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Carroll O'Connor

John Carroll O'Connor was an Emmy-winning actor, best known for his iconic role as Archie Bunker in the groundbreaking 1970s television comedy All In the Family, and Archie Bunker's Place. He later starred in the NBC crime drama In the Heat of the Night in the role of southern Police Chief William (Bill) Gillespie. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of Jamie Stemple Buchman (Helen Hunt) on Mad About You.

English

Death of a Gunfighter

1969
as Lester Locke

Hawaii

1966
as Charles Bromley

Point Blank

1967
as Brewster

Belle Sommers

1962
as Mr. Griffith

For Love of Ivy

1968
as Frank Austin

Archie Bunker's Place

1979
as Archie Bunker

The GLO Friends Save Christmas

1985
as Santa Claus (voice)

Warning Shot

1967
as Paul Jerez

Parrish

1961
as Fireman

Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking

1972
as Carroll O'Connor

By Love Possessed

1961
as Bernie Breck

Pericles on 31st Street

1962
as Leonard Barsevick

36 Hours to Die

1999
as Jack 'Balls' O'Malley

Kelly's Heroes

1970
as Major General Colt

All in the Family

1971
as Archie Bunker

The Devil's Brigade

1968
as Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter

Cleopatra

1963
as Casca

Return to Me

2000
as Marty O'Reilly

In the Heat of the Night

1988
as Bill Gillespie

Gideon

1998
as Leo Barnes

Doctors' Wives

1971
as Dr. Joe Gray

A Fever in the Blood

1961
as Matt Kenan

In Harm's Way

1965
as Lt. Commander Burke

Waterhole #3

1967
as Sheriff John H. Copperud

Brass

1985
as Frank Nolan

Marlowe

1969
as Lt. Christy French

Director

Episode Archie Bunker's Place
Store Wars
1983
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Give Me Your Life (2)
1994
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Even Nice People
1993
Episode Archie Bunker's Place
Archie Alone (1)
1980
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Hatton's Turn (1)
1993
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Just A Country Boy
1991
Episode Archie Bunker's Place
Archie Alone (2)
1980
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Hatton's Turn (2)
1993
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Discovery
1992
Episode Archie Bunker's Place
Bosom Partners
1979
Episode Archie Bunker's Place
The Cook
1979

Writer

Episode In the Heat of the Night
Leftover Man (1)
1993
Movie Man, Myth and Titans 1981
Episode Archie Bunker's Place
Murray's Daughter
1980
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Poor Relations
1994
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Citizen Trundel (1)
1990
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Leftover Man (2)
1993
Episode In the Heat of the Night
First Girl
1989
Episode In the Heat of the Night
The Landlord
1992
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Give Me Your Life (1)
1994
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Give Me Your Life (2)
1994
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Even Nice People
1993
Episode In the Heat of the Night
A Correct Settling
1993
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Ches and the Grand Lady
1994
Episode In the Heat of the Night
King's Ransom
1990
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Hatton's Turn (1)
1993
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Just A Country Boy
1991
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Hatton's Turn (2)
1993
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Random's Child
1992
Episode In the Heat of the Night
No Other Road
1991
Episode In the Heat of the Night
A Turning
1991
Episode In the Heat of the Night
A Problem Too Personal
1990
Episode In the Heat of the Night
When the Music Stopped
1992
Movie Brass 1985
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Ruda's Awakening
1991

Producer

Movie Brass 1985

Guest Star

Episode Naked City
Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud
1962
Episode Mission: Impossible
The Trial
1967
Episode C.P.O. Sharkey
Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking
1972
Episode Maude
Cousin Maude's Visit
1971
Episode Gunsmoke
The Wrong Man
1966
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Carroll O'Connor
1973
Episode Gunsmoke
Major Glory
1967
Episode The Untouchables
Power Play
1961
Episode Mad About You
Jamie's Parents
1996
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Tom Hanks, Carroll O'Connor, Ron Perlman
1989
Episode The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
Show 7 - Harvey Korman, Glenn Ford, Carroll O'Connor, Robert Merrill
1971
Episode The Wild Wild West
The Night of the Ready-Made Corpse
1966
Episode Stoney Burke
Web of Fear
1963
Episode The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
Show 9 - Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Jimmy Durante
1972
Episode Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Long Live the King
1964
Episode The Jacksons
Guest Star: Carrol O'Connor
1977
Episode East Side/West Side
Age of Consent
1963
Episode That Girl
A Tenor's Loving Care
1967
Episode The Outer Limits
Controlled Experiment
1964
Episode Tony Orlando And Dawn
Carroll O'Connor, International Children's Choir of America
1974
Episode The Untouchables
Bird in the Hand
1962
Episode I Spy
It's All Done with Mirrors
1966
Episode Dr. Kildare
The Burning Sky
1962
Episode Slattery's People
A Sitting Duck Named Slattery
1965
Episode Adventures in Paradise
Hangman's Island
1960
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Carol Burnett, Carroll O'Connor, and Burt Reynolds
1971
Episode The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Green Opal Affair
1964
Episode Ben Casey
Behold! They Walk an Ancient Road
1962
Episode Dr. Kildare
The Time Buyers
1965
Episode Naked City
Spectre of the Rose Street Gang
1962
Episode The Time Tunnel
The Last Patrol
1966
Episode The Fugitive
Flight from the Final Demon
1964
Episode Gloria
Gloria, The First Day
1970