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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
Filmography

Death of a Gunfighter

1969
as Lester Locke

Hawaii

1966
as Charles Bromley

Point Blank

1967
as Brewster

Lonely Are the Brave

1962
as Hinton

Belle Sommers

1962
as Mr. Griffith

A Different Approach

1978

For Love of Ivy

1968
as Frank Austin

The GLO Friends Save Christmas

1985
as Santa Claus (voice)

Warning Shot

1967
as Paul Jerez

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

1966
as General Bolt

Parrish

1961
as Fireman

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

1966
as General Parker

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

Ride a Northbound Horse

1969
as Mr. Davis

36 Hours to Die

1999
as Jack 'Balls' O'Malley

Kelly's Heroes

1970
as Major General Colt

The Devil's Brigade

1968
as Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter

Cleopatra

1963
as Casca

Return to Me

2000
as Marty O'Reilly

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

Law and Disorder

1974
as Willie

Marlowe

1969
as Lt. Christy French

Writer

Movie Man, Myth and Titans 1981
Movie Brass 1985

Producer

Movie Brass 1985