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John Carroll O’Connor Wiki Biography

John Carroll O’Connor was born on the 2nd August 1924, in Manhattan, New York City USA, of American and Irish descent, and died on the 21st June 2001 in Culver City, California USA. He was an actor, director and producer, who starred in a number of film and TV titles, including “Kelly’s Heroes” (1970), “All In The Family” (1971-79), “Archie Bunker’s Place” (1979-83), and “In The Heat Of The Night” (1988-95). His career was active from 1951 to 2000.

Have you ever wondered how rich was Carroll O’Connor? According to authoritative sources, it was estimated that the total size of Carroll’s net worth was equal to $20 million, which was accumulated through his successful career as a professional actor. Another source of his wealth was his ownership of a restoration shop.

Carroll O’Connor was the eldest son of Edward Joseph O’Connor, who was a lawyer, and his wife, Elise Patricia O’Connor. After matriculation, he went to Wake Forest University in North Carolina, but soon quit education because of the World War II. He was rejected by the U.S. Navy, so he served in the United States Merchant Marine Academy. When the war was finished, he enrolled at the University of Montana-Missoula, where he worked as an editor for a student newspaper, but he didn’t graduate there, as he moved to Ireland where he finished his studies at the University of Dublin.

Carroll`s career began in the 1950s, appearing on stage throughout European cities, including Dublin, London, and Paris. However, his breakout came in the late 1950s in the Broadway production of “Ulysses”, which certainly helped his career as he then made a screen debut in the TV series “Sunday Showcase” (1960). During the 1960s, Carroll made numerous brief appearances in TV series such as “The Untouchables” (1961-1962), “The Naked City” (1962), “The Defenders” (1962-1963), “Dr. Kildare” (1962-1965), “Profiles in Courage” (1965), among others, which helped boost his career and net worth. He also made several notable appearances in films “Point Blank” (1967) with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson, “Death Of A Gunfighter” (1968), and in the TV series “All In The Family” (1968-1979), the latter increasing his net worth by a large margin. After “All In The Family” finished, his character Archie got his own series “Archie Bunker’s Place” (1979-1983), in which Carroll reprised his role, which also increased his net worth.

In the 1970s, Carroll appeared in films too, such as “Kelly`s Heroes” (1970) with Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas, “Law And Disorder” (1974), “Of Thee I Sing” (1972), and “The Last Hurrah” (1977), among others, all of which added a lot to his net worth.

Nothing changed much for Carroll in the next decade, as he had several notable roles, including those as Chief William O. ‘Bill’ Gillespie in the crime drama TV series “In the Heat Of The Night” (1988-1995), and he also voiced Santa in the animated film “The GLO Friends Save Christmas” (1985).

As he was focused on the series “In The Heat Of The Night”, Carroll didn`t look for new roles, however, after it had ended he landed the role of Jacob Gordon in another TV series, entitled “Party Of Five” (1996). The same year he was selected for the role of Gus Temple in the TV series “Mad About You”, and latterly made appearances in films “Gideon” (1998), and “Return To Me” (2000), which also increased his net worth by a large margin.

Thanks to his skills, Carroll received several prestigious nominations and awards, including a Golden Globe Award in category Best TV Actor – Comedy or Musical for his work on “All In The Family”, and 10 Golden Globe Award nominations for “All In The Family”, and “In The Heat Of The Night”. Furthermore, he won six Primetime Emmy Awards, five for “All In The Family”, and one for “In The Heat Of The Night”, among many other awards. Speaking about his personal life, Carroll O’Connor was married to Nancy Fields from 1951 untilhe passed away from a heart attack caused by diabetes, at the age of 76 in 2001. They had an adopted son.

IMDB Wikipedia “Archie Bunker’s Place” (1979-1983) “In the Heat of the Night” (1988-1995) “All in the Family” (1971-1979) “Law And Disorder” (1974) “Mad About You” (1992 – 1999) “Of Thee I Sing” (1972) $20 million 1948-09-10 American Carroll O’connor Net Worth Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1972) Hugh O’Connor Kelly’s Heroes (1970) Miscellaneous Crew Nancy Fields O’Connor Peabody Award (1981) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series The Last Hurrah (1977)

John Carroll O’Connor Quick Info

John Carroll O’Connor Trademarks

1. Gruff voice
2. New York City accent.
3. Played the roles that reflected upon liberalism or aggressiveness.
4. On All in the Family (1971) he always smoked his cigars in his favorite woven Wingback Chair.

John Carroll O’Connor Quotes

• [on auditioning for Archie Bunker] I was approached in 1968 and [a producer had] secured the rights to a show that was a big success in England and it was called ‘Till Death Us Do Part,’ I thought we’d never do a show that outrageous in this country. And I wanted to do something outrageous. I didn’t think we’d last a month.
• [At one point, All in the Family (1971), was getting cancelled]: I thought that the public would kick us off the air, because of this egregious guy. No. They loved … they knew him.
• [Who moved on with his life after his son’s death]: The biggest part of my life was the acquiring and the loss of a son. I mean, nothing else was as important as that.
• [on his popularity while playing the fifty-something Archie Bunker on All in the Family]: Archie is what he is. He is over 50 and you can’t expect any turnover in his character. He might modify his racist language in the house because he grows tired of his wife and kids jumping all over him. I am not playing Archie with any axe to grind. As I have said before, Archie is made up of persons who really exist. I have seen them.
• [In 1974]: Television audiences are seeing more of the good and admirable qualities of blacks than they have ever seen before. Some of these shows are causing the fears that underlie prejudice to be a bit dissipated.
• [Who told his congressman, who got elected, despite the fact that he was Polish]: The Polacks voted for him to get even with the Irish for tellin’ all those Polish jokes; the Italians voted for him to prove it was the Irish; and the colored people voted for him ’cause they like Polish jokes and they thought he was the best one yet.
• [Who cursed one critic vehemently, called critics in general, jerks]: I concluded too many of you don’t know what you’re doing.
• [When approached to do The Last Hurrah]: I say okay, but I wanted to see the Tracy movie. So I did. I didn’t think I could repeat what I saw on the screen, so I said, ‘Let me see the old screenplay … maybe what was on the screen wasn’t the screenplay.’
• [In 1972]: It happens everytime I wear this here suit. I get a helluva hand.
• [In 1976]: I’m going to keep the bigotry Edwin O’Connor had in the novel, but I’m going to play it as an undertone rather than as the main theme.
• [When asked to explain the remarks, he replied]: I think you all have been in a position where you all have said something out of pure emotion that is not all true. There are semi-literates. They write bad grammar. A lot of them copy what other people write and add a little twist of their own so that it appears the local boy has the inside track.
• Nothing will give me any peace. I’ve lost a son. And I’ll go to my grave without any peace over that.
• Get between your kids and drugs any way you can if you want to save the kid’s life.
• People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls-poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
• Get between your kid and drugs any way you can.

John Carroll O’Connor Important Facts

• $200,000 per episode
• He was the surrogate grandfather of Tracy Reiner, Rob Reiner’s adopted daughter.
• In his later years, he still received mail from fans. He answered every single piece of mail personally. When asked by friends why he didn’t hire an assistant to answer the mail for him, he simply said that it was the least he could do.
• Met Jonathan Harris at the University of Montana’s Student Theater Company, where they were both drama students. Coincidentally, O’Connor lost the role of Dr. Zachary Smith on Lost in Space (1965) to Harris, at the auditions.
• Began his television show All in the Family (1971) at age 46.
• Former college classmate of Jonathan Harris.
• Had inherited a knack for learning languages from his mother.
• Had encouraged his All in the Family (1971) co-star, Rob Reiner, to write several episodes in his early career.
• O’Connor underwent heart bypass surgery that required him to miss the last four episodes of the second season of In the Heat of the Night (1988).
• Director Peter Bogdanovich cautioned him not to talk with the fake cigarette in his mouth.
• After his role Return to Me (2000), he withdrew from acting at age 76 due to health problems. He died the following year.
• Longtime friend of Larry Hagman.
• He played the same character (Archie Bunker) on three different series: All in the Family (1971), Archie Bunker’s Place (1979) and Gloria (1982).
• Among those attending O’Connor’s 2001 funeral were “All in the Family” creator Norman Lear, AITF co-stars Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner, and Danielle Brisebois from “Archie Bunker’s Place”, as well as Larry Hagman, Martin Sheen, Don Rickles, Dom DeLuise, Carl Reiner, comic couple Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, and Governor Jerry Brown. The Catholic ceremony was presided over by Cardinal Roger Mahoney.
• Acting mentor and friend of Rob Reiner.
• Former Norman Lear contract player, Marla Gibbs, along with her daughter, Angela Elayne Gibbs had both worked with him on a separate episode of In the Heat of the Night (1988). At that time, Marla’s daughter was married to the series’ cinematographer.
• Former neighbor of Robert Conrad.
• During World War II he was rejected by the United States Navy and enrolled in the United States Merchant Marine Academy for a short time. After leaving that institution, he became a merchant seaman.
• While attending the University of Montana, he joined the student theater company.
• His uncle, Hugh O’Connor, was a reporter for the New York Times.
• Moved to Los Angeles, California in 1961.
• Graduated from the University of Montana in 1951 with degrees in both Drama and English.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
• Actors Larry Hagman, Carl Reiner (Rob Reiner’s real-life father), Martin Sheen, Richard Crenna, Norman Lear, Danielle Brisbois’ and ex-classmate Don Rickles all attended his funeral.
• Began smoking while working on the stage production of ‘The Big Knife,’ a habit he would perform up until 1989, when the doctors ordered him to quit.
• The eldest of three children.
• O’Connor traveled to Ireland, midway through college, and decided to finish school in the land of his ancestors. His future wife, Nancy, followed him there.
• Became best friends with Jean Stapleton from 1962 until his death on June 21, 2001.
• Before he was a successful actor, he met and used to work with a young unfamiliar actor Larry Hagman. Carroll was working as an assistant stage manager for the Broadway play God and Kate Murphy, in which Hagman starred.
• Was enrolled at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, but dropped out when the United States entered World War II.
• Before he was a successful actor, he used to write an editorial for the Advocate, as a little boy.
• His wife Nancy O’Connor was an art major at the University of Montana.
• Childhood friend of Anne Meara.
• Didn’t start acting on television until he was age 36.
• Received the starring role of Archie Bunker in All in the Family (1971) after ‘Norman Lear (I)’ saw him in the movie, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966), after Mickey Rooney refused to play that character.
• He had a contract dispute with Norman Lear in 1974, hence, he missed 3 episodes of All in the Family (1971).
• On All in the Family (1971), his character lived in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, in real-life, O’Connor grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.
• Second-only to O’Connor, who was a heavy smoker, his son Hugh, was also smoking marijuana. His son was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease, where he used the drug to relieve the nausea from radiation therapy.
• Despite high ratings, his series All in the Family (1971) was canceled, in order for producer Norman Lear to propose another project just to keep O’Connor’s character going, yet, he did. He starred in the final spinoff series, Archie Bunker’s Place (1979).
• His son, Hugh O’Connor, co-starred in In the Heat of the Night (1988) with him.
• He enjoyed politics, golfing, dining, spending time with his family, traveling and reading.
• Attended the same school as: Don Rickles.
• Had appeared in almost all the episodes of All in the Family (1971) series, from 1971 to 1979, but missed 7 episodes, 3 of these, because of a contract dispute with Norman Lear.
• Met actress Jean Stapleton on an episode of The Defenders (1961), years before co-starring with him on All in the Family (1971).
• While playing Archie Bunker he always wore his wedding ring on his middle finger and not the traditional ring finger.
• Was a spokesperson for Partnership for Drug Free of America from 1993 to 1997.
• Was considered for the role of Dr. Zachary Smith on Lost in Space (1965).
• Graduated from Newtown High School in the New York City, New York, in 1942.
• His parents, Edward O’Connor was a New York City lawyer, and Elise O’Connor who educated young Carroll about his language and life.
• Of Irish descent.
• Friends with: Bea Arthur, Jean Stapleton, Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Redd Foxx, Angela Lansbury, Robert Conrad, Larry Hagman, Brian Keith, Michael Landon, Wink Martindale, Jason Wingreen, Norman Lear, James Arness, Ken Curtis, Carol Burnett, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Martin Sheen, Ernest Borgnine, Kirk Douglas, Lois Nettleton, Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett, Carl Reiner, Gene Hackman, Dan Rather, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller, Dom DeLuise, Vince Edwards, Richard Crenna, Dana Andrews, Bobby Short and Jean Simmons.
• Remained friends with Rob Reiner during and after All in the Family (1971).
• Underwent heart bypass surgery in 1989 and angioplasty to prevent a stroke in 1998.
• Listed as #20 on TV Land’s Top 50 TV Icons Countdown. He beat out Alan Alda, George Clooney, Michael J. Fox, and Kermit the Frog.
• Best remembered by the public for his starring roles as Archie Bunker in All in the Family (1971) and as Chief Off. Bill Gillespie on In the Heat of the Night (1988).
• Attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC for at least one semester prior to enrolling at University of Montana.
• His son, Hugh, died on what would have been his third wedding anniversary. He was in the process of reconciling with his wife at the time of his death.
• He adopted his only child, Hugh, while in Rome filming Cleopatra (1963). He named him after his own brother, who was killed years before in a motorcycle accident.
• Has one grandson, Sean Carroll O’Connor.
• As executive producer of In the Heat of the Night (1988), he often asked longtime friends and musicians to guest-star. Two of his favorites were Miss Jean Simmons and Bobby Short. He gave long-time friend, Lois Nettleton, a significant recurring role in the first few seasons.
• In real life, he was the total opposite of his “Archie Bunker” character. While Bunker was loud, had limited education and was staunchly conservative, O’Connor was a quiet, cultured and well-educated man whose political leanings were very liberal. In fact, his All in the Family (1971) co-star Rob Reiner once remarked that O’Connor was even more liberal than Reiner himself.
• His only son, Hugh O’Connor, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, despondent over the disintegration of his life resulting from his long term drug addiction. He was speaking with his father on the phone at the time. O’Connor did a public service announcement shortly before his death about the perils of drug abuse.
• Archie Bunker, O’Connor’s character on All in the Family (1971), was ranked #24 in TV Guide’s list of the “50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time” [20 June 2004 issue].
• Carroll O’Connor died on June 21, 2001. Passed away 37 days before what would have been his golden wedding anniversary with Nancy Fields.
• Performed the “Archie Bunker” role for a remarkable 12 years and 307 episodes (All in the Family (1971) and Archie Bunker’s Place (1979)).
• Was so displeased with CBS’s axing of Archie Bunker’s Place (1979) in 1983, without a chance to film an actual series finale, that he vowed to never work for the network again. (Nonetheless, his late-1980s NBC series, In the Heat of the Night (1988) later moved to CBS in 1992.)
• Was a brother of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity
• Mickey Rooney was Norman Lear’s first choice to play Archie in the pilot of All in the Family (1971). Rooney had reservations about the character, so he refused.
• He passed away on the same day that blues legend, John Lee Hooker did. Coincidentally, their stars are right next to one another on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Was fluent in Italian.
• He met his wife, Nancy, while both were performing in the play “Life with Father” at the University of Montana.
• In the early 1950s, while trying to launch his acting career, he worked as a substitute high school English teacher in order to pay the rent.
• Said that he came up with the address for the Bunker family residence (704 Hauser Street) when he was driving to work in L.A. He happened to find himself on Hauser Blvd (few blocks from CBS TV City) and thought the name sounded like part of Queens, New York where Archie was supposed to live.
• Auditioned for the role of The Skipper on Gilligan’s Island (1964).
• He was instrumental in the passage of the Drug Dealers Civil Liability Act in California. The Act states that citizens can sue drug dealers whom they feel are responsible for the drug-related deaths of family members. The Act came about as a result of his son’s drug-related suicide.
• Lost his restaurant in the Northridge earthquake. [January 1994]
• Attended college in Ireland and began his career on the stage, playing in Dublin, London and Paris before making his Broadway debut in 1958.
• His favorite expressions on All in the Family (1971) were “Dingbat” and “Stifle” to his wife, Edith, and “Meathead” to his son-in-law, Michael.
• Father of Hugh O’Connor.
• Earned a reported $250,000 a week for “All in the Family” in 1980.
• Spent some time at the Juilliard School of Fine Arts as an acting and dialogue professor.
• In 1997, he and his wife, also a University of Montana graduate, donated $1 million to the University of Montana’s Center for the Rocky Mountain West, a regional studies and public policy institute. The Center was renamed “Carroll and Nancy Fields O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West” in September of 1997.
• While attending University of Montana, O’Connor was an associate editor for the college newspaper, the Kaimin. In 1949, he resigned his editing position in protest to the pressure from the campus administration that lead to confiscation and destruction of an issue of the paper, which carried a cartoon depicting the Montana Board of Education as rats gnawing at a bag of university funds.
• Had completed part of his undergraduate studies at the University of Montana before returning to earn a master’s degree in speech in 1956.

John Carroll O’Connor Filmography

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