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Carroll O'Connor

Highest Rated: 93% Point Blank (1967)

Lowest Rated: 20% Doctors' Wives (1971)

Birthday: Aug 2, 1924

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Carroll O'Connor's apprenticeship as an actor was long; he spent many years as a substitute schoolteacher living with his wife in cold-water flats awaiting the "big break." He was well into his thirties when steady, albeit supporting, work came as an actor. But at age 46, Carroll O'Connor became Archie Bunker, the endearing bigot who grew to accept diversity (somewhat) on the ground-breaking CBS series, "All in the Family." When the series premiered in January 1971, audiences did not quite know what to make of it--a sitcom which followed the lives of a conservative, loading dock foreman, his "dingbat" wife, daughter and liberal son-in-law. The premise was typical TV fare, but the content was surely not: Archie Bunker's bigoted views would be challenged by his daughter and son-in-law, and often by his good-hearted wife. Even if audiences and the nation took awhile to swallow sitcom storylines dealing with rape, affirmative action, gender debates, and integration, they fell in love with O'Connor. Not only did "All in the Family" become CBS'--and the nation's--top show for five seasons, but O'Connor won four Emmy Awards and eventually took de facto creative control of the series.

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Highest-Rated Movies

93% 83% Point Blank
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93% 85% Lonely Are the Brave
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83% 54% Death of a Gunfighter
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79% 88% Kelly's Heroes
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71% 52% Marlowe
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70% 54% Hawaii
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62% 79% Return to Me
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57% 68% The Devil's Brigade
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56% 67% Cleopatra Watchlist
50% 38% By Love Possessed
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Return to Me 62% 79% 2000 Marty O'Reilly Actor 36 Hours to Die 1999 Jack 'Balls' O'Malley Actor Gideon 65% 1999 Leo Barnes Actor In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along With Me 100% 1995 Bill Gillespie Actor In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound 1995 Sheriff William O. "Bill" Gillespie Actor, Executive Producer In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl? 1994 Sheriff William O. 'Bill' Gillespie Actor, Screenwriter, Executive Producer In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice 1994 Sheriff William O. 'Bill' Gillespie Actor, Executive Producer In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life 1994 Sheriff William O. "Bill" Gillespie Actor, Executive Producer In the Heat of the Night 1988 Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie Actor The Father Clements Story 1987 Actor Convicted 1986 Lewis May Actor Brass 1985 Frank Nolan Actor The Last Hurrah 1977 Frank Skeffington Actor Law and Disorder 40% 40% 1974 Willie Actor Of Thee I Sing 1972 John P. Wintergreen Actor Doctors' Wives 20% 1971 Dr. Joe Gray Actor Kelly's Heroes 79% 88% 1970 Maj. Gen. Colt Actor Death of a Gunfighter 83% 54% 1969 Lester Locke Actor Marlowe 71% 52% 1969 Lt. Christy French Actor Fear No Evil 1969 Myles Donovan Actor Ride a Northbound Horse 1969 Actor The Devil's Brigade 57% 68% 1968 Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter Actor For Love of Ivy 43% 52% 1968 Frank Austin Actor Waterhole No. 3 56% 1967 Sheriff John H. Copperud Actor Point Blank 93% 83% 1967 Brewster Actor
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