Carroll O'Connor (Actor)

Reviews of Carroll O'Connor Movies

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Movies starring Carroll O'Connor have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.

Lonely are the Brave - released in 1962 - is Carroll O'Connor's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 66 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Carroll O'Connor is By Love Possessed - released in 1961 - with a score of 46% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) best known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted working man Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971 to 1979) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979 to 1983). O'Connor later starred in the NBC television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, where he played 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.

Carroll O'Connor has acted in films with Leoda Richards, Dick Cherney, Murray Pollack and Bernard Sell.

Carroll O'Connor has worked with these film directors: Bonnie Hunt, Alan Smithee, Don Siegel and John Sturges.