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John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker (for which he won four Emmy Awards), the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979) and its continuation, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983).
O'Connor was born in Rome, Italy. When he was six days old, he was adopted by Carroll O'Connor and his wife, Nancy (née Fields). Carroll was in Rome filming Cleopatra. [2] He was named after Carroll's younger brother, who had died in a motorcycle crash in 1961. When he was 16, O'Connor was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Carroll's son and series cast member Hugh O'Connor died by suicide nearly two months before the fourth film aired, having been struggling with a substance abuse issues since his teen years. [11] When the film was broadcast in its original, two-hour format, a black screen was added in between the intro tag and the opening title; it read "In ...
Stapleton (left) beside Carroll O'Connor on the set of All in the Family. Stapleton played the role of Edith in All in the Family, which premiered in 1971. [5] The show was originally broadcast on the CBS network for nine seasons from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979, for a total of 205 episodes. The role earned her three Emmys [7] and two ...
From left: Rob Reiner, Jean Stapleton, Carroll O'Connor and Sally Struthers. “Bea Arthur comes in and she’s a force of nature,” Struthers told the hosts of the star, who died in 2009 at age 86 .
Actress and producer Penny Marshall died of complications from the disease in 2018 at age 75, as did country singer Waylon Jennings, musician Curtis Mayfield, actor Carroll O’Connor and jazz ...
The actress claimed that White, who died in 2021 at age 99, ... Norman and his wife would have dinner parties,” she said. Although the other stars of the show — Carroll O’Connor, ...
Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, a blue-collar worker whose ignorant stubbornness tends to cause his arguments to self-destruct. By the time of Archie Bunker's Place, however, the character has mellowed somewhat and is no longer as explicitly bigoted as he had been during the first seasons of All in the Family, even agreeing to go into ...