Carroll O Connor

Carroll O’Connor (known as John Carroll O'Connor) is a veteran TV actor who had stolen hearts of audiences and critics through his magnificent performances in American sitcoms and Television films. He has been ranked as one of the greatest TV stars of all Time. As per the bi-weekly magazine TV Guide, Carroll was positioned in the top list of 38 actors in television world in America.

The actor too has a long and glorious career in American screen for over four decades. Born on August 2, 1924, in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , he was a drop out from his college during World War II World War II is a Malayalam information TV show on >> Read More... but soon enrolled himself in The United States Merchant Marine Academy and was a trained marine officer and served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. Meantime, he fell in love with Nancy Field and later married her.

Their relationship had lasted till his death. Carroll got his first break in acting in Broadway Theatre where he was spotted by director Burgess Meredith Oliver Burgess Meredith is professionally known as >> Read More... and acted in play Ulysses. Soon he appeared as a character actor in numerous TV series such as 'The Fugitive', 'The Eleventh Hour', 'That Girl', 'The Adventure' etc. and later became one of the highest paid actors in American TV industry. Simultaneously he got offer to act in some outstanding American movies such as ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ (1962), 'Cleopatra'( 1963), 'Waterhole No.3' (1963) and two more cult classic films ' Point Blank Click to look into! >> Read More... ' (1967) and 'Death of a Gunfighter' (1969) etc.

His turning point in his career came in 1971 when he appeared in an American Sitcom ‘All in the family’ which was aired on CBS television network, in this show, Carroll played the central character on which the whole episode revolved. He narrated the role of Archie Bunker, who was a World War-II middle-class living veteran in Queens, New York. In the year 1979, he again reprised the same character of Archie Bunker in TV sitcom 'Archie Bunker's Place' which was a spin-off and continuation of previous serial 'All in the family'. He also won several accolades for portraying the role of white police chief William Gillespie in an American drama TV series ‘In the Heat of the Night’ that was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992 and again in 1995.

For appearing in sitcom ‘In the Heat of the Night’ and ’All in the family’ he won the Golden Globe Award for best actor and Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding lead actor twice. The TV and film fraternity had even bestowed upon him the highest honor, the Sigma Phi Epsilon Citation in 1973. In 2000, he also became the star of ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’. The veteran actor had passed away on June 21, 2001, in California as he suffered a serious heart attack. He died when he was 76 years old.