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Carroll O'Connor
Known for: ActingJohn Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001), better 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.
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All in the Family
as Archie Bunker 
In the Heat of the Night
as Bill Gillespie 
Cleopatra
as Casca 
Archie Bunker's Place
as Archie Bunker 
Point Blank
as Brewster 
Kelly's Heroes
as Major General Colt 
Marlowe
as Lt. Christy French 
In Harm's Way
as Lt. Commander Burke 
The Devil's Brigade
as Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter 
Lonely are the Brave
as Hinton 
Return to Me
as Marty O'Reilly 
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
as General Parker 
Death of a Gunfighter
as Lester Locke 
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
as General Bolt 
Warning Shot
as Paul Jerez 
Hawaii
as Charles Bromley 
Waterhole #3
as Sheriff John Copperud 
Parrish
as Fireman (uncredited) 
In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice
as Bill Gillespie 
By Love Possessed
as Bernie Breck 
Law and Disorder
as Willie 
In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
as Sheriff William O. 'Bill' Gillespie 
In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
as Bill Gillespie 
In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me
as Bill Gillespie 
Don Rickles: Alive and Kicking
as Self