john carroll o'connor played archie bunker on all in the family.
john carroll o'connor played archie bunker on all in the family.
who played archie bunker on all in the family?
john carroll o'connor
john carroll o'connor (august 2, 1924 – june 21, 2001) was an american actor, producer, and director whose television career spanned four decades. a lifelong member of the actors studio, in 1970 o'connor found widespread fame as bigoted working man archie bunker, the main character in the cbs television sitcoms "all in the family" (1971-79) and its spinoff, "archie bunker's place" (1979-83). o'connor later starred in the nbc/cbs television crime drama "in the heat of the night" (1988-95), where he played the role of sparta, mississippi police chief william (bill) gillespie. at the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of jamie buchman (helen hunt) on "mad about you".
carroll o'connor
archibald "archie" bunker is a fictional character from the 1970s american television sitcom "all in the family" and its spin-off "archie bunker's place", played by carroll o'connor. bunker, a main character of the series, is a world war ii veteran, blue-collar worker, and family man. described as a "lovable bigot", he was first seen by the american public when "all in the family" premiered on january 12, 1971, where he was depicted as the head of the bunker family. in 1979, the show was retooled and renamed "archie bunker's place"; it finally went off the air in 1983. bunker lived at the fictional address of 704 hauser street in the borough of queens, in new york city.
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