Born in Fresno, California, U.S., he began his career with the stage name Touch Connors, playing small roles in movies such as "Sudden Fear" (1951) with Joan Crawford and "Island in the Sky" (1953) with John Wayne. He then starred in four movies of filmmaker Roger Corman: "Five Guns West" (1955), "Day the World Ended" (1955), "The Oklahoma Woman" (1956), "Swamp Women" (1956). Connors also played the role of "Amalekite herder", in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). He also starred in some low-budget movies like "Voodoo Woman" (1957) and "Suicide Battalion" (1958), both directed by Edward L. Cahn. In 1966, Mike Connors starred in the western "Stagecoach" directed by Gordon Douglas. In the 1970s and 1980s, Connors was working exclusively for television, with the exceptions of movies "Avalanche Express" (1979) "Nightkill" (1980), and "Too Scared to Scream" (1985) directed by Toby Lo Bianco, Connors plays the role of Lt. Alex Dinardo, who must investigate a series of crimes that occurred in luxurious buildings in New York City. His last films were "Downtown Heat" (1994) and "Gideon" (1999)