Carroll O'Connor 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, O'Connor first attracted attention as Major General Colt in the 1970 film "Kelly's Heroes". The following year, he found fame as the bigoted working man Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms "All in the Family" (1971–1979) and "Archie Bunker's Place" (1979–1983). O'Connor later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama "In the Heat of the Night" from 1988 to 1995, where he played
Helena Carroll Les Moonves, now president of CBS, his first job in the biz), Carroll moved to Los Angeles in the late 1960s and appeared in numerous films and television programs, including John Huston's Academy Award nominated film "The Dead", "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" starring Robert Mitchum, "The Jerk", directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin, "The Mambo Kings", the Warren Beatty remake of "Love Affair", the 1979 NBC mini-series "Backstairs at the White House", and such television programs as "General Hospital", "The Edge of Night", "Loving Couples", "Laverne and Shirley", "Murder She Wrote", etc. Carroll resided in Los Angeles,