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
Landmark Sitcom Season Death Us Do Part" and "Hancock's Half Hour" are missing from the BBC archives, while the episode of "Steptoe and Son", originally broadcast in colour, exists only as an off-air black & white videotape recording. Another sitcom marked for possible remake and broadcast is "Up Pompeii!". Landmark Sitcom Season Landmark Sitcom Season is a BBC project, launched in March 2016, to mark 60 years since "Hancock's Half Hour" started on BBC television. As part of ongoing celebrations throughout 2016, the BBC has commissioned new scripts for iconic British sitcoms of the last six decades. The landmark sitcom season began in