Carroll O'Connor
Also Known As: John Carroll O'Connor, Matt Harris
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) best 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carroll O'Connor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 02, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 21, 2001
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Marlowe
Overview: Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-19
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Return to Me
Overview: It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten instantly not with his date but with the sharp-witted waitress. Everything seems to be going great until an unbelievable truth is revealed, one that could easily break both of their hearts for good.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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Kelly's Heroes
Overview: A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Genres: Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-22
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Cleopatra
Overview: Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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The Citadel
Overview: The good doctor is on trial before the British Medical Association Council, if he is found guilty, he will no longer be allowed to practice medicine. The story unfolds through flashbacks which depict his career and his subsequent downfall.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-19
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Point Blank
Overview: After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Overview: A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-31
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Hawaii
Overview: Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-10
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Lonely are the Brave
Overview: A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-24
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In Harm's Way
Overview: A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-06
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Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking
Overview: Telecast December 1972, DON RICKLES: ALIVE AND KICKING was a huge ratings extravaganza for the network, especially when you consider the guest stars on Rickle's comedy special: Carroll O'Connor, Harvey Korman, Johnny Carson, Bob Newhart, Anne Meara and Don Adams!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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For Love of Ivy
Overview: A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine and dine her, but who won't marry her, thinking that this will distract her from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-17
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Overview: From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-28
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Waterhole #3
Overview: After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried. He plans to retrieve it, but others are searching for it too.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-10
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Death of a Gunfighter
Overview: In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-08
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Not With My Wife, You Don't
Overview: During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
Overview: DVD featurette documenting the success of "All in the Family".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-09
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Warning Shot
Overview: Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-18
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By Love Possessed
Overview: An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Law and Disorder
Overview: In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-09
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Doctors' Wives
Overview: The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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The GLO Friends Save Christmas
Overview: Blanche, the Wicked Witch of the North Pole, is jealous of Santa Claus. She imprisons him and his reindeer in an icy cage on a raging river, so they can't deliver their presents on Christmas Eve. Her timid sidekick, Moose the unimaginatively-named moose, tries to stop her, but she zaps him far away with her magic. The Glo Friends find out what she's done, and they set out to try and save Santa. They rescue Moose from a tree along the way, and Blanche tries to imprison them in ice flowers. But her schemes fail, as they reach Santa anyway, and face her in a final showdown to rescue him.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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The Last Laugh
Overview: Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-18
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A Different Approach
Overview: An all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit and watch the film Michael Keaton's character's assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes "a different approach" by combining several approaches--most of them suggested by Hollywood personalities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Gideon
Overview: Gideon Dobbs is young, simple-minded man who has never stopped dreaming. He checks into a retirement home where he finds the residents have lost their lust for life. Through his innocence he changes their lives and teaches them that each day is a precious gift. They get back their self-esteem and their lust for life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-26
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The Father Clements Story
Overview: In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catholic church during his fight to adopt a troubled teen and save him from life on the streets.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-13
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Fear No Evil
Overview: A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-03
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36 Hours to Die
Overview: Treat Williams stars in this drama as the owner of a brewing company who refuses to knuckle under when gangsters make threats against him, his business, and his family. With the help of his wife and his uncle, he's able to outsmart and outmuscle the crooks. Carroll O'Connor and Kim Cattrall are featured in the supporting cast.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-11
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Parrish
Overview: Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-04
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In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice
Overview: When a serial killer of women is on the loose in Sparta, all the clues lead Sheriff Gillespie and Forbes to the home of the wealthy Judge Walker.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
Overview: All eyes are on Sparta after an internationally renowned actress arrives unexpectedly in the rural Mississippi town—and with a killer secret.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-09
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In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
Overview: The Sparta police investigate allegations of child abuse in a religious cult run by a charismatic leader, leading to a tense, and deadly, stand-off.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-11
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In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me
Overview: When a former cop marries a wealthy widow, his ex-girlfriend sees an opportunity for blackmail. But their plan to keep her quiet and out of their lives does not exactly go as planned.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-16
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A Fever in the Blood
Overview: A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their own political ambitions. Director Vincent Sherman's 1961 drama stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Angie Dickinson, Herbert Marshall, Jesse White, Parley Baer, Carroll O'Connor, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Rhodes Reason and Louise Lorimer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-28
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The Last Hurrah
Overview: The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-16
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Lad: A Dog
Overview: Remember when your favorite face in the world had a wet nose? Eight-year-old Angela Clure is just discovering the special bond that comes with a special canine friend. And through the joy, tragedy and triumph to come, she'll learn a lot about growing up too.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-02
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Parrish
Overview: Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-04
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The Devil's Brigade
Overview: At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-15
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Belle Sommers
Overview: A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-30
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Convicted
Overview: Fact-based story about a Tennessee letter carrier who was falsely convicted of a rape. However, his legal problems continue even after the real rapist confesses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-12
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Ride a Northbound Horse
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Cav Rand purchases a racehorse and trains him into a winner, but a con artist is plotting to get the stallion away from the innocent Cav.
Genres: Western Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-16
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Brass
Overview: The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
Overview: Gillepsie's term as County Sheriff is coming to an end, and his enemies have found a local businessman, Kerry Madigan, who has high political aspiration, to run against him. They even attempt to enlist Forbes' support and the support of the local press in painting an unfavorable picture of Gillepsie. Meanwhile, the police suspect Frank Cole, one of Madigan's employees, of murdering a pregnant woman. When they request a warrant to test Cole's blood for a DNA match of the dead woman's baby, the judge, who respects Madigan and his employees, is unwilling to approve it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-17
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Of Thee I Sing
Overview: CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing in then-current CBS television series.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-24
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All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-16
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