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Biography of Carroll O'ConnorName: Carroll O'ConnorBirth Date: August 2, 1924 Death Date: June 21, 2001 Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States of America Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: actor, producer, director, writer Carroll O'Connor Five-time Emmy award-winning actor Carroll O'Connor (1924-2001) was best known for playing Archie Bunker, the big-hearted bigot on the groundbreaking 1970s television comedy All in the Family.Early YearsCarroll O'Connor was born in the Bronx, New York, on August 2, 1924. He was the eldest of three sons of a lawyer and schoolteacher raised in an Irish Catholic household. The O'Connors weathered the years of the Great Depression in comfort, living in their single-family home in Forest Hills, Queens, at the time a wealthy neighborhood. His father was a successful attorney and his two brothers became doctors.O'Connor was a poor student who later attributed his lackluster academic performance to being pushed ahead a year in school. In his memoirs, he described how he skipped kindergarten and entered first grade at the age of five: "Thereafter I became impossible to teach and nobody was comfortable with me." In 1941 O'Connor enrolled at Wake Forest …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…his final years. He lost a toe to complications from diabetes and underwent gall bladder surgery. He also had a coronary artery bypass operation in 1989. His last project was the role of Minnie Driver's grandfather in the movie Return to Me in 2000.Despite his well-rounded repertoire, O'Connor will be remembered for his indelible role as Archie Bunker. O'Connor said in a 1994 interview that the character of Archie "wasn't even close" to who he was as a person. Still, the actor conceded, "I'll never play a better part than Archie. He was the best character, the most fulfilling character, and I never thought it was going to develop that way. There's no role that can top that." Further Reading Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, Volume 27, Gale Group, 2000.O'Connor, Carroll, I Think I'm Outta Here, Simon & Schuster, 1998.Chicago Tribune, June 22, 2001.Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2001.New York Times, June 22, 2001.Washington Post, June 22, 2001. |