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As always, the further we go back in Hollywood history,
the more that fact and legend become intertwined. It's hard to say where the truth really lies.
August 2, 1924
John
Carroll O'Connor was born.
Actor,
producer,
and director
whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the
role of Major General Colt in the 1970 cult movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as
the bigoted workingman 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 1980s NBC
television crime drama In
the Heat of the Night, where he played the role of Sheriff
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.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
Stay Tuned Tony Figueroa |
I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson. Read the full "Pre-ramble"
Monday, July 31, 2017
This Week in Television History: July 2017 PART V
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