June 21, 2001
Carroll O'Connor died in Culver City, California from
a heart attack brought on by complications
from diabetes.
His
funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic
Church in Westwood,
Los Angeles, California and was
attended by All in the Family cast members Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers and Danielle Brisebois, as well as producer Norman Lear.
Actress Jean Stapleton, who played O'Connor's onscreen wife and who had been
a close friend of O'Connor's since the early 1960s, did not attend the service
due to a stage production performance commitment.
In honor of O'Connor's career, TV Land moved
an entire weekend of programming to the next week and showed a continuous
marathon of All in the Family. During the commercial breaks TV Land
also showed interview footage of O'Connor and various All in the Family actors,
producers with whom he had worked, and other associates. O'Connor's best
friend Larry Hagman and his family were also there, alongside the
surviving cast of In
the Heat of the Night,
including Alan Autry and Denise Nicholas,
who also attended the memorial. Actor Martin Sheen,
then starring on The West Wing, delivered the eulogy. O'Connor is buried at Westwood
Village Memorial Park Cemetery with
his son Hugh's cenotaph placed on his grave stone.June 27, 1966
Dark
Shadows, premiered on ABC
The gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2,
1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements. It was unprecedented in daytime television
when ghosts were introduced about six months after it began.
The series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) appeared a year into its run. Dark Shadows
also featured werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel
universe. A small company of actors
each played many roles (as actors came and went, some characters were played by
more than one actor). Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm
Marmorstein, Sam Hall, Gordon
Russell, and Violet Welles.
Dark Shadows
was distinguished by its vividly melodramatic performances, atmospheric
interiors, memorable storylines, numerous dramatic plot twists, unusually
adventurous music score, and broad and epic cosmos of characters and heroic
adventures. Now regarded as something of a classic, it continues to enjoy an
intense cult following. Although the original series ran for only five years,
its scheduling as a daily daytime drama allowed it to amass more single
episodes during its run (1,225) than most other science-fiction/fantasy genre
series produced for English-language television, including Doctor Who and the entire Star Trek television franchise. Only the paranormal soap opera Passions, with a total of 2,231 episodes, has more.
Directors Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino, and pop singer Madonna have publicly stated they are fans of the series. As
a child, Johnny Depp was so obsessed with Barnabas Collins that he wanted
to be him; he collaborated with Tim Burton on a
theatrical film adaptation which
opened in 2012, in which he plays Barnabas.
In 2004 and 2007, Dark Shadows was ranked #19
and #23 on TV Guide's Top Cult
Shows Ever
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Tony Figueroa
June 21, 2001
Carroll O'Connor died in Culver City, California from a heart attack brought on by complications from diabetes.
His funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Westwood, Los Angeles, California and was attended by All in the Family cast members Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers and Danielle Brisebois, as well as producer Norman Lear. Actress Jean Stapleton, who played O'Connor's onscreen wife and who had been a close friend of O'Connor's since the early 1960s, did not attend the service due to a stage production performance commitment.
June 27, 1966
Dark
Shadows, premiered on ABC
The series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) appeared a year into its run. Dark Shadows also featured werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel universe. A small company of actors each played many roles (as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than one actor). Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles.
Dark Shadows
was distinguished by its vividly melodramatic performances, atmospheric
interiors, memorable storylines, numerous dramatic plot twists, unusually
adventurous music score, and broad and epic cosmos of characters and heroic
adventures. Now regarded as something of a classic, it continues to enjoy an
intense cult following. Although the original series ran for only five years,
its scheduling as a daily daytime drama allowed it to amass more single
episodes during its run (1,225) than most other science-fiction/fantasy genre
series produced for English-language television, including Doctor Who and the entire Star Trek television franchise. Only the paranormal soap opera Passions, with a total of 2,231 episodes, has more.
Directors Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino, and pop singer Madonna have publicly stated they are fans of the series. As
a child, Johnny Depp was so obsessed with Barnabas Collins that he wanted
to be him; he collaborated with Tim Burton on a
theatrical film adaptation which
opened in 2012, in which he plays Barnabas.
In 2004 and 2007, Dark Shadows was ranked #19 and #23 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever
Tony Figueroa
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