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Guest Performer. Joe Gray. Doing it twice makes you an icon. His Archie was a product of a particular time, mentality, and upbringing, one that many of our parents and grandparents shared. Here are some facts about one of the most enduring stars in TV history. The Bunkers lived in Astoria. Merchant Marine Academy and served in the Merchant Marine during the war. Four years later, while filming Cleopatra in Italy with Elizabeth Taylor, Carroll and Nancy adopted a newborn baby boy.
He survived, but reportedly developed a dependency upon drugs that would plague him for the rest of his life. Instead, he entered the less-selective United States Merchant Marine Academy and became a midshipman. He eventually joined the National Maritime Union and sailed the North Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean as a merchant seaman during the late stages of the war.
After the war, O'Connor spent a few years uncertain what he wanted to do with his life. In , he left the merchant marines, returned to his mother's house in Queens, and worked for an Irish newspaper run by his family.
At the time, his father was serving a prison sentence for a fraud conviction in the Sing-Sing penitentiary in up-state New York. O'Connor considered a career in journalism and in returned to Wake Forest. He married her in In he went to Dublin, Ireland, with his brother, Hugh, and enrolled at University College, Dublin, where he studied Irish history and English literature. O'Connor finished his undergraduate studies at the National University of Ireland, earning a bachelor's degree in In the s, O'Connor performed in various plays throughout Europe.
In , O'Connor returned to New York and struggled to find acting work. For several years, he worked as a substitute teacher in the New York public school system while he earned his master's degree in education. His break came in the late s when his wife noticed a casting call for a stage production of James Joyce's Ulysses. That audition eventually landed him another role, as a Hollywood boss in the off-Broadway production of the Clifford Odets play Big Knife.
He earned a reputation as a reliable character actor and started getting movie roles. Producer Norman Lear loosely based the character of Archie Bunker on his own father. Bunker's family included his scatterbrained wife Edith, played by Jean Stapleton; their daughter Gloria, played by Sally Struthers; and her liberal and outspoken husband Mike "Meathead" Stivic, played by Rob Reiner.
O'Connor was living in Rome when he received an offer to play Archie Bunker. He was so convinced it would fail that he demanded a round-trip ticket from the producers so he could return to Italy. O'Connor disliked the pilot script, but agreed to play Archie after it was rewritten. The show was a hit, but not as big as its parent show. The show was unceremoniously canceled in , after 97 episodes, and O'Connor was angered about the show's cancellation, maintaining that the show ended with an inappropriate finale.
All told, he played Archie Bunker for 13 years in episodes. Based on the movie of the same name, the series debuted on NBC-TV early in and performed well.
Much like O'Connor himself, Gillespie was racially progressive and politically liberal. But the character of Bill Gillespie was also a smart and tough police officer who was not afraid to use his gun when the occasion called for it.
In , while working on the set, O'Connor was hospitalized and had to undergo open heart surgery, which caused him to miss four episodes at the end of the second season actor Joe Don Baker took his place in those episodes as an acting police chief. O'Connor reprised his role the following year for four two-hour In the Heat of the Night television films to critical acclaim. CD Producer and series co-star Randall Franks created the arrangement which was co-produced by series co-star Alan Autry.
Those reruns led producer Norman Lear to create a new sitcom, Sunday Dinner , which was soon cancelled. Patrick's Day tribute by MGM. In , while he was in Rome, filming Cleopatra , O'Connor and his wife adopted a six-day-old boy, naming him Hugh after O'Connor's brother who had died a year earlier. In , O'Connor's long time cigar smoking finally caught up with him.
He was admitted to the hospital for heart bypass surgery. Following his son's death, O'Connor appeared in public service announcements for Partnership for a Drug Free America www. O'Connor also successfully lobbied to get the State of California to pass legislation allowing family members of an addicted person or anyone injured by a drug dealer's actions, including employers, to sue for reimbursement for medical treatment and rehabilitation costs.
In O'Connor underwent a second surgery to clear the blockage in a cardiac artery, to reduce his risk of stroke. O'Connor died on June 21, in Culver City, California from a heart attack brought on by complications from diabetes. His funeral mass was celebrated at St.
Actress Jean Stapleton , who played O'Connor's onscreen wife and who had been a close friend of O'Connor's since the early s, did not attend the service due to a stage production performance commitment. 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.
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