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John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001), known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades. A life-member of The Actors Studio, O'Connor first attracted attention as Major General Colt in the 1970 movie ''Kelly's Heroes''. The following year he found fame as the lovable 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/CBS 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 Buchman (Helen Hunt) on ''Mad About You''. In 1996, O'Connor was ranked #38 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. ==Early life== Carroll O'Connor, an Irish American, was the eldest of three sons. He was born on August 2, 1924, in Manhattan, New York, to Edward Joseph O'Connor,〔 a lawyer, and his wife, Elise Patricia O'Connor. Both of his brothers became doctors: Hugh, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1961, and Robert, a psychiatrist in New York City.〔 O'Connor spent much of his youth in Elmhurst and Forest Hills, Queens, the same borough in which his character Archie Bunker would later live.〔Severo, Richard. ("Carroll O'Connor, Embodiment of Social Tumult as Archie Bunker, Dies at 76" ), ''The New York Times'', June 22, 2001. Accessed November 18, 2007. "The O'Connors lived well, at first in the Bronx, later in a larger apartment in Elmhurst, Queens, and finally in a nice single-family home in Forest Hills, Queens, then an enclave for people of means."〕 In 1941, Carroll O'Connor enrolled at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, but dropped out when the United States entered World War II. During World War II he was rejected by the United States Navy and enrolled in the United States Merchant Marine Academy for a short time. After leaving that institution, he became a merchant seaman and served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II . After the war, O'Connor attended the University of Montana-Missoula, where he met Nancy Fields, who would later become his wife. He also worked at the Montana Kaimin student newspaper as an editor. At the University of Montana, he joined Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sigma Phi Epsilon -- Prominent Alumni )〕 O'Connor did not take any drama courses as an undergraduate at the University of Montana. He later left that university to help his younger brother Hugh get into medical school in Ireland, where Carroll completed his studies at the University College Dublin. It was there that Carroll began his acting career.〔 After O'Connor's fiancee, Nancy Fields, graduated from the University of Montana in 1951 with degrees in drama and English, she sailed to Ireland to meet Carroll, who was visiting his brother, Hugh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=University of Montana )〕 The couple married in Dublin on July 28, 1951.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carroll O'Connor Biography (1924-2001) )〕 In 1956, O'Connor returned to Missoula to earn a master's degree in speech.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carroll O'Connor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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