Biography
Friends and Family
Nancy Fields O`Connor (Dec. 13,1929-Present)
(Wife)
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Sean Carroll O`Connor (May 18,1993-Present)
(Grandson)
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Angela Clayton O`Connor (Mar. 3,1969-Present)
(Daughter-in-law)
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Hugh O`Connor (April 7,1962-Mar.28,1995)
(Son)
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Nothing will give me any peace. I`ve lost a son. And I`ll go to my grave without any peace over that. Get between your kids and drugs any way you can if you want to save the kid`s life.
"People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls-poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad."
"Get between your kid and drugs any way you can."
I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he`s a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.
(thinkexist.com)
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
(brainyquote.com)
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
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It was a lack of system that made the `30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
(brainyquote.com)
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
(brainyquote.com)
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
(brainyquote.com)
I`ve run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
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Nothing will give me any peace. I`ve lost a son. And I`ll go to my grave without any peace over that.
(imdb.com)
People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls-poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
(imdb.com)
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
(brainyquote.com)
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn`t personally sad about finishing a long job.
(brainyquote.com)
We don`t really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
(brainyquote.com)
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
(brainyquote.com)
I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?
(brainyquote.com)
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
(brainyquote.com)
The wages of pedantry is pain.
(brainyquote.com)
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
(brainyquote.com)
Not all celebrities are dunces.
(brainyquote.com)
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
(brainyquote.com)
In the final phase of cocaine intoxication, when suicide is likely, the victim cannot save himself by an effort of will. He has lost the power.
(brainyquote.com)
I`m lucky. Lord, I`m lucky.
(brainyquote.com)
I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I`d done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
(brainyquote.com)
Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
(brainyquote.com)
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
(brainyquote.com)
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
(brainyquote.com)
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
(brainyquote.com)
Get between your kids and drugs any way you can if you want to save the kid`s life.
(imdb.com)
Those offers come in now and again. They`re not knocking down my door. I`m only an old character actor, and I`m not needed.
(brainyquote.com)
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
(brainyquote.com)
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
(brainyquote.com)
Get between your kid and drugs any way you can.
(imdb.com)
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
(brainyquote.com)
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
(brainyquote.com)
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
(brainyquote.com)
Trivia
Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Archie Bunker in All in the Family (1971).
(imdb.com)
Attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC for at least one semester prior to enrolling at University of Montana.
(imdb.com)
His son, Hugh, died on what would have been his third wedding anniversary. He was in the process of reconciling with his wife at the time of his death.
(imdb.com)
He adopted his only child, Hugh, while in Rome filming Cleopatra (1963). He named him after his own brother, who was killed years before in a motorcycle accident.
(imdb.com)
Has one grandson, Sean Carroll O`Connor.
(imdb.com)
He was a 33rd Degree Master Free Mason
(imdb.com)
As executive producer of "In the Heat of the Night" (1988), he often asked longtime friends and musicians to guest-star. Two of his favorites were Miss Jean Simmons and Bobby Short. He gave long-time friend, Lois Nettleton, a significant recurring role in the first few seasons.
(imdb.com)
In real life, he was the total opposite of his "Archie Bunker" character. In fact, his "All in the Family" (1971) co-star Rob Reiner once remarked that O`Connor was even more liberal than Reiner himself.
(imdb.com)
His only son, Hugh O`Connor, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, despondent over the disintegration of his life resulting from his long term drug addiction. He was speaking with his father on the phone at the time. O`Connor did a public service announcement shortly before his death about the perils of drug abuse.
(imdb.com)
Archie Bunker, O`Connor`s character on "All in the Family" (1971), was ranked #24 in TV Guide`s list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
(imdb.com)
Passed away 37 days before what would have been his golden wedding anniversary with Nancy Fields.
(imdb.com)
Performed the "Archie Bunker" role for a remarkable 12 years and 307 episodes ("All in the Family" (1971) and "Archie Bunker`s Place" (1979)).
(imdb.com)
Was so displeased with CBS`s axing of "Archie Bunker`s Place" (1979) in 1983, without a chance to film an actual series finale, that he vowed to never work for the network again. (Nonetheless, his late-1980s NBC series, "In the Heat of the Night" (1988) later moved to CBS in 1992.)
(imdb.com)
Was a brother of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity
(imdb.com)
Mickey Rooney was Norman Lear`s first choice to play Archie in the pilot of "All in the Family" (1971). Rooney had reservations about the character, so he refused.
(imdb.com)
He passed away on the same day that blues legend, John Lee Hooker did. Coincidentally, their stars are right next to one another on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
(imdb.com)
Was fluent in Italian.
(imdb.com)
He met his wife, Nancy, while both were performing in the play "Life with Father" at the University of Montana.
(imdb.com)
In the early 1950s, while trying to launch his acting career, he worked as a substitute high school English teacher in order to pay the rent.
(imdb.com)
Said that he came up with the address for the Bunker family residence (704 Hauser Street) when he was driving to work in L.A. He happened to find himself on Hauser Blvd (few blocks from CBS TV City) and thought the name sounded like part of Queens, New York where Archie was supposed to live.
(imdb.com)
Auditioned for the role of The Skipper on "Gilligan`s Island" (1964).
(imdb.com)
He was instrumental in the passage of the Drug Dealers Civil Liability Act in California. The Act states that citizens can sue drug dealers whom they feel are responsible for the drug-related deaths of family members. The Act came about as a result of his son`s drug-related suicide. He and "All in the Family" (1971) creator Norman Lear are not speaking to one another because O`Connor wants to reprise his "Archie Bunker" character, while Lear does not. He was sued for slander and invasion of privacy by the man he accused of being an accessory to his son`s suicide, by supplying his son with drugs. O`Connor won the lawsuit.
(imdb.com)
Lost his restaurant in the Northridge earthquake. [17 January 1994]
(imdb.com)
Attended college in Ireland and began his career on the stage, playing in Dublin, London and Paris before making his Broadway debut in 1958.
(imdb.com)
His favorite expressions on "All in the Family" (1971) were "Dingbat" and "Stifle" to his wife, Edith, and "Meathead" to his son-in-law, Michael.
(imdb.com)
Father of Hugh O`Connor.
(imdb.com)
Earned a reported $250,000 a week for "All in the Family" in 1980.
(imdb.com)
Spent some time at the Juilliard School of Fine Arts as an acting and dialogue professor.
(imdb.com)
In 1997, he and his wife, also a University of Montana graduate, donated $1 million to the University of Montana`s Center for the Rocky Mountain West, a regional studies and public policy institute. The Center was renamed "Carroll and Nancy Fields O`Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West" in September of 1997.
(imdb.com)
While attending University of Montana, O`Connor was an associate editor for the college newspaper, the Kaimin. In 1949, he resigned his editing position in protest to the pressure from the campus administration that lead to confiscation and destruction of an issue of the paper, which carried a cartoon depicting the Montana Board of Education as rats gnawing at a bag of university funds.
(imdb.com)
Had completed part of his undergraduate studies at the University of Montana before returning to earn a master`s degree in speech in 1956.
(imdb.com)
Spouse
Nancy O`Connor (28 July 1951 - 21 June 2001) (his death) 1 child
(imdb.com)
Was fluent in Italian.
(imdb.com)
Attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC for at least one semester prior to enrolling at University of Montana.
(imdb.com)
He adopted his only child, Hugh, while in Rome filming Cleopatra (1963). He named him after his own brother, who was killed years before in a motorcycle accident.
(imdb.com)
He passed away on the same day that blues legend, John Lee Hooker did. Coincidentally, their stars are right next to one another on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
(imdb.com)
Performed the "Archie Bunker" role for a remarkable 12 years and 307 episodes ("All in the Family" (1971) and "Archie Bunker's Place" (1979)).
(imdb.com)
In 1997, he and his wife, also a University of Montana graduate, donated $1 million to the University of Montana's Center for the Rocky Mountain West, a regional studies and public policy institute. The Center was renamed "Carroll and Nancy Fields O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West" in September of 1997.
(imdb.com)
Has one grandson, Sean Carroll O'Connor.
(imdb.com)
Father of Hugh O'Connor.
(imdb.com)
Listed as #20 on TV Land's Top 50 TV Icons Countdown. He beat out Alan Alda, George Clooney, Matthew J. Fox, and Kermit the Frog.
(imdb.com)
In real life, he was the total opposite of his "Archie Bunker" character. In fact, his "All in the Family" (1971) co-star Rob Reiner once remarked that O'Connor was even more liberal than Reiner himself.
(imdb.com)
He was instrumental in the passage of the Drug Dealers Civil Liability Act in California. The Act states that citizens can sue drug dealers whom they feel are responsible for the drug-related deaths of family members. The Act came about as a result of his son's drug-related suicide. He and "All in the Family" (1971) creator Norman Lear are not speaking to one another because O'Connor wants to reprise his "Archie Bunker" character, while Lear does not. He was sued for slander and invasion of privacy by the man he accused of being an accessory to his son's suicide, by supplying his son with drugs. O'Connor won the lawsuit.
(imdb.com)
Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Archie Bunker in All in the Family (1971).
(imdb.com)
Earned a reported $250,000 a week for "All in the Family" in 1980.
(imdb.com)
Mickey Rooney was Norman Lear's first choice to play Archie in the pilot of "All in the Family" (1971). Rooney had reservations about the character, so he refused.
(imdb.com)
As executive producer of "In the Heat of the Night" (1988), he often asked longtime friends and musicians to guest-star. Two of his favorites were Miss Jean Simmons and Bobby Short. He gave long-time friend, Lois Nettleton, a significant recurring role in the first few seasons.
(imdb.com)
While attending University of Montana, O'Connor was an associate editor for the college newspaper, the Kaimin. In 1949, he resigned his editing position in protest to the pressure from the campus administration that lead to confiscation and destruction of an issue of the paper, which carried a cartoon depicting the Montana Board of Education as rats gnawing at a bag of university funds.
(imdb.com)
Attended college in Ireland and began his career on the stage, playing in Dublin, London and Paris before making his Broadway debut in 1958.
(imdb.com)
Was so displeased with CBS's axing of "Archie Bunker's Place" (1979) in 1983, without a chance to film an actual series finale, that he vowed to never work for the network again. (Nonetheless, his late-1980s NBC series, "In the Heat of the Night" (1988) later moved to CBS in 1992.)
(imdb.com)
He was a 33rd Degree Master Free Mason
(imdb.com)
Said that he came up with the address for the Bunker family residence (704 Hauser Street) when he was driving to work in L.A. He happened to find himself on Hauser Blvd (few blocks from CBS TV City) and thought the name sounded like part of Queens, New York where Archie was supposed to live.
(imdb.com)
Archie Bunker, O'Connor's character on "All in the Family" (1971), was ranked #24 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
(imdb.com)
He met his wife, Nancy, while both were performing in the play "Life with Father" at the University of Montana.
(imdb.com)
Auditioned for the role of The Skipper on "Gilligan's Island" (1964).
(imdb.com)
Passed away 37 days before what would have been his golden wedding anniversary with Nancy Fields.
(imdb.com)
His only son, Hugh O'Connor, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, despondent over the disintegration of his life resulting from his long term drug addiction. He was speaking with his father on the phone at the time. O'Connor did a public service announcement shortly before his death about the perils of drug abuse.
(imdb.com)
Spent some time at the Juilliard School of Fine Arts as an acting and dialogue professor.
(imdb.com)
In the early 1950s, while trying to launch his acting career, he worked as a substitute high school English teacher in order to pay the rent.
(imdb.com)
Lost his restaurant in the Northridge earthquake. [17 January 1994]
(imdb.com)
Was a brother of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity
(imdb.com)
His son, Hugh, died on what would have been his third wedding anniversary. He was in the process of reconciling with his wife at the time of his death.
(imdb.com)
His favorite expressions on "All in the Family" (1971) were "Dingbat" and "Stifle" to his wife, Edith, and "Meathead" to his son-in-law, Michael.
(imdb.com)
Had completed part of his undergraduate studies at the University of Montana before returning to earn a master's degree in speech in 1956.
(imdb.com)
Merchant Marines 1942
(imdb.com)
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