Carroll O'Connor

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Best known for his portrayal of cantankerous Archie Bunker on the long-running CBS series All in the Family, Carroll O'Connor has been one of television's most recognized actors for over twenty years. For his work on All in the Family and In the Heat of the Night the actor has received five Emmy Awards, eight Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe Award and a Peabody Award. O'Connor's acting career began while he was a student in Ireland in the 1950s. Following on experiences in American and European theatre, he established himself as a versatile character actor in Hollywood during the 1960s. Between films he made guest appearances on television programs such as the U.S. Steel Hour, Kraft Television Theatre, the Armstrong Circle Theatre and many of the filmed series hits of the 1960s. But O'Connor became a television star with his portrayal of outspoken bigot Archie Bunker, the American archetype whose chair now sits in the Smithsonian Institution. In 1968, ABC Television, which had the first rights to the series, financed production of two pilot episodes of All in The Family (then under the title Those Were the Days). But the network's trepidation about the program's socially controversial content led ABC to reject the show. Producer Norman Lear sold the series to CBS, where All in The Family was broadcast for the first time on 12 January 1971 with O'Connor as Archie Bunker. By using humor to tackle racism and other sensitive subjects, All in The Family changed the style and t

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Sings for Old P.F.A.R.T.S.

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TV Land Presents Favorite TV Theme Songs

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All-Time Top 100 TV Themes Disc 2

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Carroll O'Connor Sings for Old P.F.A.R.T.S. (People Favoring a Return to Sentiment)

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All-Time Top 100 TV Themes

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Tube Tunes, Vol. 1: The '70s

Those Were The Days ("All In The Family" Theme)

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Television's Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 (70's & 80's)

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Of Thee I Sing

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Television's Greatest Hits

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Television's Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 (70's & 80's)

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