![]() It was in Dublin that O’Connorīegan his professional acting career at the Gate Theater.īack in New York he was a substitute teacher while auditioning for plays and movies and landed more than two dozen film roles in the 60s, including Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor. The title of the production, foreshadowing what he’d be famous for, was Life with Father.įrom there O’Connor joined his brother to study in Ireland,Įarning his BA from the National University. With the outfitter, Nancy Field, his future wife. University of Montana and, while acting in a school production, fell in love It would be the best let-down of his life. After WWII he followed a girlfriend to Montana, where O’Connor’s maternal grandfather was the founder of The Irish Advocate newspaper, which published for many years in New York.Īs a teenager O’Connor joined the Merchant Marine and sailed Born in 1925, the eldest son of a lawyer and teacher in Manhattan, not the Corona section of Queens where Archie made a living as a warehouse worker. Life for so many years that it was and is difficult to separate the actor fromīut O’Connor was not the bigoted, close-minded Archie, he was an active advocate of civil rights. He was rushed to the hospital but died two hours later.Īnd we lost one of our least admired and most cherishedĬharacters, the man everyone loved to hate.Ĭarroll O’Connor brought Archie Bunker to such shocking real ![]() On June 21, 2001, Carroll O’Connor, the man whose portrayal of Archie Bunker made All in the Family the most watched television program from 1971 – 1976, complained of chest pains to his wife, Nancy, at their home in Westwood, California. ![]() He sat in his mangy armchair amidst peeling wallpaper andĭingy windows and preached his sermon to whoever stopped by. But most of all Archie Bunker was afraid of He was terrified of African Americans, homosexuals,įeminists and evolutionists. He called his wife “Dingbat.” He called his daughterĪ “weepy Nellie atheist.” Puerto Ricans “spics” Jews
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