Few actors are fortunate sufficient to discover a position that retains them working for greater than a decade, not to mention one which turns them right into a cultural icon. To observe it up with one other meaty position — at age 63, in a completely totally different style — is virtually extraordinary. However tat’s the luck of Carroll O’Connor, who died 24 years in the past right now, on June 21, 2001, on the age of 76. He made tv historical past as All within the Household‘s dock foreman-turned-barkeep Archie Bunker, after which adopted it up with 8 seasons as Southern small-town police chief Invoice Gillespie on In The Warmth of the Night time.
However which character did the famously exacting O’Connor take pleasure in taking part in probably the most?