Mike Connors
- Acting
- August 15, 1925 · Fresno, California, USA
- January 26, 2017
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Krekor Ohanian (August 15, 1925 – January 26, 2017), known professionally as Mike Connors, was an American actor best known for playing private detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series Mannix from 1967 to 1975, a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award in 1970, the first of six straight nominations, as well as four consecutive Emmy nominations from 1970 to 1973. Connors was an avid basketball player in high school, nicknamed "Touch" by his teammates. During World War II, he served as an enlisted man in the United States Army Air Forces.[3] After the war, he attended the University of California at Los Angeles on both a basketball scholarship and the G.I. Bill, where he played under coach John Wooden. Connors went to law school, where he studied to become an attorney, taking after his father. Connors's film career started in the early 1950s, when he made his acting debut in a supporting role opposite Joan Crawford and Jack Palance in the thriller Sudden Fear (1952). Connors married Mary Lou Willey on September 10, 1949, when they were both UCLA students. They had two children, a son, Matthew Gunnar Ohanian, and a daughter, Dana Lee Connors. Connors died in Tarzana, California, at the age of 91 on January 26, 2017, a week after being diagnosed with leukemia. CLR
Known for
Filmography
- Nobody Knows Anything! · "Joe Mannix"
- Two and a Half Men · Hugo
- The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2 · Self
- Gideon · Harland Greer
- Hercules · Chipacles (Voice)
- James Dean: Race with Destiny · Jack Warner
- Downtown Heat · Steve
- Burke's Law · Jack Duncan
- Hart to Hart Returns · Dr. Paul Menard, Bill McDowell
- Diagnosis: Murder · Joe Mannix
- Walker, Texas Ranger · Judge Arthur McSpadden
- Armen and Bullik · Joe 'Uncle Do Do' Armen
- The Commish · James hayden
- Public Enemy #2 · Mike Connors
- Fist Fighter · Billy Vance
- Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief · Self
- Crimes of the Century · Host
- War and Remembrance · Harrison 'Hack' Peters
- Sacrée soirée · Self
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood · Self
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents · Robert Logan
- Murder, She Wrote · Walter Murray, Boyce Brown
- Too Scared to Scream · Lt. Alex Dinardo
- Glitter
- Today's F.B.I. · Ben Slater
- Nightkill · Wendell Atwell
- Casino · Nick
- High Midnight · Capt. Lou Mikalich
- The Death of Ocean View Park · Sam Jackson
- Avalanche Express · Haller
- Long Journey Back · Vic Casella
- The Love Boat · Sidney Sloan, Mark Hayward
- Revenge for a Rape · Travis Green
- Charo · Self
- The Killer Who Wouldn't Die · Karl Ohanian
- Joys · Self
- Sticky Fingers · Host
- Mitzi & 100 Guys · Self
- Dinah! · Self
- The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts · Self
- Mitzi... The First Time · Self
- Beg, Borrow...or Steal · Vic Cummings
- Police Story · Curtis 'Manny' Mandell
- The All Star Spangled Mission · Mannix
- The Pet Set · Self
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour · Self
- Here's Lucy · Joe Mannix
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In · Self
- Mannix · Joe Mannix
- Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die · Kelly
- Stagecoach · Hatfield (as Michael Connors)
- Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious · Sgt. Lucky Finder
- Harlow · Jack Harrison
- Where Love Has Gone · Luke Miller
- Good Neighbor Sam · Howard Ebbets
- Panic Button · Frank
- Redigo
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self
- The Merv Griffin Show · Self
- The Mike Douglas Show · Self
- The Dalton That Got Away · Russ Dalton
- The Untouchables · Eddie O'Gara
- Tightrope
- One Step Beyond · Mario Patruzzio
- Lawman
- The Texan · Larry Enright
- Bronco
- Jefferson Drum · Simon Pitt
- Live Fast, Die Young · Rick (as Michael Connors)
- Suicide Battalion · Matt McCormack
- The Walter Winchell File
- Maverick · Ralph Jordan, Sheriff Barney Fillmore
- Perry Mason · Joe Kelly
- M Squad · Pete Wikowlski
- Have Gun, Will Travel · Johnny Dart
- Voodoo Woman · Ted Bronson
- Official Detective
- The Ten Commandments · Amalekite Herder (as Touch Connors)
- Shake, Rattle and Rock! · Garry Nelson
- The Gale Storm Show · Jerry Moss