Carroll O’Connor Net Worth

Carroll O’Connor's Quotes

• 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 kids and drugs any way you can if you want to save the kid's life.
• Nothing will give me any peace. I've lost a son. And I'll go to my grave without any peace over that.
• [asked to explain his criticism of critics] I think you all have been in a position where you all have said something out of pure emotion that is not all true. There are semi-literates. They write bad grammar. A lot of them copy what other people write and add a little twist of their own so that it appears the local boy has the inside track.
• [In 1976, on how he was going to play Frank Skeffington in The Last Hurrah (1977)] I'm going to keep the bigotry Edwin O'Connor had in the novel, but I'm going to play it as an undertone rather than as the main theme.

Interesting Facts about Carroll O’Connor

1. Completed part of his undergraduate studies at the University of Montana before returning to earn a master's degree in speech in 1956.
2. While attending the University of Montana he 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 led 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.
3. 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 1997.
4. Spent some time at the Juilliard School of Fine Arts as an acting and dialogue professor.
5. Earned a reported $250,000 a week for "All in the Family" (1971) in 1980.
6. Father of Hugh O'Connor.
7. His favorite expressions as Archie Bunker on All in the Family (1971) were "Dingbat" and "Stifle" to his wife, Edith, and "Meathead" to his son-in-law, Michael.
8. Attended college in Ireland and began his career on the stage, playing in Dublin, London and Paris before making his Broadway debut in 1958.
9. On 17 January 1994 he lost his restaurant in the Northridge (CA) earthquake.
10. 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.
11. Auditioned for the role of The Skipper on Gilligan's Island (1964), but the producers found him to be too unsympathetic in the role.
12. Said that he came up with the address for the Bunker family residence (704 Hauser St.) when he was driving to work in L.A. He happened to find himself on Hauser Blvd. (a few blocks from CBS Television City) and thought the name sounded like part of Queens, NY, where Archie was supposed to live.
13. 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.
14. He met his wife, Nancy, while both were performing in the play "Life with Father" at the University of Montana.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Was a brother of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity
18. Was so displeased with CBS' 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), moved to CBS in 1992).
19. Performed the "Archie Bunker" role for a remarkable 12 years and 307 episodes (All in the Family (1971) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979)).
20. Died on June 21, 2001, 37 days before what would have been his golden wedding anniversary with Nancy Fields.