Carroll O'Connor
John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. O'Connor found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979) and its continuation, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983). O'Connor later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995), where he played the role of police chief William "Bill" Gillespie. In the late 1990s, he played Gus Stemple, the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You. In 1996, O'Connor was ranked number 38 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. He won five Emmys and one Golden Globe Award.
2 August 1924
Born on the same birth date (2 August 1924): Joe Harnell
Born on the same birth day (2 August): Adolf Friedrich von Schack • Beko Ransome-Kuti • Big Walter Price • Doris Coley • Edward Furlong • Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi • Håkon Stenstadvold • Mohammed Kudus • Neal Morse • Per Westerberg
Born in the same month (August 1924): Buddy Hackett • Evan S. Connell • Frank Havens (canoeist) • Frank Martínez (artist) • Harishankar Parsai • Inez Voyce • Lajos Kisfaludy • Leon Uris • Nancy Buckingham • Sverre Fehn • William Marshall (actor)