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Mike Connors

Mike Connors

Birthday: 1925-08-15 | Place of Birth: Fresno, California, USA

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

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1998
Gideon

as    Harland Greer

1997
James Dean: Race with Destiny

as    Jack Warner

1994
Downtown Heat

as    Steve

1993
Hart to Hart Returns

as    Dr. Paul Menard

1989
Fist Fighter

as    Billy Vance

1984
Too Scared to Scream

as    Lt. Alex Dinardo

1980
Nightkill

as    Wendell Atwell

1979
The Death of Ocean View Park

as    Sam Jackson

1967
Mannix

as    Joe Mannix

1967
1966
Stagecoach

as    Hatfield (as Michael Connors)

1965
Situation Hopeless -- But Not Serious

as    Sgt. Lucky Finder

1964
Good Neighbor Sam

as    Howard Ebbets (as Michael Connors)

1964
Where Love Has Gone

as    Luke Miller

1960
The Dalton That Got Away

as    Russ Dalton

1957
Voodoo Woman

as    Ted Bronson

1956
Swamp Women

as    Bob Matthews

1956
Shake, Rattle and Rock!

as    Garry Nelson

1956
Jaguar

as    Marty Lang

1956
Flesh and the Spur

as    Stacy

1956
The Oklahoma Woman

as    Tom Blake

1955
Five Guns West

as    Hale Clinton

1955
Day the World Ended

as    Tony Lamont

1954
Day of Triumph

as    Andrew

1953
Sky Commando

as    Lt. Hobson 'Hobbie' Lee

1953
The 49th Man

as    Lt. Magrew (as Touch Conners)

1952
Sudden Fear

as    Junior Kearney