Mike Connors
Actor
- Born
- August 15, 1925 · Fresno, California, USA
- Died
- January 26, 2017 (age 91)
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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.
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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
Acting52
- 2004Nobody Knows Anything! as "Joe Mannix"
- 2001The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2 as Self (archive footage)
- 1998Gideon as Harland Greer
- 1997James Dean: Race with Destiny as Jack Warner
- 1994Downtown Heat as Steve
- 1993Hart to Hart Returns as Dr. Paul Menard, Bill McDowell
- 1993Armen and Bullik as Joe 'Uncle Do Do' Armen
- 1991Public Enemy #2 as Mike Connors
- 1989Fist Fighter as Billy Vance
- 1989
