Mike Connors
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
Filmography (107 Appearances)
Nobody Knows Anything!
Two and a Half Men
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
Gideon
Hercules
James Dean: Race with Destiny
Downtown Heat
Burke's Law
Hart to Hart Returns
Diagnosis: Murder
Walker, Texas Ranger
The Commish
Public Enemy #2
Fist Fighter
Crimes of the Century
War and Remembrance
Sacrée Soirée
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Murder, She Wrote
Too Scared to Scream
Glitter
Today's F.B.I.
Nightkill
Casino
High Midnight
The Death of Ocean View Park
Avalanche Express
Long Journey Back
The Love Boat
Revenge for a Rape
Charo
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
Joys
Sticky Fingers
Mitzi & 100 Guys
Dinah!
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Mitzi... The First Time
Beg, Borrow...or Steal
Police Story
The All Star Spangled Mission
The Pet Set
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Here's Lucy
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Mannix
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
Stagecoach
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
Harlow
Where Love Has Gone
Good Neighbor Sam
Panic Button
Redigo
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Dalton That Got Away
The Untouchables
Tightrope
One Step Beyond
Lawman
The Texan
Bronco
Jefferson Drum
Live Fast, Die Young
Suicide Battalion
The Walter Winchell File
Maverick
Perry Mason
M Squad
Have Gun, Will Travel
Voodoo Woman
Official Detective
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
The Ten Commandments
The Gale Storm Show
State Trooper
Flesh and the Spur
Hey, Jeannie!
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The Oklahoma Woman
Telephone Time
Swamp Women
Jaguar
Day the World Ended
The Twinkle In God's Eye
Frontier
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Five Guns West
The Millionaire
Day of Triumph
Studio 57
Letter to Loretta
City Detective
Island in the Sky
Sky Commando
The 49th Man
Mr. & Mrs. North
Sudden Fear
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Red Skelton Show
Lux Video Theatre
The Bob Hope Show
Golden Globe Awards