Chuck Connors
Chuck Connors (actually Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors ; born April 10, 1921 in Brooklyn , New York , † November 10, 1992 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor , baseball and basketball player.
biography
Connors was the son of Irish-American parents. He finished his studies at Seton Hall College to join the US Army . After the end of World War II , Connors began a basketball career with the Boston Celtics , then switched to baseball.
Because he had a large family to support with his four children, he hired himself in a sub-division in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, after guest appearances with the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs had remained short-term interludes. During this time he was discovered by talent scouts, whereupon he got his first small supporting role in Pat and Mike (1952) as sheriff.
Connors developed a talent for acting and was mostly used in westerns and crime films due to his size and stature . He became famous for his leading role in West of Santa Fé (Original: The Rifleman , 1958-1963), one of the most famous western series on television.
After his first marriage failed, he married fellow actor Kamala Devi in 1963. The couple appeared together in two relatively short-lived series. In 1972 the marriage was divorced. Connor's third and final marriage was only one year in 1977.
Until his retirement from the film business because of his lung cancer, Connors appeared regularly in films and TV guest roles.
Filmography
TV Shows
- 1958–1963: West of Santa Fé (167 episodes)
- 1965-1966: Outlaw (Branded) (48 episodes)
- 1967–1968: Cowboy in Africa
- 1977: Roots
- 1985: Murder is her hobby (Murder, she wrote) (Season 2.2 "Who was Joshua Peabody?")
- 1987: Werewolf as Janos Skorzeny
- 1988: Murder is her hobby (Murder, she wrote) (Season 5.5 "Don't forgive, don't forget")
Feature films (selection)
- 1952: Pat and Mike
- 1954: Fire Dragons Combat Squadron (Dragonfly Squadron)
- 1954: Weak Alibi (Naked Alibi)
- 1955: Good Morning Miss Fink ( Good Morning Miss Dove)
- 1957: Escape from the gallows
- 1957: Alarm at Fort Bowie
- 1957: His friend Jello (Old Yeller)
- 1957: Why did I say yes? (Designing Woman)
- 1958: Always Trouble with Women (The Lady Takes a Flyer)
- 1958: The Big Country (The Big Country)
- 1962: The last command (Geronimo)
- 1963: One Too Many in Bed (Move Over, Darling)
- 1963: Flipper (Flipper)
- 1965: Outlawed, Hated, Feared (Broken Saber) IMDb
- 1966: day of reckoning
- 1968: Kill everyone and come back alone (Ammazzali tutti e torna solo!)
- 1969: Captain Nemo
- 1969: The Proud and Damned
- 1970: The Hellhounds (La spina dorsale del diavolo)
- 1970: Latigo (Support your local gunfighter)
- 1972: Viva Pancho Villa (El desafío de Pancho Villa)
- 1973: year 2022 ... who want to survive (Soylent Green)
- 1973: Spit from Hell (The Mad Bomber)
- 1974: King Ballermann
- 1975: The journey into hell
- 1979: The Tourist Trap
- 1979: The Day of the Murderers
- 1980: Overkill - Through Hell to Eternity (Fukkatsu no hi)
- 1981: Four daughters of pastors (Las mujeres de Jeremias)
- 1982: The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Spaceship (Airplane II - The Sequel)
- 1987: The indomitable savages
- 1987: Sakura Killers
- 1988: The Magnificent Nine
- 1989: High Desert Kill (TV movie)
Web links
- Chuck Connors in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Player information and statistics from MLB or Baseball Reference or Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
- Chuck Connors at basketball-reference.com (English)
- Homage at BriansDriveInTheater (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Outlawed, hated, feared. "Broken Saber" (original title). IMDB.com, accessed September 29, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Connors, Chuck |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Connors, Kevin Joseph Aloysius (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actor and baseball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1992 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |