Mike Connors
Actor
Biography
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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.
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
Sudden Fear
as Junior Kearney 1952
Day the World Ended
as Tony Lamont 1955
Island in the Sky
as Gainer 1953
Good Neighbor Sam
as Howard Ebbets 1964
Avalanche Express
as Haller 1979
Stagecoach
as Hatfield (as Michael Connors) 1966
Swamp Women
as Bob Matthews 1956
Five Guns West
as Hale Clinton 1955
Too Scared to Scream
as Lt. Alex Dinardo 1984
Nobody Knows Anything!
as "Joe Mannix" 2004
Voodoo Woman
as Ted Bronson 1957
Where Love Has Gone
as Luke Miller 1964
Harlow
as Jack Harrison 1965
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
as Kelly 1966
Nightkill
as Wendell Atwell 1980
Fist Fighter
as Billy Vance 1989