Mike Connors
Acting • Born 1925-08-15 – Died 2017-01-26
Biography
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
Filmography
114 credits
Avalanche Express
Movie • 1979
Haller
Mitzi & 100 Guys
Movie • 1975
Self
Good Neighbor Sam
Movie • 1964
Howard Ebbets
Harlow
Movie • 1965
Jack Harrison
Swamp Women
Movie • 1956
Bob Matthews
Day the World Ended
Movie • 1955
Tony Lamont
Public Enemy #2
Movie • 1991
Mike Connors
Voodoo Woman
Movie • 1957
Ted Bronson
Stagecoach
Movie • 1966
Hatfield (as Michael Connors)
Sudden Fear
Movie • 1952
Junior Kearney
Where Love Has Gone
Movie • 1964
Luke Miller
Too Scared to Scream
Movie • 1984
Lt. Alex Dinardo
Five Guns West
Movie • 1955
Hale Clinton
The Oklahoma Woman
Movie • 1956
Tom Blake
Casino
Movie • 1980
Nick
Suicide Battalion
Movie • 1958
Matt McCormack
Sky Commando
Movie • 1953
Lt. Hobson 'Hobbie' Lee
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
Movie • 1956
Garry Nelson
The 49th Man
Movie • 1953
Lt. Magrew (as Touch Conners)
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
Movie • 1966
Kelly
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
Movie • 1965
Sgt. Lucky Finder
Downtown Heat
Movie • 1994
Steve
The Twinkle In God's Eye
Movie • 1955
Lou
Nightkill
Movie • 1980
Wendell Atwell
Flesh and the Spur
Movie • 1956
Stacy
Beg, Borrow...or Steal
Movie • 1973
Vic Cummings
The Death of Ocean View Park
Movie • 1979
Sam Jackson
Live Fast, Die Young
Movie • 1958
Rick (as Michael Connors)
James Dean: Race with Destiny
Movie • 1997
Jack Warner
Panic Button
Movie • 1964
Frank
Fist Fighter
Movie • 1989
Billy Vance
High Midnight
Movie • 1979
Capt. Lou Mikalich
Jaguar
Movie • 1956
Marty Lang
Island in the Sky
Movie • 1953
Gainer
The Dalton That Got Away
Movie • 1960
Russ Dalton
Hart to Hart Returns
Movie • 1993
Bill McDowell
Hart to Hart Returns
Movie • 1993
Dr. Paul Menard
Day of Triumph
Movie • 1954
Andrew
Long Journey Back
Movie • 1978
Vic Casella
Joys
Movie • 1976
Self
The Ten Commandments
Movie • 1956
Amalekite Herder (as Touch Connors)
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
Movie • 1976
Karl Ohanian
Revenge for a Rape
Movie • 1976
Travis Green
Gideon
Movie • 1998
Harland Greer
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
Nobody Knows Anything!
Movie • 2004
"Joe Mannix"
Charo
Movie • 1976
Himself
Mitzi... The First Time
Movie • 1973
Self
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie • 1987
Self
Sticky Fingers
Movie • 1976
Host
The All Star Spangled Mission
Movie • 1973
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Walter Murray
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Maverick
TV • 1957
Ralph Jordan
Here's Lucy
TV • 1968
Joe Mannix
Two and a Half Men
TV • 2003
Hugo
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV • 1993
Judge Arthur McSpadden
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1985
Robert Logan
Mannix
TV • 1967
Joe Mannix
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Bostick
Redigo
TV • 1963
Glitter
TV • 1984
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Victor Volante
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV • 1969
Self
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Glen Kramer
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Lou Renaldi
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Mario Patruzzio
M Squad
TV • 1957
Pete Wikowlski
Bronco
TV • 1958
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Lawman
TV • 1958
Tightrope
TV • 1959
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
The Walter Winchell File
TV • 1957
City Detective
TV • 1953
Frontier
TV • 1955
Official Detective
TV • 1957
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Al Kiner
Jefferson Drum
TV • 1958
Simon Pitt
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
TV • 1973
Self
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Joe Kelly
Hey, Jeannie!
TV • 1956
Lash Connor
Maverick
TV • 1957
Sheriff Barney Fillmore
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Boyce Brown
War and Remembrance
TV • 1988
Col. Harrison 'Hack' Peters
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Host
Hercules
TV • 1998
Chipacles (voice)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Mel Dunlap
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Gale Storm Show
TV • 1956
Jerry Moss
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Joe Mannix
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
Pat Smith
Burke's Law
TV • 1994
Jack Duncan
Studio 57
TV • 1954
Hap Gordon
The Commish
TV • 1991
James hayden
Today's F.B.I.
TV • 1981
Ben Slater
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Sidney Sloan
The Pet Set
TV • 1971
Self
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Eddie O'Gara
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Johnny Dart
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Mark Hayward
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Jim Madison
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Jim Herndon
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Self - Federal Witness
The Texan
TV • 1958
Larry Enright
Police Story
TV • 1973
Curtis 'Manny' Mandell
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self
Crimes of the Century
TV • 1989
Host