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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 15, 1925
Died
January 26, 2017
Place of Birth
Fresno, California, USA
Also Known As
- Touch Connors
- Michael Connors
- Jay Connors
- Touch Jay Connors
- Krekor Ohanian
Mike Connors
1.7 Popularity
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
Known For
3.0
"Joe Mannix"
Nobody Knows Anything!
2004
7.4
Hugo
Two and a Half Men
2003
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
2001
5.8
Harland Greer
Gideon
1998
6.9
Chipacles (voice)
Hercules
1998
6.0
Jack Warner
James Dean: Race with Destiny
1997
3.2
Steve
Downtown Heat
1994
6.7
Jack Duncan
Burke's Law
1994
6.7
Dr. Paul Menard
Hart to Hart Returns
1993
6.7
Bill McDowell
Hart to Hart Returns
1993
Credits
Nobody Knows Anything!
as "Joe Mannix"
2004
3.0
Two and a Half Men
as Hugo
2003
7.4
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
as Self (archive footage)
2001
0.0
Gideon
as Harland Greer
1998
5.8
Hercules
as Chipacles (voice)
1998
6.9
James Dean: Race with Destiny
as Jack Warner
1997
6.0
Downtown Heat
as Steve
1994
3.2
Burke's Law
as Jack Duncan
1994
6.7
Hart to Hart Returns
as Dr. Paul Menard
1993
6.7
Hart to Hart Returns
as Bill McDowell
1993
6.7
Diagnosis: Murder
as Joe Mannix
1993
7.1
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Judge Arthur McSpadden
1993
6.9
The Commish
as James hayden
1991
7.1
Public Enemy #2
as Mike Connors
1991
0.0
Fist Fighter
as Billy Vance
1989
4.3
War and Remembrance
as Col. Harrison 'Hack' Peters
1988
7.8
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
1987
5.1
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1987
5.7
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Robert Logan
1985
7.2
Murder, She Wrote
as Walter Murray
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Boyce Brown
1984
7.5
Too Scared to Scream
as Lt. Alex Dinardo
1984
5.1
Glitter
1984
4.5
🎬
Today's F.B.I.
as Ben Slater
1981
5.0
Nightkill
as Wendell Atwell
1980
4.8
Casino
as Nick
1980
10.0
High Midnight
as Capt. Lou Mikalich
1979
7.0
The Death of Ocean View Park
as Sam Jackson
1979
6.0
Avalanche Express
as Haller
1979
4.7
Long Journey Back
as Vic Casella
1978
6.0
The Love Boat
as Sidney Sloan
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Mark Hayward
1977
6.3
Revenge for a Rape
as Travis Green
1976
5.0
Charo
as Himself
1976
0.0
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
as Karl Ohanian
1976
0.0
Joys
as Self
1976
4.0
🎬
Sticky Fingers
as Host
1976
0.0
Mitzi & 100 Guys
as Self
1975
0.0
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self
1973
5.4
Mitzi... The First Time
as Self
1973
0.0
Police Story
as Curtis 'Manny' Mandell
1973
6.9
Beg, Borrow...or Steal
as Vic Cummings
1973
7.5
The Pet Set
as Self
1971
5.5
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
1969
5.8
Here's Lucy
as Joe Mannix
1968
6.7
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
6.6
Mannix
as Joe Mannix
1967
6.7
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
as Kelly
1966
6.7
Stagecoach
as Hatfield (as Michael Connors)
1966
6.0
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
as Sgt. Lucky Finder
1965
6.9
Harlow
as Jack Harrison
1965
5.4
Where Love Has Gone
as Luke Miller
1964
5.9
Good Neighbor Sam
as Howard Ebbets
1964
6.5
Panic Button
as Frank
1964
4.2
Redigo
1963
5.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Dalton That Got Away
as Russ Dalton
1960
5.0
The Untouchables
as Eddie O'Gara
1959
7.8
Tightrope
1959
5.5
One Step Beyond
as Mario Patruzzio
1959
5.6
Lawman
1958
5.6
The Texan
as Larry Enright
1958
5.5
Bronco
1958
5.9
🎬
Jefferson Drum
as Simon Pitt
1958
4.5
Live Fast, Die Young
as Rick (as Michael Connors)
1958
5.7
Suicide Battalion
as Matt McCormack
1958
4.5
The Walter Winchell File
1957
5.0
Maverick
as Ralph Jordan
1957
6.9
Maverick
as Sheriff Barney Fillmore
1957
6.9
Perry Mason
as Joe Kelly
1957
7.7
M Squad
as Pete Wikowlski
1957
5.2
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Johnny Dart
1957
7.3
Voodoo Woman
as Ted Bronson
1957
4.6
🎬
Official Detective
1957
7.0
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
as Garry Nelson
1956
4.6
The Ten Commandments
as Amalekite Herder (as Touch Connors)
1956
7.8
🎬
The Gale Storm Show
as Jerry Moss
1956
5.5
🎬
State Trooper
as Jim Madison
1956
5.0
🎬
State Trooper
as Jim Herndon
1956
5.0
Flesh and the Spur
as Stacy
1956
4.2
🎬
Hey, Jeannie!
as Lash Connor
1956
6.0
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
5.0
The Oklahoma Woman
as Tom Blake
1956
3.2
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
Swamp Women
as Bob Matthews
1956
3.4
Jaguar
as Marty Lang
1956
7.0
Day the World Ended
as Tony Lamont
1955
4.9
The Twinkle In God's Eye
as Lou
1955
7.0
Frontier
1955
5.0
Cheyenne
1955
6.0
Gunsmoke
as Bostick
1955
6.6
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Pat Smith
1955
6.8
Five Guns West
as Hale Clinton
1955
4.1
The Millionaire
as Victor Volante
1955
5.0
Day of Triumph
as Andrew
1954
0.0
Studio 57
as Hap Gordon
1954
0.0
Letter to Loretta
as Al Kiner
1953
6.5
City Detective
1953
7.0
Island in the Sky
as Gainer
1953
6.3
Sky Commando
as Lt. Hobson 'Hobbie' Lee
1953
5.5
The 49th Man
as Lt. Magrew (as Touch Conners)
1953
0.0
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
4.3
Sudden Fear
as Junior Kearney
1952
7.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Lou Renaldi
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mel Dunlap
1951
7.2
The Red Skelton Show
as Self - Federal Witness
1951
7.4
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Glen Kramer
1950
6.3
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2