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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 scholarshi…
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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
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Mike Connors's Filmography
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Nobody Knows Anything!
as "Joe Mannix"
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
as Self (archive footage)
Gideon
as Harland Greer
James Dean: Race with Destiny
as Jack Warner
Downtown Heat
as Steve
Hart to Hart Returns
as Bill McDowell
Hart to Hart Returns
as Dr. Paul Menard
Armen and Bullik
as Joe 'Uncle Do Do' Armen
Public Enemy #2
as Mike Connors
Fist Fighter
as Billy Vance
Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief
as Self
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
Too Scared to Scream
as Lt. Alex Dinardo
Nightkill
as Wendell Atwell
Casino
as Nick
High Midnight
as Capt. Lou Mikalich
The Death of Ocean View Park
as Sam Jackson
Avalanche Express
as Haller
Long Journey Back
as Vic Casella
Revenge for a Rape
as Travis Green
Charo
as Himself
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
as Karl Ohanian
Joys
as Self
No Poster
Sticky Fingers
as Host
Mitzi & 100 Guys
as Self
Mitzi... The First Time
as Self
Beg, Borrow...or Steal
as Vic Cummings
The All Star Spangled Mission
as Mannix
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
as Kelly
Stagecoach
as Hatfield (as Michael Connors)
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
as Sgt. Lucky Finder
Harlow
as Jack Harrison
Where Love Has Gone
as Luke Miller
Good Neighbor Sam
as Howard Ebbets
Panic Button
as Frank
The Dalton That Got Away
as Russ Dalton
Live Fast, Die Young
as Rick (as Michael Connors)
Suicide Battalion
as Matt McCormack
Voodoo Woman
as Ted Bronson
The Ten Commandments
as Amalekite Herder (as Touch Connors)
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
as Garry Nelson
Flesh and the Spur
as Stacy
The Oklahoma Woman
as Tom Blake
Swamp Women
as Bob Matthews
Jaguar
as Marty Lang
Day the World Ended
as Tony Lamont
The Twinkle In God's Eye
as Lou
Five Guns West
as Hale Clinton
Day of Triumph
as Andrew
Island in the Sky
as Gainer
Sky Commando
as Lt. Hobson 'Hobbie' Lee
The 49th Man
as Lt. Magrew (as Touch Conners)
Sudden Fear
as Junior Kearney