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Connors Mike
Ohanian Krekor
Оганьян Грегор
Mike Connors
AKA Krekor Ohanian
Born: 15-Aug-1925
Birthplace: Fresno, CA
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Joe Mannix
Military service: US Army Air Corps (WWII)
Mike Connors is best known for playing the title role in Mannix, a two-fisted TV detective show with a snappy theme song. Mannix had a knack for one-liners, and a bad habit of getting pistol-whipped by thugs when he came too close to unraveling each week's mystery.
In high school Connors played basketball, receiving the nickname "Touch" for playing tight defense. He attended UCLA on a basketball scholarship, and was approached after a ball game by William A. Wellman, who told him he had an actor's expressive face and suggested he call RKO. Billed as Touch Connors, his first film was the noir classic Sudden Fear with Joan Crawford and Jack Palance. He made several films with low-budget master Roger Corman, including Swamp Woman with Marie Windsor, and Five Guns West with Dorothy Malone.
In 1967 Connors began playing Mannix. Like Connors, Mannix was of Armenian extraction, and would occasionally offer pithy sayings in fluent Armenian. Gail Fisher played Mannix's secretary, winning an Emmy in the role, the first black actress so honored. Its theme was composed by Lalo Schifrin, who also scored Mission: Impossible and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. In at least ten separate episodes, Mannix frustrated the network censors by decorating the sets with tasteful nude paintings, or filming scenes in front of a statue of a naked woman. The censors could not see the nudity coming in the scripts, and they could not easily edit out the art after the shows had been filmed. Mannix thus effected a change whereby network censors now visit the sets of shows.
After Mannix, Connors was in charge of Today's FBI and hosted Crimes of the Century. He took two cruises on The Love Boat and was the special guest star on three of Angela Lansbury's Murder She Wrotes. And he played an aging Joe Mannix on an episode of Dick Van Dyke's Diagnosis Murder.
Wife: Mary Lou Wiley (two children)
University: University of California at Los Angeles
Golden Globe 1970 for Mannix
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Armenian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
TELEVISION
Tightrope Nick Stone (1959-60)
Mannix Joe Mannix (1967-75)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Gideon (10-Oct-1999)
War and Remembrance (13-Nov-1988)
Nightkill (18-Dec-1980)
Avalanche Express (27-Sep-1979)
Stagecoach (22-Apr-1966)
Harlow (23-Jun-1965)
Where Love Has Gone (2-Nov-1964)
Good Neighbor Sam (22-Jul-1964)
Swamp Women (16-Nov-1956)
The Ten Commandments (5-Oct-1956)
The Oklahoma Woman (15-Jun-1956)
Day the World Ended (1956)
Five Guns West (18-Apr-1955)
Island in the Sky (5-Sep-1953)
Sudden Fear (6-Aug-1952)
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Michael Connors
Born: августа 15, 1925 in Fresno, CA
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Also Known As: credited as Touch Connors Krekor Ohanian,
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Biography
Born Krekor Ohanian, American actor Mike Connors was born and raised in the heavily Armenian community of Fresno, California. He studied law at UCLA, but distinguished himself in sports (he'd gotten in on a basketball scholarship). While in the Air Force, Connors switched his career goals to acting on the advice of producer/director William Wellman, who'd remembered Connors' college athletic activities. Hollywood changed young Mr. Ohanian's last name to Connors, and since this was the era of "Rocks" and "Tabs" it was decided that the actor needed a suitably rugged first name. So Connors spent his first few acting years as Touch Connors, a nickname he'd gotten while playing college football. His first picture was the Joan Crawford vehicle Sudden Fear (1952) but handsome hunks were a glut on the market in the early '50s, so Connors found himself in "B" pictures, mostly at bargain-basement American International studios. Renaming himself "Mike," Connors was able to secure the lead role as an undercover agent on the 1959 detective series Tightrope. The series was a hit but was dropped from the network due to complaints about excessive violence, though it cleaned up in syndication for years afterward. After a few strong but non-starring roles in such films as Good Neighbor Sam (1963) and Where Love Has Gone (1964), Connors landed the title role in Mannix (1967), a weekly TV actioner about a trouble-prone private eye. For the next eight high-rated seasons, Connors' Joe Mannix was beaten up, shot at, cold-cocked and nearly run over in those ubiquitous underground parking lots each and every week. The series ran in over 70 foreign countries, allowing Connors a generous chunk of profits percentages in addition to his lofty weekly salary-- which became loftier each time that the actor announced plans to retire. Mike Connors has starred in the 1981 series Today's FBI and filmed a cop-show pilot titled Ohanian (playing a character with his own real name), but nothing has quite captured the public's fancy, or been as lucrative in reruns, as Connors' chef d'ouevre series Mannix. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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FILMOGRAPHY CONTINUED
1993
Hart to Hart Returns
Character played: Bill McDowell
1993
Murder, She Wrote: A Killing in Cork
Character played: Eric
1991
Ararat Beckons
Character played: Narrator
1989
Armenian Case
1989
Supplement to the Forgotten Genocide
1988
Legacy
1988
Fist Fighter
Character played: Billy Vance
1985
Too Scared to Scream
Character played: Lt. Dinardo
Credits: Producer
1981
Today's FBI
1980
Casino
Character played: Nick
1980
S. S. Casino
1980
Nightkill
Character played: Wendell Atwell
1979
Avalanche Express
Character played: Haller
1979
The Death of Ocean View Park
1979
High Midnight
1978
Long Journey Back
1976
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
1976
Revenge for a Rape
Character played: Travis Green
1972
Stigma
1966
Stagecoach
Character played: Hatfield
1966
Operazione Paradiso
Character played: Kelly
1965
Harlow
FILMOGRAPHY CONTINUED
1965
Situation Hopeless but Not Serious
Character played: Lucky
1964
Where Love Has Gone
Character played: Major Luke Miller
1964
Good Neighbor Sam
Character played: Howard Ebbets
1962
Panic Button
Character played: Frank Pagano
1960
Dalton That Got Away
1958
Live Fast, Die Young
Character played: Rick
1958
Suicide Battalion
Character played: Maj. Matt McCormack
1958
Suicide Battalion (1958) / Hell Squad
1957
Flesh and the Spur
Character played: Stacy
1957
Voodoo Woman
Character played: Ted Bronson
1957
Shake, Rattle and Rock
Character played: Garry
1956
The Ten Commandments
Character played: Amalekite Herder
Buy it on DVD
1956
The Day the World Ended
Character played: Tony
Buy it on DVD
1956
The Oklahoma Woman
Character played: Sheriff
1955
Swamp Women
Character played: Bob
Buy it on DVD
1955
Five Guns West
Character played: Hale Clinton
Buy it on DVD
1955
The Twinkle in God's Eye
Character played: Lou
1954
Jaguar
Character played: Marty Lang
1954
Day of Triumph
Character played: Andrew
1953
Sky Commando
Character played: Lt. Hobson Lee
1953
The 49th Man
Character played: Lt. Magrew
1953
Island in the Sky
Character played: Gainer
Buy it on DVD
1952
Sudden Fear
Character played: Junior Kearney
Buy it on DVD
195z
Maverick: The Collector's Edition, Vol. 1
Mike Connors
Mike Connors (real name Krikor Ohanian) (born August 15, 1925) is an American actor of Armenian descent, most famous for his title role in the television series Mannix. Connors was also a guest star on The Untouchables.
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Connors, Michael Actor
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MIKE CONNORS Майкл Коннорс
He has appeared in numerous motion pictures with such stars as Bing Crosby, Ann-Margaret, Robert Redford, Sir Alec Guiness, Jack Lemmon, and Bette Davis. But it was his eight years on television's "Mannix" for which Mike Connors is most remembered. That role earned him three Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe as Best Actor. Connors grew up in Fresno where he won letters in football, basketball and track. The son of Armenian immigrants, Connors recalls he was often the victim of discrimination in school. "People looked upon us as outsiders. That welded our family into a stonger unit and we all hung in there together with nothing to depend upon but each other." He turned down several athletic scholarships and instead entered the Army Air Corps during World War II. He later attended UCLA and was spotted by a Hollywood talent scout who arranged a screen test for the budding actor. Along with the series "Mannix" Connors also appeared in "Tightrope" and "Today's FBI." His list of movies includes "Stagecoach," "Where Love Has gone," and "Nightkill." Connors has worked on the miniseries "War and Remembrance" based on the Herman Wouk novel.
Коннорс Майк
Connors Mike
Ohanian Krekor
Оганьян Грегор
Mike Connors
AKA Krekor Ohanian
Born: 15-Aug-1925
Birthplace: Fresno, CA
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Joe Mannix
Military service: US Army Air Corps (WWII)
Mike Connors is best known for playing the title role in Mannix, a two-fisted TV detective show with a snappy theme song. Mannix had a knack for one-liners, and a bad habit of getting pistol-whipped by thugs when he came too close to unraveling each week's mystery.
In high school Connors played basketball, receiving the nickname "Touch" for playing tight defense. He attended UCLA on a basketball scholarship, and was approached after a ball game by William A. Wellman, who told him he had an actor's expressive face and suggested he call RKO. Billed as Touch Connors, his first film was the noir classic Sudden Fear with Joan Crawford and Jack Palance. He made several films with low-budget master Roger Corman, including Swamp Woman with Marie Windsor, and Five Guns West with Dorothy Malone.
In 1967 Connors began playing Mannix. Like Connors, Mannix was of Armenian extraction, and would occasionally offer pithy sayings in fluent Armenian. Gail Fisher played Mannix's secretary, winning an Emmy in the role, the first black actress so honored. Its theme was composed by Lalo Schifrin, who also scored Mission: Impossible and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. In at least ten separate episodes, Mannix frustrated the network censors by decorating the sets with tasteful nude paintings, or filming scenes in front of a statue of a naked woman. The censors could not see the nudity coming in the scripts, and they could not easily edit out the art after the shows had been filmed. Mannix thus effected a change whereby network censors now visit the sets of shows.
After Mannix, Connors was in charge of Today's FBI and hosted Crimes of the Century. He took two cruises on The Love Boat and was the special guest star on three of Angela Lansbury's Murder She Wrotes. And he played an aging Joe Mannix on an episode of Dick Van Dyke's Diagnosis Murder.
Wife: Mary Lou Wiley (two children)
University: University of California at Los Angeles
Golden Globe 1970 for Mannix
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Armenian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
TELEVISION
Tightrope Nick Stone (1959-60)
Mannix Joe Mannix (1967-75)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Gideon (10-Oct-1999)
War and Remembrance (13-Nov-1988)
Nightkill (18-Dec-1980)
Avalanche Express (27-Sep-1979)
Stagecoach (22-Apr-1966)
Harlow (23-Jun-1965)
Where Love Has Gone (2-Nov-1964)
Good Neighbor Sam (22-Jul-1964)
Swamp Women (16-Nov-1956)
The Ten Commandments (5-Oct-1956)
The Oklahoma Woman (15-Jun-1956)
Day the World Ended (1956)
Five Guns West (18-Apr-1955)
Island in the Sky (5-Sep-1953)
Sudden Fear (6-Aug-1952)
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http://entertainment.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=334724
Michael Connors
Born: августа 15, 1925 in Fresno, CA
Rate this person:
Actor
Also Known As: credited as Touch Connors Krekor Ohanian,
Bio Filmography Worked With
Biography
Born Krekor Ohanian, American actor Mike Connors was born and raised in the heavily Armenian community of Fresno, California. He studied law at UCLA, but distinguished himself in sports (he'd gotten in on a basketball scholarship). While in the Air Force, Connors switched his career goals to acting on the advice of producer/director William Wellman, who'd remembered Connors' college athletic activities. Hollywood changed young Mr. Ohanian's last name to Connors, and since this was the era of "Rocks" and "Tabs" it was decided that the actor needed a suitably rugged first name. So Connors spent his first few acting years as Touch Connors, a nickname he'd gotten while playing college football. His first picture was the Joan Crawford vehicle Sudden Fear (1952) but handsome hunks were a glut on the market in the early '50s, so Connors found himself in "B" pictures, mostly at bargain-basement American International studios. Renaming himself "Mike," Connors was able to secure the lead role as an undercover agent on the 1959 detective series Tightrope. The series was a hit but was dropped from the network due to complaints about excessive violence, though it cleaned up in syndication for years afterward. After a few strong but non-starring roles in such films as Good Neighbor Sam (1963) and Where Love Has Gone (1964), Connors landed the title role in Mannix (1967), a weekly TV actioner about a trouble-prone private eye. For the next eight high-rated seasons, Connors' Joe Mannix was beaten up, shot at, cold-cocked and nearly run over in those ubiquitous underground parking lots each and every week. The series ran in over 70 foreign countries, allowing Connors a generous chunk of profits percentages in addition to his lofty weekly salary-- which became loftier each time that the actor announced plans to retire. Mike Connors has starred in the 1981 series Today's FBI and filmed a cop-show pilot titled Ohanian (playing a character with his own real name), but nothing has quite captured the public's fancy, or been as lucrative in reruns, as Connors' chef d'ouevre series Mannix. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Sponsored Sites
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Get current information on this person instantly. (www.peoplefinders.com)
FILMOGRAPHY CONTINUED
1993
Hart to Hart Returns
Character played: Bill McDowell
1993
Murder, She Wrote: A Killing in Cork
Character played: Eric
1991
Ararat Beckons
Character played: Narrator
1989
Armenian Case
1989
Supplement to the Forgotten Genocide
1988
Legacy
1988
Fist Fighter
Character played: Billy Vance
1985
Too Scared to Scream
Character played: Lt. Dinardo
Credits: Producer
1981
Today's FBI
1980
Casino
Character played: Nick
1980
S. S. Casino
1980
Nightkill
Character played: Wendell Atwell
1979
Avalanche Express
Character played: Haller
1979
The Death of Ocean View Park
1979
High Midnight
1978
Long Journey Back
1976
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
1976
Revenge for a Rape
Character played: Travis Green
1972
Stigma
1966
Stagecoach
Character played: Hatfield
1966
Operazione Paradiso
Character played: Kelly
1965
Harlow
FILMOGRAPHY CONTINUED
1965
Situation Hopeless but Not Serious
Character played: Lucky
1964
Where Love Has Gone
Character played: Major Luke Miller
1964
Good Neighbor Sam
Character played: Howard Ebbets
1962
Panic Button
Character played: Frank Pagano
1960
Dalton That Got Away
1958
Live Fast, Die Young
Character played: Rick
1958
Suicide Battalion
Character played: Maj. Matt McCormack
1958
Suicide Battalion (1958) / Hell Squad
1957
Flesh and the Spur
Character played: Stacy
1957
Voodoo Woman
Character played: Ted Bronson
1957
Shake, Rattle and Rock
Character played: Garry
1956
The Ten Commandments
Character played: Amalekite Herder
Buy it on DVD
1956
The Day the World Ended
Character played: Tony
Buy it on DVD
1956
The Oklahoma Woman
Character played: Sheriff
1955
Swamp Women
Character played: Bob
Buy it on DVD
1955
Five Guns West
Character played: Hale Clinton
Buy it on DVD
1955
The Twinkle in God's Eye
Character played: Lou
1954
Jaguar
Character played: Marty Lang
1954
Day of Triumph
Character played: Andrew
1953
Sky Commando
Character played: Lt. Hobson Lee
1953
The 49th Man
Character played: Lt. Magrew
1953
Island in the Sky
Character played: Gainer
Buy it on DVD
1952
Sudden Fear
Character played: Junior Kearney
Buy it on DVD
195z
Maverick: The Collector's Edition, Vol. 1
Mike Connors
Mike Connors (real name Krikor Ohanian) (born August 15, 1925) is an American actor of Armenian descent, most famous for his title role in the television series Mannix. Connors was also a guest star on The Untouchables.
http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Mike_Connors
Connors, Michael Actor
http://www.armeniosonline.com.ar/famosos/index.htm
MIKE CONNORS Майкл Коннорс
He has appeared in numerous motion pictures with such stars as Bing Crosby, Ann-Margaret, Robert Redford, Sir Alec Guiness, Jack Lemmon, and Bette Davis. But it was his eight years on television's "Mannix" for which Mike Connors is most remembered. That role earned him three Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe as Best Actor. Connors grew up in Fresno where he won letters in football, basketball and track. The son of Armenian immigrants, Connors recalls he was often the victim of discrimination in school. "People looked upon us as outsiders. That welded our family into a stonger unit and we all hung in there together with nothing to depend upon but each other." He turned down several athletic scholarships and instead entered the Army Air Corps during World War II. He later attended UCLA and was spotted by a Hollywood talent scout who arranged a screen test for the budding actor. Along with the series "Mannix" Connors also appeared in "Tightrope" and "Today's FBI." His list of movies includes "Stagecoach," "Where Love Has gone," and "Nightkill." Connors has worked on the miniseries "War and Remembrance" based on the Herman Wouk novel.
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