Carroll O'Connor

Personal tragedy struck O'Connor in 1995 when his only son Hugh committed suicide after a long battle with drug addiction. In addition to authoring This Life (1980) and The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000), Poitier has also served as the Bahamian ambassador to Japan since April of 1997. In fact, he was once an English teacher before turning to acting. He acted in the first run of "Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway in 1959, and in its Hollywood adaptation in 1961. Although O'Connor was famous for murdering the English language as Archie Bunker, it should be pointed out he was highly educated and cultured. His other films include:. Mister O'Connor also appeared on episodes of many popular television series such as Gunsmoke, I Spy, The Fugitive, The Wild Wild West. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2002.

O'Connor's many film roles include Lonely Are The Brave (1962), Cleopatra (1963), In Harm's Way (1965), Hawaii (1966), The Devil's Brigade (1968) and Kelly's Heroes (1970). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1963 film Lilies of the Field and was the first African-American actor to win this award. He served in the Merchant Marine during World War II and began his acting career shortly afterwards. He was born in Miami, Florida and grew up on Cat Island in the Bahamas. O'Connor was born in The Bronx, New York and he lived during much of his youth in the New York City borough of Queens, the same borough where his character Archie Bunker would later live. Sidney Poitier (born February 20, 1927) is an American actor. The result was an absorbing, entertaining television show, which was based on the BBC show Til Death Us Do Part and its follow up, In Sickness and in Health with Archie Bunker based on Alf Garnett, but somewhat less abrasive. 1958: Foreign: Sidney Poitier for The Defiant Ones.

The writing on the show was consistently left of center but O'Connor deftly used every chance he had to skewer the liberal pieties of the day. 1958: Sidney Poitier for The Defiant Ones. O'Connor's own politics were left-wing, but he understood Archie Bunker, and played him not only with bombast and humor but with touches of vulnerability. 1963: Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field. O'Connor later starred in the television series In the Heat of the Night as Police Chief Bill Gillespie from 1988 to 1994. 1964: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field. John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1925 - June 21, 2001) was an American actor, famous for his portrayal of the character Archie Bunker in the television sitcoms All in the Family (1971-1979) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979-1983). 1992: Sidney Poitier.

1995: Sidney Poitier. 2000: Sidney Poitier, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn. 2001: Sidney Poitier. Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man.

Grammy Awards of 2001