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Connors Mike

Ohanian Krekor

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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 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

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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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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.