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Kevin Joseph Connors (April 10, 1921 - November
10, 1992) was an actor and professional basketball
and baseball player.

Born to Ireland|Irish-United States|American
parents in Brooklyn, New York, Connors grew up
with a sister named Gloria. He attended a private
school|private high school and later attended
Seton Hall in South Orange, New Jersey. He then
dropped out in 1942 to join the army at Camp
Campbell, Kentucky and next went to West Point.

After his discharge from the military in 1946, he
joined the Boston Celtics and left the team for
spring (season)|spring training with the Brooklyn
Dodgers. He played for numerous minor league teams
before joining the Dodgers in 1949 for a few
weeks. Later, in 1951 he also played for the
Chicago Cubs. He was then sent to the minor
leagues again, in 1952, and there he was spotted
by an MGM casting director for an upcoming Spencer
Tracy|Tracy-Katharine Hepburn|Hepburn film Pat and
Mike, in which he played a state  police captain.

In addition to his films, he also starred in the
television Western (genre)|Western series The
Rifleman, as well as the 1967 Cowboy in Africa TV
series, alongside Ronald Howard (British
actor)|Ronald Howard and Tom Nardini. In 1973 and
1974 he hosted a television series called Thrill
Seekers.  Chuck Connors is also a character in O.
Henry's short story "Sisters of the Golden Circle"
which says that he led reform in New York in O.
Henry's time.

In 1991, he was inducted into the Western
Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy &
Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.

Chuck Connors died of lung cancer in 1992 at the
age of 71 in Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles,
California.


==Brief Filmography==
* Terror Squad (1987) ... as Chief Rawlings
* Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) ... as The Sarge
* Roots (mini-series) (1977) ... as Tom Moore
* Soylent Green (1973) ... as Tab Fielding
* Go Kill Everybody and Come Back Alone (1968)
...as Clyde
* Dark Shadows (1966) 
* Move Over, Darling (1963) .... as Adam
* The Big Country (1958)
* Old Yeller (1957) ... as Burn Sanderson
* Pat and Mike (1952) ... as Police captain


See also: Notable figures in Western films|Other
notable figures in Western films

==External link==

*imdb name|id=0175488|name=Chuck Connors

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