Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

135

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-04-10

Deathday

1992-11-10 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Also Known As

Touch Connors
Shailar Coby
Chuck Conners
Martin Herbert
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Chuck Connors

Biography

Chuck Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. His best known role from his forty-year film career was Lucas McCain in the 1960s ABC hit Western series The Rifleman.

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Known For

6.9%

Soylent Green

Apr 18, 1973

6.1%

Airplane II: The Sequel

Dec 10, 1982

7.2%

The Six Million Dollar Man

Jan 18, 1974

7.5%

Murder, She Wrote

Sep 30, 1984

7.5%

Murder, She Wrote

Sep 30, 1984

7.6%

The Big Country

Sep 30, 1958

6.1%

Tourist Trap

Mar 14, 1979

6.9%

Old Yeller

Dec 25, 1957

7.4%

Roots

Jan 23, 1977

6.6%

Gunsmoke

Sep 10, 1955

7.8%

Night Gallery

Dec 16, 1970

6.5%

Move Over, Darling

Dec 19, 1963

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Acting

2023

Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance as (archive footage)

2018

Death Heads: Brain Drain

1992

Three Days To A Kill as Capt. Damian Wright

1991		The Gambler Returns: The Luck Of The Draw as The Rifleman
1991		Salmonberries as Bingo Chuck

1990		Last Flight To Hell as Red Farley
1990		Face The Edge as Buddy

1989		High Desert Kill as Stan Brown
1989		Trained To Kill as Ed Cooper
1989		Skinheads as Mr. Huston

1988		Paradise
1988		Once Upon a Texas Train as Nash Crawford
1988		Terror Squad as Chief Rawlings
1988		Taxi Killer

1987		Sakura Killers as The Colonel
1987		Maniac Killer as Professor Roger Osborne
1987		Werewolf as Captain Janos Skorzeny
1987		Inglorious Bastards 2: Hell's Heroes as Senator Morris
1987		Summer Camp Nightmare as Mr. Warren

1985		Spenser: For Hire
1985		Spenser: For Hire as King Powers
1985		The Steel Collar Man as J.G. Willis

1984		Murder, She Wrote as Fred Keller
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Tyler Morgan

1983		The Yellow Rose as Jeb Hollister
1983		Kelsey's Son
1983		Balboa as Alabama Dern

1982		Airplane II: The Sequel as The Sarge
1982		The Vals as Trish's Father
1982		Matt Houston as Castanos
1982		Target Eagle as Sam Fisher
1982		The Capture of Grizzly Adams as Frank Briggs
1982		The Best of Sex and Violence as (archive footage)

1981

Bordello as Jonathan

1980		Virus as Captain McCloud - HMS Nereid
1980		Stone

1979		Day of the Assassin as Fleming
1979		When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion as Self
1979		Tourist Trap as Mr. Slausen

1978

Standing Tall as Maj. Roland Hartline

1977		The Night They Took Miss Beautiful as Mike O'Toole
1977		Roots as Tom Moore

1976		Nightmare in Badham County as Sheriff Danen
1976		Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free as Sam Ivory

1975

Legend of the Sea Wolf as Wolf-Larsen

1974		99 and 44/100% Dead as Claw Zuckerman
1974		The Six Million Dollar Man as Niles Lingstrom

1973		The Birdmen as Colonel Morgan Crawford
1973		Soylent Green as Tab Fielding
1973		The Mad Bomber as William Dorn
1973		Police Story
1973		The Horror at 37,000 Feet as Captain Ernie Slade
1973		Set This Town on Fire as Buddy Bates

1972		Pancho Villa as Colonel Wilcox
1972		Night of Terror as Brian DiPaulo
1972		The Proud and Damned as Will Hansen
1972		Embassy as Kesten

1971		The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971		Support Your Local Gunfighter as 'Swifty' Morgan (uncredited)

1970		Night Gallery as Roderick Blanco
1970		The Deserter as Reynolds
1970		Hollywood Blue as (archive footage)
1970		The Don Knotts Show as Self

1969

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City as Senator Robert Fraser

1968		Kill Them All and Come Back Alone as Clyde Mac Kay
1968		Here's Lucy as Chuck Connors
1968		The Name of the Game
1968		The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show as Self - Guest
1968		Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
1968		Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Guest Performer (uncredited)
1968		The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
1968		Western, Italian Style as Self

1967

Cowboy in Africa as Jim Sinclair

1966		Hero
1966		Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show
1966		Ride Beyond Vengeance as Jonas Trapp

1965		Synanon as Ben
1965		Broken Sabre as Jason McCord
1965		Branded as Captain Jason McCord

1963		Move Over, Darling as Stephen Burkett
1963		Arrest and Trial as Attorney John Egan
1963		Flipper as Porter Ricks
1963		Miss USA as Judge
1963		Miss USA as Entertainment

1962		The Virginian as Gustaveson
1962		Geronimo as Geronimo

1961

The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host

1959		The Big Party as Self
1959		The DuPont Show with June Allyson as George Ainsworth

1958		The Big Country as Buck Hannassey
1958		The Rifleman as Lucas McCain
1958		The Dick Clark Show as Self
1958		The Lady Takes a Flyer as Phil Donahoe

1957		Old Yeller as Sanderson
1957		The Hired Gun as Judd Farrow
1957		Death in Small Doses as Mink Reynolds
1957		Designing Woman as Johnnie 'O'
1957		Tales of Wells Fargo as Rocky Nelson
1957		Tomahawk Trail as Sgt. Wade McCoy

1956		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Lucas McCain
1956		The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
1956		West Point
1956		The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956		Hold Back The Night as Sgt. Ekland
1956		Hot Rod Girl as Detective Ben Merrill
1956		The Steve Allen Show as Self
1956		Walk the Dark Street as Frank Garrick
1956		Boy with a Knife as Bud Williams

1955		Good Morning, Miss Dove as Bill Holloway
1955		Three Stripes in the Sun as Idaho Johnson
1955		The Brush Roper as Art Shirley
1955		Target Zero as Pvt. Moose
1955		Matinee Theater
1955		Gunsmoke as Sam Keeler
1955		The Millionaire as Hub Grimes
1955		The Star and the Story as Attendant

1954		The Human Jungle as Earl Swados
1954		Naked Alibi as Capt. Owen Kincaide
1954		Dragonfly Squadron as Capt. Warnowski

1953		Letter to Loretta as Jess Hayes
1953		City Detective
1953		South Sea Woman as Pvt. Davey White
1953		Trouble Along the Way as Stan Schwegler
1953		General Electric Theater as Long Jack
1953		General Electric Theater as Soldier

1952		Cavalcade of America as Harry
1952		Four Star Playhouse as Mervyn
1952		Four Star Playhouse as Stan
1952		Adventures of Superman as Sylvester J. Superman
1952		Pat and Mike as Police Captain

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Stanley O'Connor

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Panelist

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Accepting Award
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter

Writing

1958

The Rifleman as Story