Carroll O'Connor

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1924 age 0

   Born

2. 1958 age 34

   CreditThe Defiant Ones

3. 1962 age 38

   CreditLonely Are the Brave

4. 1963 age 39

   CreditCleopatra

5. 1965 age 41

   CreditIn Harm's Way

6. 1966 age 42

   CreditHawaii

   CreditWhat Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

7. 1967 age 43

   CreditPoint Blank

   CreditWaterhole No. 3

8. 1968 age 44

   CreditThe Devil's Brigade

9. 1969 age 45

   CreditDeath of a Gunfighter

   CreditMarlowe

10. 1970 age 46

    CreditKelly's Heroes

11. 1978 age 54

    CreditA Different Approach

12. 2000 age 76

    CreditReturn to Me

13. 2001 age 76

    Died

• PLPhilip H. Lathrop3 titles
• CAClaude Akins3 titles
• JGJerry Goldsmith2 titles
• KDKirk Douglas2 titles
• DTDalton Trumbo2 titles
• ANAlex North2 titles
• GKGeorge Kennedy2 titles
• HCHarry Carey2 titles
• JCJames Coburn2 titles
• BEBlake Edwards2 titles

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• What about the press generally? Standard and tabloid, vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs, inanity and misbehavior. Reporters develop these stories from tips and yarns they pick up, or buy, in hallways, parking lots, costume and makeup rooms, bars and toilets. They also reprint "releases" from press agents, although release stuff is always laudatory, tepid and bland. Army Archerd at Variety is the only columnist I know who checks his tips and rumors by making personal phone calls. He is a respectable reporter and commentator, and his specialty is straight news from authentic sources. In the main, show-biz buzz-artists, discovering that celebrities are dull, not vivacious and absorbing, do not hesitate to rush misinformation into print, usually adding a soupcon of scandal. Some celebs, being witless, are not disturbed; they are getting the publicity they crave, and if it causes the world to marvel at the

  Carroll O'Connor, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Some misinformation is funny and really harmless. The blabber merchants have always trumpeted show-biz salaries as feverishly as if the security of the commonwealth depended on the revelations. They have never given the public the right information. I, for example, was widely reported to be making twenty-five million when in my best year I was making five. (There is a question, which I have considered elsewhere, whether the press ever gives us reliable information on anything.)

  Carroll O'Connor, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Have I changed with the passing years? No. I do talk less because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over? Because I have never changed my opinions about anything.

  Carroll O'Connor, CC BY-SA 4.0