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Chuck Connors
Birthday: April 10, 1921

Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height: 6' 5"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Chuck Connors. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Chuck Connors attended Seton Hall University before embarking on a career in professional sports. He first played basketball with the Boston Celtics, then baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. Hardly a spectacular player — while with the Cubbies, he hit .233 in 70 games — Connors was eventually shipped off to Chicago's Pacific Coast League farm team, the L.A. Angels. Here his reputation rested more on his cut-up antics than his ball-playing prowess. While going through his usual routine of performing cartwheels while rounding the bases, Connors was spotted by a Hollywood director, who arranged for Connors to play a one-line bit as a highway patrolman in the 1952 Tracy-Hepburn vehicle Pat and Mike. Finding acting an agreeable and comparatively less strenuous way to make a living, Connors gave up baseball for films and television. One of his first roles of consequence was as a comic hillbilly on the memorable Superman TV episode "Flight to the North." In films, Connors played a variety of heavies, including raspy-voiced gangster Johnny O in Designing Woman (1957) and swaggering bully Buck Hannassy in The Big Country (1958). He switched to the Good Guys in 1958, when he was cast as frontiersman-family man Lucas McCain on the popular TV Western series The Rifleman. During the series' five-year run, he managed to make several worthwhile starring appearances in films: he was seen in the title role of Geronimo (1962), which also featured his second wife, Kamala Devi, and originated the role of Porter Ricks in the 1963 film version of Flipper. After Rifleman folded, Connors co-starred with Ben Gazzara in the one-season dramatic series Arrest and Trial (1963), a 90-minute precursor to Law and Order. He enjoyed a longer run as Jason McCord, an ex-Army officer falsely accused of cowardice on the weekly Branded (1965-1966). His next TV project, Cowboy in Africa, never got past 13 episodes. In 1972, Connors acted as host/narrator of Thrill Seekers, a 52-week syndicated TV documentary. Then followed a great many TV guest-star roles and B-pictures of the Tourist Trap (1980) variety. He was never more delightfully over the top than as the curiously accented 2,000-year-old lycanthrope Janos Skorzeny in the Fox Network's Werewolf (1987). Shortly before his death from lung cancer at age 71, Chuck Connors revived his Rifleman character Lucas McCain for the star-studded made-for-TV Western The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1993).

Movie Credits
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991)
[ David Carradine ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Brian Keith ][ Doug McClure ][ Don S. Davis ]
Salmonberries (1991)
3 Days to a Kill (1991)
[ Van Johnson ][ Fred Williamson ]
Ultimo volo all'inferno, L' (1990)
[ Reb Brown ]
Face the Edge (1990)
[ Russell Todd ]
A Matter of Honor: Part 2 (1989)
A Matter of Honor: Part 1 (1989)
[ Christopher McDonald ]
High Desert Kill (1989)
Skinheads (1989)
Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)
[ Richard Widmark ][ Jack Elam ][ Harry Carey Jr. ][ Ken Curtis ]
Taxi Killer (1988)
[ Van Johnson ]
Trained to Kill (1988)
[ Frank Zagarino ]
Summer Camp Nightmare (1987)
Maniac Killer (1987)
Eroi dell'inferno (1987)
[ Fred Williamson ]
Terror Squad (1987)
Sakura Killers (1987)
Werewolf (1987)
[ Linden Ashby ][ Brian Thompson ][ Kevin Gage ][ Ethan Phillips ]
Balboa (1986)
[ Tony Curtis ]
Promised Land (1985)
All American Cowboy (1985)
[ Ken Curtis ]
Joshua Peabody Died Here - Possibly (1985)
[ John Astin ]
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
[ William Shatner ][ Rip Torn ][ Peter Graves ][ Raymond Burr ][ Hervé Villechaize ]
Jugando con la muerte (1982)
[ Max von Sydow ][ George Peppard ]
The Capture of Grizzly Adams (1982)
[ G.W. Bailey ][ Keenan Wynn ]
The Vals (1982)
Mujeres de Jeremías, Las (1981)
Old Yeller: Part 1 (1980)
Fukkatsu no hi (1980)
[ Edward James Olmos ][ Glenn Ford ][ Robert Vaughn ][ George Kennedy ][ Sonny Chiba ]
Bordello (1979)
Day of the Assassin (1979)
[ Glenn Ford ][ Richard Roundtree ]
Tourist Trap (1979)
Standing Tall (1978)
[ Robert Forster ]
The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)
[ Henry Gibson ]
Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
[ Robert Reed ][ Ralph Bellamy ]
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free (1976)
[ Slim Pickens ][ Dan O'Herlihy ]
The Cutting Edge (1975)
Lupo dei mari, Il (1975)
Across the Line (1974)
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
[ Richard Harris ]
The Mad Bomber (1973)
[ Vince Edwards ]
Soylent Green (1973)
[ Charlton Heston ][ Joseph Cotten ][ Dick Van Patten ][ Mike Henry ]
The Police Story (1973)
[ Vic Morrow ][ John Bennett Perry ]
The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)
[ William Shatner ][ Buddy Ebsen ][ Paul Winfield ]
Set This Town on Fire (1973)
[ Carl Betz ]
The Proud and the Damned (1972)
[ Cesar Romero ][ Aron Kincaid ]
Embassy (1972)
[ Max von Sydow ][ Ray Milland ][ Richard Roundtree ]
Pancho Villa (1972)
[ Telly Savalas ]
Night of Terror (1972)
[ Martin Balsam ]
The Birdmen (1971)
[ Tom Skerritt ][ Rene Auberjonois ][ Max Baer Jr. ][ Doug McClure ]
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
[ James Garner ][ Harry Morgan ][ Jack Elam ]
The Deserter (1971)
[ John Huston ][ Ricardo Montalban ][ Richard Crenna ][ Slim Pickens ][ Bekim Fehmiu ]
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
[ Robert Ryan ]
Ammazzali tutti e torna solo (1968)
[ Frank Wolff ]
Cowards Die Many Times (1966)
Headed for Doomsday (1966)
The Assassins: Part 2 (1966)
The Assassins: Part 1 (1966)
[ Peter Graves ]
Blade Rider, Revenge of the Indian Nations (1966)
[ Burt Reynolds ][ Lee Van Cleef ]
Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)
[ Bill Bixby ][ Jamie Farr ][ James MacArthur ][ Claude Akins ]
Synanon (1965)
Move Over, Darling (1963)
[ James Garner ][ Don Knotts ][ John Astin ]
Flipper (1963)
Geronimo (1962)
[ Adam West ]
The Queue (1961)
Mail Order Groom (1960)
Bloodlines (1959)
[ Warren Oates ]
The Big Country (1958)
[ Gregory Peck ][ Charlton Heston ]
Horse Thief (1958)
The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958)
Old Yeller (1957)
[ Walt Disney ]
The Hired Gun (1957)
[ Vince Edwards ]
Death in Small Doses (1957)
[ Peter Graves ]
The Thin Rope (1957)
Designing Woman (1957)
[ Gregory Peck ]
Tomahawk Trail (1957)
[ Harry Dean Stanton ]
Hold Back the Night (1956)
[ Peter Graves ]
Walk the Dark Street (1956)
The Operator and the Martinet (1956)
Hot Rod Girl (1956)
[ Dabbs Greer ]
The Good Sister (1955)
Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
[ Robert Stack ]
Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)
[ Dick York ][ Aldo Ray ]
Target Zero (1955)
[ Charles Bronson ][ Strother Martin ]
Vote of Confidence (1954)
The Human Jungle (1954)
[ Claude Akins ]
The Road to Edinburgh (1954)
Naked Alibi (1954)
[ Sterling Hayden ]
Dragonfly Squadron (1954)
South Sea Woman (1953)
[ Burt Lancaster ][ Strother Martin ]
Code Two (1953)
[ Keenan Wynn ]
Trouble Along the Way (1953)
[ John Wayne ][ Dabbs Greer ]
Pat and Mike (1952)
[ Katharine Hepburn ][ Charles Bronson ][ Spencer Tracy ][ Aldo Ray ]

Trivia

  • Played major league baseball (for the Chicago Cubs) in 1951.
  • Connors also played professional basketball with the Boston Celtics.
  • Four sons; Mike, Jeff, Steve, Kevin.
  • Chuck Person, an NBA Player, is named after him.
  • According to a article on TV westerns in Time Magazine (March 30, 1959), Connors stood 6'5" tall, weighed 215 pounds, and had chest-waist-hips measurements of 45-34-41
  • Almost suffered the same fate in each of his two TV westerns. On a 10-2-61 episode of "The Rifleman" called "The Vaqueros," Chuck was stripped to the waist, tied to a tree, and left to die under a scorching sun by a group of Mexican bandits. On an 11-14-65 episode of "Branded" called "Fill No Glass for Me," he was stripped to the waist, tied to a tree, and left to die under a scorching sun by a group of Indian warriors. (In both cases he survived.)
  • Very likely the only guest commentator on Monday Night Baseball to use the F-word.
  • Received a star on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame" in 1985.
  • Was elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1991.
  • In a 1997 biography titled "The Man Behind the Rifle," author David Fury says that "Chuck" Connors acquired his nickname while an athlete playing first base. He had a habit of calling to the pitcher: "Chuck it to me, baby, chuck it to me!"
  • Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1991.
  • Lucas McCain, Connors' character on "The Rifleman" (1958), was ranked #32 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
  • He was the first NBA player to shatter a backboard, he did it while playing for the Boston Celtics in 1946.
  • Accepted the role of Mr. Slausen in Tourist Trap (1979) because he wanted to "become the Boris Karloff of the 80's".
  • On October 10, 1950, he was traded by the Brooklyn Dodgers - with whom he had appeared with in one game in 1949 - with Dee Fondy to the Chicago Cubs for Hank Edwards and cash. He spent part of the 1951 season with the Cubs.
  • Before the 1940 baseball season, he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent.
  • Was an altar boy and parishioner at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
  • He was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party as well as a frequent guest at the White House during the administration of his close friend President Richard Nixon.

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