Mike Connors
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| Born | Krikor Ohanian August 15, 1925 Fresno, California United States |
Mike Connors (born August 15, 1925) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor best known for playing Joe Mannix in the long-running detective television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in the TV series Tightrope.
Born Krikor Ohanian in Fresno, California, he graduated from UCLA where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. An avid basketball player who was nicknamed "Touch" by his teammates, he is credited in his early films, such as Island in the Sky (1953), Swamp Women, a.k.a. Swamp Diamonds and Five Guns West (1955) as Touch Connors.
In 1956, still billed as Touch Connors, he played an Amalekite herder in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston.
His three TV series were CBS's Tightrope (September 8, 1959–September 13, 1960), CBS's Mannix (September 16, 1967–August 27, 1975) and ABC's Today's F.B.I. (October 25, 1981–August 14, 1982).
He currently lives in Encino, California.
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