Chuck Connors

ActorWriter Apr 10 (died age 71) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. 1944–2023 (79 year career)

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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chuck Connors, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Film

Soylent Green

Tab Fielding

Film

The Big Country

Buck Hannassey

Film

Airplane II: The Sequel

The Sarge

Film

Old Yeller

Sanderson

Film

Tourist Trap

Mr. Slausen / Davey Slausen

Film

Move Over, Darling

Stephen Burkett

Film

Support Your Local Gunfighter

'Swifty' Morgan (uncredited)

Film

Designing Woman

Johnnie 'O'

Filmography

Acting (131)

Movies (83)

Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance

2023

as (archive footage)

5.0

Famous T&A 2

2022

as Mr. Slauson (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.5

Death Heads: Brain Drain

2018

3.4

Three Days to a Kill

1992

as Capt. Damian Wright

3.5

Salmonberries

1991

as Bingo Chuck

5.2

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

as The Rifleman

Face The Edge

as Buddy

Last Flight To Hell

as Red Farley

Trained To Kill

as Ed Cooper

Skinheads

as Mr. Huston

High Desert Kill

as Stan Brown

Taxi Killer

Terror Squad

as Chief Rawlings

Once Upon a Texas Train

1988

as Nash Crawford

5.1

Maniac Killer

1987

as Professor Roger Osborne

3.4

Inglorious Bastards 2: Hell's Heroes

as Senator Morris

Sakura Killers

as The Colonel

Summer Camp Nightmare

1987

as Mr. Warren

4.8

The Steel Collar Man

1985

as J.G. Willis

Kelsey's Son

1983

Balboa

1983

as Alabama Dern

2.5

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982

as The Sarge

6.1

The Capture of Grizzly Adams

1982

as Frank Briggs

3.2

The Best of Sex and Violence

as (archive footage)

The Vals

as Trish's Father

Target Eagle

as Sam Fisher

Bordello

as Jonathan

Virus

as Captain McCloud - HMS Nereid

6.3

Tourist Trap

1979

as Mr. Slausen / Davey Slausen

6.1

Day of the Assassin

1979

as Fleming

4.5

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979

as Self

Standing Tall

1978

as Maj. Roland Hartline

4.0

The Buck Stops Here

1978

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

1977

as Mike O'Toole

4.8

Nightmare in Badham County

1976

as Sheriff Danen

5.7

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

1976

as Sam Ivory

Legend of the Sea Wolf

as Wolf-Larsen

99 and 44/100% Dead

as Claw Zuckerman

Soylent Green

as Tab Fielding

The Mad Bomber

as William Dorn

Set This Town on Fire

1973

as Buddy Bates

The Horror at 37,000 Feet

1973

as Captain Ernie Slade

4.8

The Birdmen

1973

as Colonel Morgan Crawford

Embassy

as Kesten

The Proud and Damned

as Will Hansen

Pancho Villa

as Colonel Wilcox

Night of Terror

as Brian DiPaulo

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971

as 'Swifty' Morgan (uncredited)

The Deserter

as Reynolds

Hollywood Blue

as (archive footage)

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

1969

as Senator Robert Fraser

5.6

Western, Italian Style

1968

as Self

6.4

The Movie Orgy

1968

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone

1968

as Clyde Mac Kay

6.3

Autumn and Cardboard

1968

as Self

Ride Beyond Vengeance

1966

as Jonas Trapp

5.9

Broken Sabre

1965

as Jason McCord

Synanon

as Ben

Move Over, Darling

as Stephen Burkett

Flipper

as Porter Ricks

Geronimo

as Geronimo

The Big Country

as Buck Hannassey

The Lady Takes a Flyer

as Phil Donahoe

Death in Small Doses

as Mink Reynolds

Old Yeller

as Sanderson

Designing Woman

as Johnnie 'O'

Tomahawk Trail

as Sgt. Wade McCoy

The Hired Gun

as Judd Farrow

Walk the Dark Street

as Frank Garrick

Hold Back The Night

as Sgt. Ekland

Hot Rod Girl

as Detective Ben Merrill

Boy with a Knife

as Bud Williams

The Brush Roper

as Art Shirley

Good Morning, Miss Dove

as Bill Holloway

Target Zero

as Pvt. Moose

Three Stripes in the Sun

1955

as Idaho Johnson

7.0

Naked Alibi

1954

as Capt. Owen Kincaide

Dragonfly Squadron

as Capt. Warnowski

The Human Jungle

as Earl Swados

The Road to Edinburgh

1954

as Soldier

Trouble Along the Way

as Stan Schwegler

South Sea Woman

as Pvt. Davey White

Pat and Mike

as Police Captain

Television (48)

Paradise

1988

as Gideon McKay

5.4

Werewolf

1987

as Captain Janos Skorzeny

Spenser: For Hire

as King Powers

Murder, She Wrote

as Fred Keller

The Yellow Rose

as Jeb Hollister

Matt Houston

as Castanos

Stone

Roots

as Tom Moore

The Six Million Dollar Man

as Niles Lingstrom

Police Story

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

Night Gallery

as Roderick Blanco

The Don Knotts Show

as Self

The Name of the Game

as Governor Brill

Here's Lucy

as Chuck Connors

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1968

as Self (uncredited)

6.6

The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show

1968

as Self - Guest

Cowboy in Africa

as Jim Sinclair

Hero

Branded

as Captain Jason McCord

Miss USA

as Self - Judge

Arrest and Trial

as John Egan

The Virginian

as Gustaveson

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self - Co-Host

5.4

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

1959

as George Ainsworth

6.3

The Big Party

1959

as Self

The Rifleman

as Lucas McCain

The Dick Clark Show

as Self

Tales of Wells Fargo

as Rocky Nelson

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Lucas McCain

The Steve Allen Show

as Self

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

1956

as Self

6.0

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

West Point

Matinee Theater

Gunsmoke

as Sam Keeler

The Millionaire

as Hub Grimes

The Star and the Story

as Attendant

City Detective

General Electric Theater

as Soldier

Letter to Loretta

as Jess Hayes

Four Star Playhouse

as Mervyn

Adventures of Superman

1952

as Sylvester J. Superman

6.6

Cavalcade of America

1952

as Harry

3.5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Stanley O'Connor

What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Crew (2)

Television (2)

Branded

Story

The Rifleman

Story