'All in the Family' and How Carroll O'Connor Became Archie Bunker
3 months ago Carroll O’Connor. Archie Bunker. As far as the television audience is concerned, they’re one and the same — at least visually, though obviously not in character. But what audiences have likely forgotten in their enjoyment of All in the Family over these past 50 years is the fact that Carroll had a life and career pretty far-removed from the Bunkers’ Queens, New York living room. “I had no ambition to be an actor,” he admitted in 1972. “I wanted to have a permanent job as a professor of European history at some university. I thought on the side I’d write a histori...
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