Thursday, January 26, 2017

Oh Joe, Say It Ain’t So

First it was Mary Tyler Moore. Now it’s Mike Connors. From Variety:
Mike Connors, best known for playing detective Joe Mannix on 1960s and ’70s show “Mannix,” died Thursday in Tarzana, Calif. He was 91.

He had been diagnosed a week ago with leukemia, according to his son-in-law Mike Condon.

“Mannix” ran for eight seasons, from 1968 to 1975, and was the last series from Desilu Productions. Connors won a Golden Globe for his performance as a tough, athletic investigator, who in quintessential detective-show style, insisted on doing things his own way and often got beat up in the process. He drove an impressive series of muscle cars, including a Dodge Dart and Chevrolet Camaro. …

The handsome square-jawed actor also appeared in early ’60s TV series “Tightrope!” and “Today’s F.B.I.” in the early ’80s. He later played Colonel Hack Peters in [the] Herman Wouk miniseries “War and Remembrance.”
(Hat tip to Bill Crider.)

READ MORE:Mike Connors, an Appreciation,” by Bill Koenig
(The Spy Command).

2 comments:

Steve Flanagan said...

It's also worth noting "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die", in which Connors was one of the few Eurospy leads who was not utterly loathsome!

Lee Goldberg said...

Thinking about Mike Connors today...and the fun we had brining back Mannix on Diagnosis Murder. It was a huge thrill for me and a childhood dream come true to write for Mannix :-)

http://articles.latimes.com/1997-02-09/news/tv-26810_1_murder-case