Mike Connors

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Krekor Ohanian August 15 1925 January 26 2017 known professionally as Mike Connors was an American actor best known for playing private detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series Mannix from 1967 to 1975 a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award in 1970 the first of six straight nominations as well as four consecutive Emmy nominations from 1970 to 1973 Connors was an avid basketball player in high school nicknamed Touch by his teammates During World War II he served as an enlisted man in the United States Army Air Forces3 After the war he attended the University of California at Los Angeles on both a basketball scholarship and the GI Bill where he played under coach John Wooden Connors went to law school where he studied to become an attorney taking after his father Connorss film career started in the early 1950s when he made his acting debut in a supporting role opposite Joan Crawford and Jack Palance in the thriller Sudden Fear 1952 Connors married Mary Lou Willey on September 10 1949 when they were both UCLA students They had two children a son Matthew Gunnar Ohanian and a daughter Dana Lee Connors Connors died in Tarzana California at the age of 91 on January 26 2017 a week after being diagnosed with leukemia CLR