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Biography

A familiar face to television audiences in the 1960s and 70s. His most notable role was on "Peyton Place" where he played Elliot Carson.…more

Born

7/3/1927, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Birth Name

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (3)

Role
- Buck Rogers
  Dr. Elias Huer
  - S 1: Ep 24 Flight of the War Witch (2)
    3/27/80
  - S 1: Ep 23 Flight of the War Witch (1)
    3/27/80
  - S 1: Ep 22 Buck's Duel to the Death
    3/20/80
  - S 1: Ep 21 Space Rockers
    2/21/80
  - S 1: Ep 20 A Dream of Jennifer
    2/14/80
  - + 19 More Credits
- Peyton Place
  Elliot Carson [episodes 25-435]
  - S 5: Ep 54 pp-514
    6/2/69
  - S 5: Ep 53 pp-513
    5/26/69
  - S 5: Ep 52 pp-512
    5/19/69
  - S 5: Ep 51 pp- 511
    5/12/69
  - S 5: Ep 50 pp-510
    5/5/69
  - + 507 More Credits
- The Twilight Zone
  Col. Sloane
  - S 4: Ep 16 On Thursday We Leave For Home
    5/2/63
Recurring Role (10)

Role
- Dynasty
  Dr. Thomas Crayford
  - S 3: Ep 1 The Plea
    10/27/82
  - S 2: Ep 19 The Fragment
    4/7/82
  - S 2: Ep 16 The Baby
    3/3/82
  - S 2: Ep 15 The Party
    2/24/82
  - S 2: Ep 14 The Iago Syndrome
    2/17/82
- 3-2-1 Contact
  Dr. Elias Huer
  - S 1: Ep 45 Near/Far: Knowing Where You Are
    3/7/80
  - S 1: Ep 44 Near/Far: Space Travel
    3/6/80
  - S 1: Ep 43 Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Over Earth
    3/5/80
  - S 1: Ep 42 Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Near Home
    3/4/80
  - S 1: Ep 41 Near/Far: Seeing Isn't Always Believing
    3/3/80
- Cannon
  James Matthews
  - S 5: Ep 17 The Reformer
    1/7/76
- Barnaby Jones
  Stu Fannon
  - S 4: Ep 5 Honeymoon with Death
    10/17/75
- Barnaby Jones
  Peter Harris
  - S 2: Ep 2 Death Leap
    9/23/73
- The F.B.I.
  Maynard Gage
  - S 7: Ep 15 The Buyer
    1/2/72
- The F.B.I.
  Dennis Holland
  - S 4: Ep 21 The Attorney
    2/16/69
- The Defenders (1961)
  James Evans
  - S 3: Ep 26 May Day! May Day!
    4/18/64
  - S 3: Ep 19 The Secret
    2/8/64
  - S 3: Ep 3 The Captive
    10/12/63
- The Defenders (1961)
  Frank Evans
  - S 2: Ep 22 The Traitor
    2/16/63
- The Defenders (1961)
  Evans
  - S 1: Ep 22 The Empty Chute
    2/17/62
Guest Star (104)

Role
- Viva La Bam
  Himself
- Burning Zone
  William Helderman
  - S 1: Ep 11 Midnight of the Carrier
    1/7/97
- Walker, Texas Ranger
  Russell
  - S 3: Ep 25 Standoff (2)
    5/13/95
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
  Briam
  - S 5: Ep 21 The Perfect Mate
    4/27/92
- Doogie Howser, M.D.
  Don O'Brien
  - S 2: Ep 19 Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
    2/13/91
  - S 2: Ep 10 Don't Let the Turkeys Get You Down
    11/14/90
- Dallas
  Guest Star
  - S 10: Ep 24 Some Good, Some Bad
    3/20/87
- Murder, She Wrote
  Walter Revere
  - S 3: Ep 7 Deadline For Murder
    11/16/86
- T.J. Hooker
  John McAllister
  - S 5: Ep 17 Blood Sport (2)
    5/21/86
  - S 5: Ep 16 Blood Sport (1)
    5/21/86
- Hardcastle & McCormick
  Bucky O'Neil
  - S 3: Ep 11 Conventional Warfare
    12/9/85
- The A-Team
  Kerl
  - S 2: Ep 22 Semi-Friendly Persuasion
    5/8/84
- Knight Rider
  Phillip Hunt
  - S 2: Ep 3 Brother's Keeper
    10/9/83
- Matt Houston
  Dr. Elias Baker
  - S 1: Ep 21 Fear For Tomorrow
    4/3/83
- The Dukes of Hazzard
  Thackery
  - S 4: Ep 23 Bad Day in Hazzard
    3/5/82
- Vegas
  Michael Pierce
  - S 3: Ep 22 Nightmare Come True
    6/3/81
- M*A*S*H
  Dr. Norman Traeger
  - S 9: Ep 10 Operation Friendship
    1/26/81
- Trapper John, M.D.
  Dr. Edain
  - S 2: Ep 3 Slim Chance
    12/7/80
- Kaz
  Garrison
  - S 1: Ep 14 Kazinski Versus Bennett
    2/4/79
- Wonder Woman
  Colonel Robert Elliot
  - S 3: Ep 15 The Starships Are Coming
    2/2/79
- Police Woman (1978)
  Harry Triplett
  - S 4: Ep 21 Flip Of A Coin
    3/23/78
- Police Woman (1978)
  Jensen
  - S 4: Ep 14 The Human Rights Of Tiki Kim
    2/1/78
- Lou Grant
  Malcolm Findlay
  - S 1: Ep 13 Christmas
    12/13/77
- The Feather And Father Gang
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Judas Bug
    7/2/77
- The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
  Frank McGuire
  - S 5: Ep 13 The Cannibals
    1/20/77
- Wonder Woman
  Andros
  - S 1: Ep 10 Judgment from Outer Space (2)
    1/17/77
  - S 1: Ep 9 Judgment from Outer Space (1)
    1/15/77
- Columbo
  Edward Lytton
  - S 6: Ep 2 Old Fashioned Murder
    11/28/76
- Maude
  Dr. Herbert Lester
  - S 4: Ep 18 Maude's Mood (2)
    2/2/76
  - S 4: Ep 17 Maude's Mood (1)
    1/26/76
- Matt Helm
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 11 Murder on the Run
    12/13/75
- M*A*S*H
  Colonel Spiker
  - S 4: Ep 11 Of Moose and Men
    11/21/75
- Police Story
  Capt. Richards
  - S 3: Ep 8 The Empty Weapon
    11/21/75
- Phyllis
  David
  - S 1: Ep 8 The First Date
    10/27/75
- The Six Million Dollar Man
  Colonel Joe Gordon
  - S 3: Ep 6 The Deadly Test
    10/19/75
- Ellery Queen
  Ben Waterson
  - S 1: Ep 1 Too Many Suspects
    3/23/75
- All In The Family
  Roy Johnson
  - S 5: Ep 23 Edith's Friend
    2/22/75
- The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
  Roy
  - S 3: Ep 17 Endgame
    1/23/75
- Police Story
  Captain Faulkner
  - S 2: Ep 8 Wolf
    11/19/74
- The Rockford Files
  Charles Dexter
  - S 1: Ep 11 The Dexter Crisis
    11/15/74
- Get Christie Love
  O'Neil
  - S 1: Ep 9 Downbeat for a Dead Man
    11/13/74
- Nakia
  Carlyle
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Driver
    11/2/74
- Medical Center
  Barney
  - S 6: Ep 6 May God Have Mercy
    10/21/74
- Police Story
  Sergeant Matthew Carrothers
  - S 2: Ep 2 Requiem for C.Z. Smith
    9/17/74
- Manhunter
  Ben Marks
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Ma Gantry Gang
    9/11/74
  - S 1: Ep 0 The Manhunter-Pilot
    2/26/74
- Insight
  David
  - S 14: Ep 46 Where Were You During the Battle of the Bulge, Kid?
    7/21/74
- Doc Elliot
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 13 Things That Might Have Been
    4/3/74
- Insight
  Mr. Dilger
  - S 14: Ep 29 A Prayer for the Abyss
    3/17/74
- Banacek
  Howard James
  - S 2: Ep 5 Horse of a Slightly Different Color
    1/22/74
- The F.B.I.
  Guest Star
  - S 9: Ep 10 The Killing Truth
    12/9/73
- Cannon
  Martin Ross
  - S 3: Ep 2 He Who Digs a Grave (2)
    9/12/73
  - S 3: Ep 1 He Who Digs a Grave (1)
    9/12/73
- Columbo
  Mike Hathaway
  - S 2: Ep 8 Double Shock
    3/25/73
- Search
  Paul Kleinschmidt
  - S 1: Ep 19 The Mattson Papers
    2/28/73
- The F.B.I.
  Albert Dirks
  - S 8: Ep 22 The Detonator
    2/25/73
- The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
  Lt. Roy Devitt
  - S 1: Ep 21 Trail of the Serpent
    2/22/73
- Cannon
  Dr. Peter Collister
  - S 2: Ep 16 Death of a Stone Seahorse
    1/17/73
- Medical Center
  Max
  - S 4: Ep 4 Wall of Silence
    10/11/72
- Gunsmoke
  Gideon
  - S 18: Ep 4 The Judgement
    10/2/72
- The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
  Roy Devitt
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Thirty-Year Pin
    9/23/72
- Banyon
  Harry
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Old College Try
    9/22/72
- Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
  Attorney Whitledge
  - S 1: Ep 20 The Color of Respect
    2/10/72
- The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
  Guest Star
  - S 3: Ep 10 In Sudden Darkness
    1/30/72
- Hawaii Five-O
  Jonathan Kaye
  - S 4: Ep 17 The Ninety-Second War (2)
    1/18/72
- Longstreet
  Dr. Franklin
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Girl with a Broom
    11/4/71
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Shape of Nightmares
    10/28/71
- Cannon
  Senator Edgar Lassiter
  - S 1: Ep 5 Scream of Silence
    10/12/71
- Insight
  Maynard Ballman
  - S 11: Ep 48 The Sandalmaker
    7/31/71
- Hawaii Five-O
  Sheldon Orwell
  - S 3: Ep 16 Ten Thousand Diamonds and a Heart
    1/6/71
- Mannix
  Albert Tucker
  - S 4: Ep 14 Round Trip to Nowhere
    1/2/71
- Gunsmoke
  Arnie Sprague
  - S 16: Ep 11 The Witness
    11/23/70
- Dan August
  Max Winslow
  - S 1: Ep 6 Invitation To Murder
    11/4/70
- The Young Lawyers
  Lew Fulton
  - S 1: Ep 6 We May Be Better Strangers
    10/26/70
- Daniel Boone
  Second
  - S 6: Ep 26 Israel and Love
    5/7/70
- Medical Center
  Dr. Martin Lambert
  - S 1: Ep 24 His Brother's Keeper
    4/1/70
- Lancer
  Samuel
  - S 2: Ep 19 Splinter Group
    3/3/70
- Insight
  Guest Star
  - S 10: Ep 25 The Day God Died
    2/20/70
- The Name of the Game
  Callahan
  - S 2: Ep 15 The Brass Ring
    1/9/70
- Bracken's World
  Stuart Saxon
  - S 1: Ep 10 A Package Deal
    11/28/69
- The F.B.I.
  Walter Hazlett
  - S 5: Ep 7 Flight
    10/26/69
- Judd for the Defense
  Nay Delavan
  - S 1: Ep 22 Kingdom of the Blind
    2/16/68
- The F.B.I.
  Roy Enfield
  - S 2: Ep 27 The Satellite
    4/2/67
- Profiles in Courage
  Sidney Rigdon
  - S 1: Ep 10 Gen. Alexander William Doniphan
    1/17/65
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Dr. Davis
  - S 2: Ep 10 The Cage
    11/24/64
- Twelve O'Clock High
  Major Jack Temple
  - S 1: Ep 7 Decision
    11/6/64
- The Outer Limits
  Paul Tanner
  - S 2: Ep 1 Soldier
    9/19/64
- Camera Three
  Cardinal Hamilcar
  - S 9: Ep 31 The Deluge at Norderney [Part II]
    5/10/64
  - S 9: Ep 30 The Deluge at Norderney [Part I]
    5/3/64
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Joe Hallop
  - S 1: Ep 25 Taps for a Dead War
    3/17/64
- The Outer Limits
  Clint Anderson
  - S 1: Ep 24 Moonstone
    3/9/64
- East Side/West Side
  Mr. Stuart
  - S 1: Ep 14 The $5.98 Dress
    1/13/64
- Espionage
  Corky Halpern
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Whistling Shrimp
    11/20/63
- The Great Adventure
  General Breckinridge
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis
    11/15/63
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Lund
  - S 1: Ep 9 Ticket to Alaska
    11/12/63
- The Armstrong Circle Theatre
  Guest Star
  - S 14: Ep 17 Aggressor Force
    5/8/63
  - S 14: Ep 2 Smash-Up
    10/10/62
  - S 13: Ep 12 Merchants of Evil
    3/28/62
- The Nurses (1962)
  Bert Handell
  - S 1: Ep 25 Party Girl
    3/28/63
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  Halstead
  - S 1: Ep 16 What Really Happened
    1/11/63
- The Armstrong Circle Theatre
  Frank Morris
  - S 14: Ep 7 Escape to Nowhere
    12/19/62
- Camera Three
  Himself
  - S 7: Ep 38 Other Voices
    6/17/62
  - S 7: Ep 27 Tor House
    3/18/62
  - S 4: Ep 24 Poems of Robert Frost
    2/15/59
- The United States Steel Hour
  Guest Star
  - S 8: Ep 21 The Leonardi Code
    5/17/61
- Shirley Temple Theatre
  Captain Jim Hawkins
  - S 1: Ep 21 The Return of Long John Silver
    2/19/61
- Shirley Temple's Storybook
  Captain Jim Hawkins
  - S 2: Ep 21 The Return of Long John Silver
    2/19/61
- Diagnosis: Unknown
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 3 Gina, Gina
    9/6/60
- The DuPont Show Of The Month
  Morgan
  - S 3: Ep 7 Treasure Island
    3/5/60
- Sunday Showcase
  Jabez Stone
  - S 1: Ep 15 The Devil And Daniel Webster
    2/14/60
- The Play of the Week
  Father Shaughnessy
  - S 1: Ep 7 The White Steed
    11/23/59
- The Play of the Week
  Yslaev
  - S 1: Ep 5 A Month in the Country
    11/9/59
- The DuPont Show Of The Month
  Ames
  - S 3: Ep 2 The Fallen Idol
    10/14/59
- Brenner
  Tyler
  - S 1: Ep 6 Word of Honor
    7/11/59
- The DuPont Show Of The Month
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 9 Billy Budd
    5/25/59
- The DuPont Show Of The Month
  James Wylie
  - S 2: Ep 5 What Every Woman Knows
    1/28/59
Production Management (1)

Role
- Modern Marvels
  Production Management
  - S 10: Ep 18 T-34: Russian Victory
    5/10/03
Line Producer (1)

Role
- Modern Marvels
  Line Producer
  - S 10: Ep 41 Aircraft Carrier
    8/15/03
  - S 10: Ep 11 Black Hawk: Night Stalker
    3/26/03

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Trivia
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- Tim has a "Bacon Number" of 2. He was in Across 110th Street with Nick Lapadula, Nick was in Only When I Laugh with Kevin Bacon.
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- When Buster Crabbe, who played Buck Rogers in the 1930's, appeared on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Tim was overjoyed. Having seen the original films the two spent a lot of time on set talking about them.
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- As a child Tim O'Connor was about as big a fan of Buck Rogers as anyone could be. He loved the comic strip so much that he had a space helmet and ray gun that he wore everywhere.
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Quotes
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- Tim O'Connor: I've always been spotted in public. I played Elliot Carson on Peyton Place for four and a half years and no one is more loyal than a soap opera Fan.
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- Tim O'Connor: (upon be called back to the set from an interview to re-shoot a scene after multiple re-shoots of the same scene.) My God! This scene is turning into an epic!
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- Tim O'Connor: (emphatically accepting the role of Dr. Elias Huer on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) Hell! Yes, I will!
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