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Mike Connors (born August 15, 1925) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the long-running CBS television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series Tightrope. Born Krikor Ohanian in Fresno, California, of Armenian descent, he graduated from University of California at Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. An avid basketball player who was nicknamed "Touch" by his teammates, he is credited in his early films, such as Island in the Sky (1953), Swamp Women, a.k.a. Swamp Diamonds, Five Guns West (1955), and Flesh and the Spur (1957) as Touch Connors.
In 1956, still billed as Touch Connors, he played an Amalekite herder in Cecil B. DeMille`s The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston. He appeared in numerous television series, including the co-starring role in the 1955 episode "Tomas and the Widow" of the NBC western anthology series Frontier. He appeared in two Rod Cameron syndicated crime drama, City Detective and the western-themed State Trooper. He also appeared on two other syndicated series, The Silent Service, based on true stories of the submarine section of the United States Navy, and Sheriff of Cochise, set about Bisbee, Arizona. Connors thereafter launched his own series: (1) CBS`s Tightrope (September 8, 1959–September 13, 1960), (2) CBS`s Mannix (September 16, 1967–August 27, 1975) and (3) ABC`s Today`s F.B.I. (October 25, 1981–August 14, 1982). His Tightrope series was very popular in Mexico during the early 1960s, so the local recording company Discos Orfeon released a 45 rpm single of Connors sung in Spanish.
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