TV legend Norman Lear had heard it before.
"That face screams Irish!”
Lear was on the set of a new TV sitcom he was writing and producing, about a working-class family in Queens, New York.
The star of the show – with the working title "All in the Family" – was a New York City-born Irish American actor named John Carroll O'Connor, who played a narrow-minded union guy … [Read more...] about Archie’s Irish “Family” –
50 Years Later
all in the family
Archie’s Irish “Family” –
Carroll O’Connor
He called his wife "Dingbat." He called his daughter a "weepy Nellie atheist." Puerto Ricans "spics"; Jews "yids." He was terrified of African Americans, homosexuals, feminists and evolutionists. But most of all Archie Bunker was afraid of change. He sat in his mangy armchair amidst peeling wallpaper and dingy windows and preached his sermon to whoever stopped by. And … [Read more...] about Carroll O’Connor