The Lake Arrowhead, CA, retreat "Mannix" star Mike Connors built is on the market for the. Marylou Connors and Mike Connors during "Crocodile Dundee II" Los Angeles Premiere at Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, United States. During World War II, he served as an enlisted man in the United States Army Air Forces. A day after Mary Tyler Moore, we say goodbye to "Mannix" star Mike Connors. | Source: Getty Images. Mike Connors Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family He voiced the character Chipacles in the Disney animated series Hercules from 1998 to 1999. In an effort to make his character 'more real' than the traditional cynical Bogart-style gumshoe, he played Mannix as being more 'humane', often becoming emotionally involved in his cases and -- just as often -- ending up on the wrong end of a knuckle sandwich (in the course of the 194 episodes, poor old Joe was knocked unconscious on fifty-five occasions and shot seventeen times), or watching his beautiful client walk off with another man.Another subsequent starring role as a modern-day G-Man in the short-lived Today's F.B.I. Here's What Happened to 'Mannix' Star Mike Connors - Closer Weekly Marylou Connors - IMDb The aspiring actor explained that his teammates had dubbed him Touch, due to his soft touch with the basketball. Connors, born Krekor Ohanian in 1925, was from an Armenian community in Fresno. I really married well. Connors and his wife, Mary Lou, were married in 1949 and had two children: a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Dana. He thought the program would lose the suspense element, Because the whole premise was this guy, all by himself, on a tightrope. When he gets a sidekick, it loses the threat and the danger, and the whole premise is in the toilet.. [14] In 1964, Connors appeared in a pinch-hit role for Raymond Burr as attorney Joe Kelly in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Bullied Bowler." Connors himself performed the stuntwork of dangling from a rope ladder attached to a helicopter flying off the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro when the local stuntman refused to do it. CHUCK CONNORS, TV'S 'RIFLEMAN,' IS DEAD AT 71 - Buffalo News After the war, he returned to his studies and his balling. Relationship Facts of Chuck Norris. After honing his skills in the UCLA drama department, Ohanian signed to theFamous Artist Agency, where he was handled by agentHenry Wilson. After graduation he studied law for two years but his good looks and imposing presence attracted him to acting. He was a guest at the 2014 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention. Mike Connors died on January 26 . Geoffrey Mark, the author of "The Lucy Book," would say: "Family was terribly important to him. [4][5][6], Connors was an avid basketball player in high school, nicknamed "Touch" by his teammates. "Mannix got emotionally involved. (Getty . Mike Connors was happily married to Mary Lou Willey for 67 years. In 1998, the UC Irvine College of Medicine's Brain Imaging Center Committee awarded Connors the Silver Ribbon Award for his contributions. In addition to his work on television, he appeared in numerous films, includingSudden Fear(1952),Situation Hopeless But Not Serious(1965),Stagecoach(1966),Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die(1966), andToo Scared to Scream(1985), which he also produced.