Carroll O’Connor made us laugh for eight seasons as Archie Bunker. How much did O’Connor make for his starring role on All in the Family? Carroll O’Connor once dreamed of a career in theatre O’Connor considered the stage his home just as much as the set of a television show. In his memoir I Think …
Carroll O’Connor made us laugh for eight seasons as Archie Bunker. How much did O’Connor make for his starring role on All in the Family?
Carroll O’Connor once dreamed of a career in theatre
O’Connor considered the stage his home just as much as the set of a television show. In his memoir I Think I’m Outta Here, he said he hoped to continue his career in theatre, but his dream was crushed after a negative review in The San Francisco Chronicle. The play the reviewer slammed was titled A Certain Labor Day. O’Connor said the reviewer hated the play and he wasn’t shy about expressing his feelings.
The All in the Family star went on to explain that the person writing the review thought the play was about O’Connor’s life, and he was confused when the play was about something else entirely. As a result, tickets sales dwindled, and the play didn’t do well.
O’Connor said his interest in theatre died right along with the play. After that experience, he felt he was misguided to think he could make his mark as a stage actor.
One of O’Connor’s first theatre performances was in the 1958 production Ulysses in Nighttown. The following year, he appeared in the Broadway production God and Kate Murphy. His other theatre appearances include Brothers, Home Front, and Candide.
Carroll O’Connor used to act under the name George Roberts
Although he was known as Carroll O’Connor, this wasn’t always the name he used. During an interview with the Television Academy Foundation, he revealed he used to go by the stage name George Roberts. This was the name of an old friend of his who died.
O’Connor later decided to switch back to his birth name after joining a performing ats company where all the actors had Irish names. The head of the company asked him to change his name so that he would fit in with the rest of the group.
How much Carroll O’Connor was paid for ‘All in the Family’
O’Connor was paid $30,000 per episode for his appearance on All in the Family, according to The New York Times. O’Connor said contract negotiations were often unfair because they did not protect actors. According to him, the contracts were binding for the actors but not the producers. “Everybody knows it’s an unfair arrangement; that’s why there are these negotiations every year,” he told the newspaper during a 1975 interview.
O’Connor went on to say that anyone could do the same math as the late Bob Wood (the CBS president from 1969 to 1976). He said all it took was for an actor to determine how much a show earned. From there, it was simple to calculate how much money to ask for.
“Any actor can do arithmetic as well as Bob Wood,” said O’Connor during his New York Times interview. “An actor can figure out how much a show is grossing, and if he can’t, his agent or his business manager can.”
“The actor just tries to make a judgment as to what part of that enormous sum he is responsible for making, and then he goes in and asks the producer for more,” O’Connor continued. “It’s just like selling Ford cars. If a salesman sells $1million worth of Ford cars, he expects a big profit.”
Snorted Carroll O'Connor, the high‐paid (about $30,000 per episode) “All in the Family” star: “Wood is right when he says these contracts are like scraps of paper, because a contract between a performer and a producer or a network is of no value whatsoever to the performer, in that it does not protect him in any way.
"We got along as beautifully as anyone could have ever hoped," she said. "There wasn't any competition between us. We all revered one another because it was the perfect casting. Rob and I were the third set of kids – Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton had made two other pilots before we went to CBS.
However, Jean did want to move on from All in the Family. That part was very true. "So far, by doing other things in the summer, I've kept my identity as an actress separate. But, I was afraid if I went on as Edith, I'd never lose her," Jean admitted.
Jean Stapleton was around 47 years old when she started playing Edith Bunker in All In The Family. She portrayed the character of Edith Bunker from 1971 to 1979. Stapleton was born on January 19, 1923, in New York City. She was known for her exceptional acting skills and comedic timing.
Still, Struther was eager to begin the next phase of her life. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Struthers confessed she was "itching to leave" the series by the time she made her exit in 1978. "I was young, energetic. I figured I could go off and do anything," Struthers said.
The two-part All in the Family episode titled “Edith's 50th Birthday” was a dark look into Edith Bunker's (Jean Stapelton) attempted rape. It was the first time a television sitcom dealt directly with the subject.
They appear in a Christmas episode during the 1978–79 season, in which Archie, Edith, and Edith's niece Stephanie visit Michael and Gloria, exposing the fact that the couple have secretly separated due to troubles in their marriage, including Gloria's infidelity with one of Michael's college faculty colleagues.
In December 1978, in the middle of the ninth season of All in the Family, Jean Stapleton announced that she did not want to renew her contract at the end of that season, saying that she felt her character, Edith Bunker, had run its course on the show.
It was presented in a way that was unique for a 1970s series: Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton were seated at a console or spinet piano (played by Stapleton) and sang the tune together on-camera at the start of every episode, concluding with applause from a studio audience.
Stapleton was married to William Putch from 1957 until his death in 1983. The couple had two children: actor/writer/director John Putch and television producer Pamela Putch.
The show was filmed at CBS Television City in Hollywood from 1971 to 1975 and then was filmed at Metromedia Square also in Hollywood, from 1975 to 1979. Tandem Productions was the company that produced the show. Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin created the company.
Carroll O'Connor accused Perzigian of causing his son's death by selling him drugs. “He knew my son was in a very deadly way,” O'Connor said last month.
This costs Michael his well-paid job at UCSB and leaves the Stivics cash-strapped. Eventually, Michael abandons his wife and son to join a commune with one of his students, betraying a promise he makes to Archie before leaving for California that he will always take care of Gloria and Joey.
Despite pleas from Lear not to let Edith die, Stapleton left the show, re-titled "Archie's Place," in 1980, leaving Archie to carry on as a widower. "My decision is to go out into the world and do something else.
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