“All those years on the show, Norman and his wife ... hired you because just like Carroll O’Connor, you have blue eyes and a fat face,” Struthers recalled Lear telling her.

“Carroll was carrying the weight of the world ... “He’s a billionaire, and I need the money.” Norman Lear: His Life and Times hits shelves on Tuesday, November 12. Please enter a name.

Carroll O’Connor’s and Jean Stapleton ... those situations against which Norman Lear’s comedies had avowedly rebelled. As much as Lear might have aspired to the reality of things, the ...

LOS ANGELES -- Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer ... and Valerie Bertinelli and made middle-aged superstars of Carroll O'Connor, Bea Arthur and Redd Foxx. Lear "took television ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer ... and Valerie Bertinelli and made middle-aged superstars of Carroll O'Connor, Bea Arthur and Redd Foxx. Lear "took television ...

Norman Lear, the legendary television producer who ... was "All in the Family," which premiered on CBS in 1971. It starred Carroll O'Connor as the working-class loudmouth Archie Bunker, who ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Norman Lear, the writer ... Rob Reiner and Valerie Bertinelli and made middle-aged superstars of Carroll O’Connor, Bea Arthur and Redd Foxx. Lear “took television away ...

In a 2014 interview, Norman Lear told me the crass conservative Archie Bunker, played by Carroll O'Connor, was inspired by his own father. For 11 consecutive years, at least one of Norman Lear's ...

Television producer Norman Lear, who died at the age of 101 on Tuesday ... "Family" followed the life of Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor), an unsympathetic, bigoted blue-collar man ...

Norman Lear in a dark blazer, center, speaks with Carroll O’Connor on the set of the show “All in the Family” in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1971. Jean Stapleton sits at a table in the ...

He was 101. Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor speaking to All in the Family show creator Norman Lear, Dec. 22, 1970. CBS/Getty Images Despite Lear’s own liberal sympathies, his characters were ...