Mike Connors, who played a hard-hitting private eye on the long-running TV series Mannix, has died. He was 91.
His son-in-law, Mike Condon, says the actor died Thursday afternoon at a Los Angeles hospital from recently-diagnosed leukemia.
Mannix debuted on CBS in 1967 and ran for eight years.
Viewers were intrigued by the smartly dressed, well-spoken Los Angeles detective who could still mix it up with thugs. Episodes normally climaxed with a brawl.
Connors once said that until Mannix, TV private investigators were hard-nosed and cynical, while Mannix "got emotionally involved" in his cases.
Actor Mike Connors is shown at a fan event on October 6, 2001 in Los Angeles. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Connors also starred in the short-lived TV shows Tightrope and Today's FBI. His movie roles included Sudden Fear with Joan Crawford, Island in the Sky, The Ten Commandments, and a remake of Stagecoach.
Later in his career, he acted in the acclaimed miniseries War and Remembrance and made multiple guest appearances on The Love Boat, Murder She Wrote. He was also a pitchman for several years for Clorets.
His last TV appearance, according to IMDB.com, was a guest turn in 2007 on Two and a Half Men.
Veteran actor Mike Connors, star of Mannix, dead at 91
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