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Contents 1 Roles 1.1 Starring Roles 1.2 Guest Starring Roles 1.3 Talk Show Appearances 2 Producer 3 Writer 4 Director 5 Awards and Accolades 5.1 Golden Globe Awards 5.2 Primetime Emmy Awards

Roles

Starring Roles

Series	Role	Year(s)	Season(s)
All in the Family	Archie Bunker	1971–1979	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Archie Bunker's Place	Archie Bunker	1979–1983	1	2	3	4
In the Heat of the Night	Bill Gillespie	1988–1995	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8

Guest Starring Roles

Series	Role	Episode	Airdate
Adventures in Paradise	Henry Gresham	2x07 - Hangman's Island	November 21, 1960
The Untouchables (1959)	Barney Lubin, lawyer	3x02 - Power Play	October 19, 1961
Naked City (1958)		3x33 - Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud	June 20, 1962
Dr. Kildare	Roy Drummond	2x02 - The Burning Sky	October 4, 1962
The Untouchables (1959)	Arnie Kurtz	4x06 - Bird in the Hand	October 30, 1962
Ben Casey		2x06 - Behold! They Walk an Ancient Road	November 5, 1962
Naked City (1958)		4x14 - Spectre of the Rose Street Gang	December 19, 1962
Stoney Burke	Harry Clark	1x20 - Webb of Fear	February 18, 1963
Bonanza	Tom Slayden	4x33 - The Boss	May 19, 1963
The DuPont Show of the Week	N.S. Kellogg	3x07 - The Silver Burro	November 3, 1963
The Outer Limits (1963)	Diemos	1x16 - Controlled Experiment	January 13, 1964
The Fugitive	Sheriff Bray	1x24 - Flight from the Final Demon	March 10, 1964
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Old John	1x15 - Long Live the King	December 21, 1964
Ben Casey	Dr. Clarke	4x25 - Three Li'l Lambs	March 29, 1965
Dr. Kildare	David Burnside	4x28 - The Time Buyers	April 8, 1965
The Time Tunnel	Gen./Col. Phillip Southall	1x05 - The Last Patrol	October 7, 1966
Gunsmoke	Hootie Kyle	12x07 - The Wrong Man	October 29, 1966
The Wild Wild West	Fabian Lavender	2x11 - The Night of the Ready-Made Corpse	November 25, 1966
Mission: Impossible	Josef Varsh	1x18 - The Trial	January 28, 1967
Gunsmoke	Major Glenn Vance Vanscoy	13x08 - Major Glory	October 30, 1967
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Guest Preformer	5x12 - Show #104	December 13, 1971
Party of Five	Jake	2x15 - Benefactors	January 31, 1996
Party of Five	Jake	2x16 - Comings and Goings	February 7, 1996
Party of Five	Jake	2x18 - Before and After	February 21, 1996
Party of Five	Jake	2x20 - Happily Ever After	March 20, 1996
Party of Five	Jake	2x22 - Spring Breaks (2)	March 27, 1996
Mad About You	Gus Stemple	5x06 - Jamie's Parents	November 12, 1996
Party of Five	Jake	3x13 - Christmas	December 18, 1996
Mad About You	Gus Stemple	5x23 - The Birth (1)	May 20, 1997
Mad About You	Gus Stemple	5x24 - The Birth (2)	May 20, 1997
Mad About You	Gus Stemple	7x19 - Paved with Good Intentions	May 13, 1999

Talk Show Appearances

Producer

Series	Year(s)	Producer Credit	Season(s)
In the Heat of the Night	1989–1995	Executive Producer

Writer

Series	Episode	Airdate
In the Heat of the Night	2x11 - A Trip Upstate	February 7, 1989
In the Heat of the Night	3x04 - First Girl	November 14, 1989
In the Heat of the Night	3x10 - King's Ransom	January 2, 1990
In the Heat of the Night	3x21 - Citizen Trundel	May 1, 1990
In the Heat of the Night	4x09 - A Problem Too Personal	November 20, 1990
In the Heat of the Night	4x20 - Just a Country Boy	March 19, 1991
In the Heat of the Night	4x21 - No Other Road	March 26, 1991
In the Heat of the Night	4x22 - A Turning	April 30, 1991
In the Heat of the Night	5x05 - Ruda's Awakening	November 5, 1991
In the Heat of the Night	5x12 - The Landlord	January 7, 1992
In the Heat of the Night	6x05 - Discovery	November 18, 1992
In the Heat of the Night	6x06 - Random's Child	November 25, 1992
In the Heat of the Night	6x09 - When the Music Stopped	December 16, 1992
In the Heat of the Night	6x16 - The Leftover Man (1)	March 3, 1993
In the Heat of the Night	6x17 - The Leftover Man (2)	March 3, 1993
In the Heat of the Night	6x20 - Even Nice People	April 28, 1993
In the Heat of the Night	6x22 - A Correct Settling	May 12, 1993
In the Heat of the Night	7x02 - Hatton's Turn (1)	September 18, 1993
In the Heat of the Night	7x03 - Hatton's Turn (2)	September 18, 1993
In the Heat of the Night	7x16 - Ches and the Grand Lady	January 26, 1994
In the Heat of the Night	7x21 - Poor Relations	March 30, 1994
In the Heat of the Night	7x23 - Give Me Your Life (1)	May 11, 1994
In the Heat of the Night	7x24 - Give Me Your Life (2)	May 11, 1994
In the Heat of the Night	8x02 - Who Was Geli Bendl?	December 9, 1994

Director

Series	Episode	Airdate
In the Heat of the Night	4x20 - Just a Country Boy	March 19, 1991
In the Heat of the Night	6x20 - Even Nice People	April 28, 1993
In the Heat of the Night	7x02 - Hatton's Turn (1)	September 18, 1993
In the Heat of the Night	7x03 - Hatton's Turn (2)	September 18, 1993

Awards and Accolades

Golden Globe Awards

(1 Win in 11 Nominations)

• Won: Best TV Actor - Musical/Comedy (1972)
  

All in the Family

Primetime Emmy Awards

(5 Wins in 9 Nominations)

• Won: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1972, 1977, 1978, 1979)
  

All in the Family

• Won: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (1989)
  

In the Heat of the Night