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30 NAMES TO REMEMBER / Carroll O'Connor, Actor

(Newsday) Marc Ferris; 12-19-1999

Carroll O'Connor, the actor who indelibly reinforced a negative stereotype of Queens as Archie Bunker in the TV series "All in the Family," is intimately familiar with the environs of 704 Hauser St., the show's mythical address.

When O'Connor was 4, his family moved from the Bronx to Britton Avenue in East Elmhurst, where he attended PS 89. The family relocated again in 1933 to Forest Hills and he switched to PS 101.

"I saw a lot of people like Archie. Millions of them," O'Connor once said. "As a kid growing up in an all-white, all-Christian neighborhood, it was inevitable." His mother, a schoolteacher, and father, a lawyer, prided themselves on fostering an atmosphere of tolerance and a respect for knowledge in their home.

O'Connor avoided bigotry, but by his own reckoning, he did play hooky and get into trouble as a lad. "I used to go to Broadway and the Strand," he said. "I paid no attention to schoolwork. My teachers despaired of me. And then, somehow, I straightened out during my last year" at Newtown High School. In 1943, he joined the merchant marine and attended college in Montana and Ireland. In 1954, O'Connor lived at his parents' house while he taught English at the High School for the Performing Arts and pursued his acting career. He eventually settled in California.