Actor / Director Profile

Best known to television viewers as Elliott Carson, in the long-running TV series, "Peyton Place" (1964), Tim O'Connor began his acting career with the Goodman Memorial Theatre in Chicago just after World War II. Moving to New York in the early 1950's, he became one of television's busiest actors during the medium's dramatic coming-of-age. He appeared frequently on the "The United States Steel Hour" (1953) and became a mainstay of the "Family Classics" series, starring in such productions as "The Three Musketeers" and "A Tale of Two Cities". Until 1964, when "Peyton Place" (1964) became a runaway hit, O'Connor lived on an island in the center of Glenwild Lake near Bloomingdale, New Jersey. He soon found that commuting between the East Coast and Los Angeles was too wearing, and moved to California. O'Connor settled in Santa Monica, a few short blocks from the Pacific, and established himself as one of filmdom's most versatile performers.