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==Early life== Carroll O'Connor, the eldest of three sons, was born on August{{nbsp}}2, 1924, in [[Manhattan]],<ref name="YouTube">{{YouTube|SXNA4nLoLVI|Carroll O'Connor interview with the Archive of American Television}}</ref> New York City, to Edward Joseph O'Connor,<ref name="FilmRef"/> a lawyer, and his wife, Elise Patricia O'Connor (née O'Connor), a teacher. Both of his brothers became doctors: Hugh, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1961, and Robert, a psychiatrist in New York City.<ref name="YouTube"/> O'Connor spent much of his youth in [[Elmhurst, Queens|Elmhurst]] and [[Forest Hills, Queens]].<ref>Severo, Richard. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E1DF1430F931A15755C0A9679C8B63 "Carroll O'Connor, Embodiment of Social Tumult as Archie Bunker, Dies at 76"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 22, 2001. Accessed November 18, 2007. "The O'Connors lived well, at first in the Bronx, later in a larger apartment in Elmhurst, Queens, and finally in a nice single-family home in Forest Hills, Queens, then an enclave for people of means."</ref> O'Connor graduated from [[Newtown High School (Queens)|Newtown High School]] in Elmhurst. In 1941, he enrolled at [[Wake Forest University]] in North Carolina but dropped out when the United States entered [[World War II]]. During the war, he was rejected by the [[United States Navy]] and enrolled in the [[United States Merchant Marine Academy]] for a short time. After leaving that institution, he became a merchant seaman and served in the [[United States Merchant Marine]] during the war.<ref name="oconnor">{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/53347/Carroll-O-Connor/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516060607/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/53347/Carroll-O-Connor/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-05-16 |title=Carroll O'Connor |access-date=2009-03-19 |first=Kathryn |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2013 |last=Shattuck}}</ref> After the war, O'Connor attended the [[University of Montana]], where he worked at the ''[[Montana Kaimin]]'' student newspaper as an editor; in 1949 he resigned his editing position in protest to the pressure from the campus administration that led to [[Montana Kaimin#1940s|the confiscation and destruction of an issue of the paper]], which carried a cartoon depicting the [[Montana Board of Education]] as rats gnawing at a bag of university funds. At the University of Montana, he also joined the [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]] fraternity.<ref name=spe>{{cite web|url=http://www.sigep.org/about/alumni_entertainment.asp |title=Sigma Phi Epsilon – Prominent Alumni |publisher=Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity |access-date=March 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228184118/http://sigep.org/about/alumni_entertainment.asp |archive-date=February 28, 2009}}</ref> O'Connor did not take any drama courses as an undergraduate at the University of Montana, but he did act in student theater productions. He met Nancy Fields (born 1929), who later became his wife, when she was working as a makeup artist and lighting technician in a student-produced production of ''[[Our Town]]''. He later left that university to help his younger brother Hugh get into [[medical school]] in Ireland, where Carroll completed his undergraduate studies at [[University College Dublin]]. There he studied Irish history and English literature, graduated in 1952, and began his acting career.<ref name="YouTube"/> After O'Connor's fiancée, Nancy Fields, graduated from the University of Montana in 1951 with degrees in drama and English, she sailed to Ireland to study at [[Trinity College Dublin]] and met Carroll, who was visiting his brother, Hugh.<ref name="UMT">{{cite web |title=All in the UM Family – O'Connors Donate $1 Million to Center |publisher=University of Montana |url=http://www.umt.edu/urelations/MainHall/0999/family.htm |access-date=August 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702005136/http://www.umt.edu/urelations/MainHall/0999/family.htm |archive-date=July 2, 2011 }}</ref> The couple married in Dublin on July{{nbsp}}28, 1951.<ref name="FilmRef">{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/30/Carroll-O-Connor.html |title=Carroll O'Connor Biography (1924–2001) |publisher=Film Reference |access-date=September 3, 2011}}</ref> In 1956, O'Connor returned to the University of Montana to earn a master's degree in speech.<ref name="UMT"/>
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