REUTERS - Mike Connors, the former college basketball player and B-movie actor who found stardom on television playing the title role in the popular, long-running private eye series "Mannix," died on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's hard to imagine Mannix catching on quite the same way if its star had been billed as Krekor Ohanian—or even "Touch" Connors, ...

Fresno native Mike Connors, who starred in the CBS drama “Mannix” from 1967 to 1975, was not among the celebrities honored in memoriam during Sunday’s telecast of the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Mike Connors became a TV icon through Mannix after years of steady work. Born Krekor Ohanian on August 15, 1925, in Fresno, California, he first stood out in basketball. After World War II, he ...

It’s hard to imagine Mannix catching on quite the same way if its star had been billed as Krekor Ohanian—or even “Touch” Connors, one of his early professional names. Fortunately for audiences, those ...