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Mike Connors (born August 15, 1925) is an American actor of Armenian descent.

He is best known for playing Joe Mannix in the long-running detective television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding two 45-caliber handguns, in the television series Tightrope.

Born Kreker Ohanian in Fresno, California, he graduated from UCLA where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. An avid basketball player who was nicknamed "Touch" by his teammates, he is credited in his early films, such as Island in the Sky (1953) and Swamp Women, a.k.a. Swamp Diamonds, as Touch Connors.

In 1956, still billed as Touch Connors, he played an Amalekite herder in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston.

His three TV series were CBS' Tightrope (September 8, 1959–September 13, 1960), CBS' Mannix (September 16, 1967–August 27, 1975) and ABC's Today's F.B.I. (October 25, 1981–August 14, 1982).

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