The Rifleman, Chuck Connors
by Pheasant Run Gallery
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The Rifleman, Chuck Connors
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Pheasant Run Gallery
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Mixed Media - Digital Art
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Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball (Chicago Cubs, 1951) and in the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1947–48). With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated ABC series The Rifleman (1958–63).
Following his military discharge in 1946, the 6' 6" Connors joined the newly formed Boston Celtics of the Basketball Association of America.[8][9] He played 53 games for Boston before leaving the team early in the 1947–48 season.
Connors is one of 13 athletes to have played in both the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball. Connors joined the Chicago Cubs in 1951, playing in 66 games as a first baseman and occasional pinch hitter.
Connors was married three times. His first wife, Elizabeth Jane Riddell Connors. They had four sons, Michael, Jeffrey, Stephen and Kevin They divorced in 1961. Connors married Kamala Devi (1963) They were divorced in 1973. Connors and Faith Quabius were married in 1977 and divorced in 1979.
Connors started smoking in 1940. He smoked three packs of cigarettes a day until he quit in the mid-1970s, though he occasionally smoked afterward. He died on November 10, 1992, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 71 of pneumonia stemming from lung cancer.
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