(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 Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 91.
Connors’ death at a hospital from leukemia, which the Hollywood trade publication Variety reported he was diagnosed with a week ago, was confirmed to Reuters by the office of his talent agent, Frank Gilardi.
One of the highest-paid actors on American television at the time, Connors starred on “Mannix” for all eight seasons of its run on the CBS network, from 1967 to 1975.
