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Definitely add Carroll O'Connor, who played the father in "All in the Family". He was obviously a typical left-wing politically, but exaggerated the beliefs and mannerisms of someone opposed to that belief system, for the purpose of ridicule. (I never recognized 'Archie Bunker' as a conservative, however.)

Since I see few movies anyway, I would be glad to see a list of people to avoid, so that my hard-earned moneyt doesn't contribute to the personal wealth of some left-wingers.

"Definitely add Carroll O'Connor, who played the father in "All in the Family". He was obviously a typical left-wing politically, but exaggerated the beliefs and mannerisms of someone opposed to that belief system, for the purpose of ridicule."

My late father in law, God rest his soul, was very puzzled by "All In The Family". Not because of anything that Archie Bunker did or said, mind you. What he didn't understand was why people thought that the things Archie said were humorous, instead of being received as wisdom. And I certainly heard him say, in all seriousness, words that "All In The Family"'s script writers could have put right in Archie's mouth without breaking stride.

I'm sure most people thought that Archie was an exaggerated caricature, but I'm here to tell you that there really are Archie Bunkers out there.

Definitely add Carroll O'Connor,

There was an incredible change in Carroll O'Connor as he got older. Read an interview with him when All in the Family was big, and he was talking about how the drug laws were stupid, and how he would keep marijuana around the house if it were legal, just as he kept liquor around the house for his friends who drank. But as All in the Family progressed, Archie Bunker, while still uneducated, was brought out as a guy who dropped out of high school to support his family, and worked a job he hated at a loading dock so his kids could have a better life. I think these changes in the tone of the show represented a change in O'Connor. Later, when he was starring in "In the Heat of the Night", he watched Harold Rollins Jr. totally destroy himself with drugs and finally die of AIDS, and then his son killed himself with drugs. O'Connor became quite the drug crusader. In a later interview, he stated, I'm the star of the show, anything I want I'm supposed to get, but I can't even keep drugs off the set. The producers tell me the unions will go nuts if we start bugging the crews. Crew members supposedly were the ones who sneaked drugs to his son when he was on his downward spiral. Carroll O'Connor became Archie Bunker, but the real guy, who's out there all over the country, working his butt off, hoping for a better life for his kids, and wondering whatever happened to the values of this country.