Sunday, November 24, 2013

Mike Connors - Sometimes stage names do work better

Mike Connors, the star of the Mannix detective series on television, was born Krekor Ohanian. He was of Armenian descent. He attended UCLA on a basketball scholarship and played for legendary coach John Wooden.


 John and Nell Wooden are greeted at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in 1973 by one of the coach's former UCLA players, Mike Connors, who at the time starred in the TV detective series "Mannix."
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Connors (left) with Wooden and his wife

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