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 a .38 handgun hidden in his back, 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. Wikipedia
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