Solid Snake, real name David, also known as Old Snake, and briefly known as Iroquois Pliskin, or. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Chuck Connors Wikipedia. Chuck Connors. Chuck Connors in 1. Born. Kevin Joseph Connors1. April 1. 0, 1. 92. Brooklyn, New York, U. S. Died. November 1. Los Angeles, California, U. S. Cause of death. Lung cancer and pneumonia. Resting place. San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles. Occupation. Actor, athlete. Years active. 19. Watch Salmonberries Online Salmonberries Full Movie Online' title='Watch Salmonberries Online Salmonberries Full Movie Online' />Height. Political party. Republican. SpousesElizabeth Riddell 1. Kamala Devi 1. 96. Faith Quabius 1. Children. Kevin Joseph Aloysius Chuck Connors April 1. November 1. 0, 1. American actor, writer and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 1. American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball and in the National Basketball Association. With a 4. 0 year film and television career, he is best known for his five year role as Lucas Mc. Cain in the highly rated ABC series The Rifleman 1. Early lifeeditConnors was born Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors on April 1. Brooklyn, New York, the elder child of two children born to Marcella ne Londrigan and Alban Francis Allan Connors, immigrants of Irish descent from Newfoundland and Labrador. He had one sibling, his younger sister, Gloria, two years his junior,23 According to the federal census of 1. Newfoundland, Canada. That same census also records that his father had become a citizen of the United States in 1. Brooklyn in 1. 93. His mother had also attained her U. S. citizenship in 1. Raised Roman Catholic, he served as an altar boy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn. Connors was a devoted, avid fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers despite their losing record during the 1. A gifted athlete, he earned a scholarship to the Adelphi Academy, a preparatory school in Brooklyn, where he graduated in 1. He received additional offers for athletic scholarships from more than two dozen colleges and universities. From those offers he chose to attend Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. Watch The Stray Megavideo on this page. I Bet You Season 2 Episode 3 there. There he played both basketball and baseball for the school, and it was there too where he changed his name. Since childhood Connors had disliked his first name Kevin, and he had sought another one. He tried using Lefty and Stretch before finally settling on Chuck. The name derived from his time as a player on Seton Halls baseball team. He would repeatedly yell to the pitcher from his position on first base, Chuck it to me, baby, chuck it to me The rest of his teammates and spectators at the universitys games soon caught on, and the nickname stuck. Connors, though, left Seton Hall after two years to accept a contract to play professional baseball with the New York Yankees. That opportunity lasted only one season, for he joined the United States Army following Americas entrance into World War II. During most of the war, he served as a tank warfare instructor at Fort Campbell, located on the Kentucky Tennessee border, and later at West Point in New York. Sports careereditDuring his Army service, Connors moonlighted as a professional basketball player, joining the Rochester Royals and helping to lead them to the 1. National Basketball League championship. Following his military discharge in 1. Boston Celtics of the Basketball Association of America becoming the first professional basketball player to be credited with breaking a backboard. Connors took a shot that caught the front of the rim of an improperly installed glass backboard during the Celtics warm up at Boston Arena on November 5, 1. Connors left the team for spring training with Major League Baseballs Brooklyn Dodgers. He played for numerous minor league teams before joining the Dodgers in 1. He joined the Chicago Cubs in 1. In 1. 95. 2, he was sent to the minor leagues again to play for the Cubs top farm team, the Los Angeles Angels. He was drafted into American Football by the NFLs Chicago Bears, but never suited up for the team. In 1. 96. 6, Connors played an off field role by helping to end the celebrated holdout see Reserve clause by Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax when he acted as an intermediary during negotiations between management and the players. Connors can be seen in the Associated Press photo with Drysdale, Koufax and Dodgers general manager Buzzie Bavasi announcing the pitchers new contracts. Connors was listed as 6 foot 5 inches when he played baseball, and 6 foot 6 inches when he played basketball. Acting careereditConnors realized that he would not make a career in professional sports, so he decided to pursue an acting career. Playing baseball near Hollywood proved fortunate, as he was spotted by an MGMcasting director and subsequently signed for the 1. TracyHepburn film Pat and Mike. In 1. 95. 3, he starred opposite Burt Lancaster as a rebellious Marine private in the film South Sea Woman and opposite John Wayne in Trouble Along the Way as a football coach. Television roleseditConnors had a rare comedic role in a 1. Flight to the North of Adventures of Superman. He portrayed Sylvester J. Superman, a lanky rustic yokel who shared the same name as the title character of the series. Connors was cast as Lou Brissie, a former professional baseball player wounded during World War II, in the 1. The Comeback of the religion anthology series. Crossroads. Don De. Fore portrayed the Reverend C. E. Stoney Jackson, who offered the spiritual insight to assist Brissies recovery so that he could return to the game. Grant Withers was cast as Coach Whitey Martin Crossroads regular Robert Carson also played a coach in this episode. Edd Byrnes, Rhys Williams, and Robert Fuller played former soldiers. X Brands is cast as a baseball player. In 1. 95. 7, Connors was cast in the Walt Disney film Old Yeller in the role of Burn Sanderson. Watch Lost Season 3 Episode 8 Megavideo. That same year, he co starred in The Hired Gun. Character actoreditConnors acted in feature films including The Big Country with Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston, Move Over Darling with Doris Day and James Garner, Soylent Green with Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, and Airplane II The Sequel. He also became a lovable television character actor, guest starring in dozens of shows. His guest starring debut was on an episode of NBCs Dear Phoebe. He played in two episodes, one as the bandit Sam Bass, on Dale Robertsons NBC western Tales of Wells Fargo. Other television appearances were on Hey, Jeannie, The Loretta Young Show, Schlitz Playhouse, Screen Directors Playhouse, Four Star Playhouse, Matinee Theatre, Cavalcade of America, Gunsmoke, The Gale Storm Show, The West Point Story, The Millionaire, General Electric Theater hosted by Ronald Reagan, Wagon Train, The Restless Gun with John Payne, Murder, She Wrote, Date with the Angels with Betty White, The Du. Pont Show with June Allyson, The Virginian, Night Gallery hosted by Rod Serling, Heres Lucy with Lucille Ball, and many others. The Riflemanedit. Publicity still of Connors for The Rifleman, 1. Connors beat 4. 0 other actors for the lead on The Rifleman, portraying Lucas Mc. Cain, a widowed rancher known for his skill with a customized Winchester rifle. This ABCWestern series, which aired from 1. Connors said in a 1. TV Guide that the producers of Four Star Television Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino and David Niven must have been looking at 4. At the time, the producers offered a certain amount of money to do 3. The offer turned out to be less than Connors was making doing freelance acting, so he turned it down. Wednesday, June 2. Tri City News by Tri City News. Wednesday, June 2. Tri City News   Published on Jun 2. Complete June 2. 9, 2. Tri City News as it appeared in print.