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'Mannix' star Mike Connors dies at 91

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Connors, who played a hard-hitting private eye on the long-running TV series "Mannix," has died. He was 91.

<p>NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA - OCTOBER 12: Actor Mike Connors attends ATAS Celebrates "60 Years: A Retrospective Of Television And The Academy" at the Academy's Leonard H. Goldenson Theater on October 12, 2006 in North Hollywood, California. </p>

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Connors, who played a hard-hitting private eye on the long-running TV series "Mannix," has died. He was 91.

His son-in-law, Mike Condon, says the actor died Thursday afternoon at a Los Angeles hospital from recently-diagnosed leukemia.

"Mannix" debuted on CBS in 1967 and ran for eight years.

Viewers were intrigued by the smartly dressed, well-spoken Los Angeles detective who could still mix it up with thugs. Episodes normally climaxed with a brawl.

Connors once said that until "Mannix," TV private investigators were hard-nosed and cynical, while Mannix "got emotionally involved" in his cases.

Connors also starred in the short-lived TV shows "Tightrope" and "Today's FBI." His movie roles included "Sudden Fear" with Joan Crawford, "Island in the Sky," ''The Ten Commandments," and a remake of "Stagecoach."

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