The longtime Encino home of late “Mannix” star Mike Connors is for sale for $5.495 million.
Completed in 1948, the 6,508-square-foot, single-level ranch style sits on a flat 1-acre lot with a swimming pool and tennis court. The property has been in the same family for nearly 55 years, said listing agent Shane Marechal of Beverly & Company.
Public records show the home sold last in March 1968 for $141,000.
“A year ago this would’ve been something the builders would have jumped all over, but the family really wants someone who will remodel it and not tear it down,” Marechal said, adding that most interested buyers have expressed their desire to modernize the existing home.
Portrayed as a diamond in the rough, the home has four bedrooms, six bathrooms and an open-concept floorplan with character-defining detail. There are wood-beamed ceilings, hexagonal saltillo tile floors and built-ins, including bookshelves in the office.
A double-sided fireplace divides the formal living and dining rooms.
The house has several fireplaces, including one in the game room/bar, the den and the sitting room of the primary suite, which also boasts two bathrooms and closets.
A secondary primary suite features a sauna.
Elsewhere, the galley kitchen opens onto a breakfast area.
Connors, who died in 2017 at 91, was born Krekor Ohanian in 1925 to Armenian parents. Among his many roles, he played a herder in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic “The Ten Commandments” that starred Charlton Heston. But he was best known for starring as detective Joe Mannix on the long-running “Mannix.”
The Desilu-produced series ran from 1967 to 1975 on CBS and, in 1970, earned Connors a Golden Globe Award.
Connors worked in Hollywood until 2007, when he appeared in “Two and a Half Men.”
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