Other Connally film appearances were in '' Rush '' starring Jason Patric as a narcotics detective , and in '' Heaven and Hell : North & South : Book Three '' . In 1991 , he played Judge Bolen in the television production '' Wild Texas Wind '' . He was an extra in the 1979 television film '' The Girls in the Office '' . On August 12 , 1956 , he appeared as himself as a contestant on John Daly 's '' What 's My Line ? '' CBS quiz program in which a celebrity panel attempts to guess the occupation of the guest . Jimmy Carter of Georgia , before he was nationally known also appeared on '' What 's My Line ? '' Connally served as the Wilson County judge from 1955 to 1958 and was involved in various Democratic activities . He was a delegate to the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago , which nominated the Adlai E. Stevenson-Estes Kefauver ticket . In 1968 , he managed the unsuccessful candidacy of Eugene Locke , who resigned as deputy ambassador to the former South Vietnam to seek to succeed Connally 's brother as governor . John Connally professed neutrality in the primary because the lieutenant governor , Preston Smith , and the former appointed Texas secretary of state , John Luke Hill , an enthusiastic Connally supporter , were also in the running . The nomination and the general election went to Smith , who had made a fortune as a theater owner from Lubbock
1956 Democratic National Convention
1956 Democratic National Convention
Merrill Connally