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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 1, 1937
Died
January 14, 2004
Place of Birth
Utica, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Ron O'Neil
Ron O'Neal
0.5 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ron O'Neal (September 1, 1937 in Utica, New York – January 14, 2004 in Los Angeles, California) was an American actor, director and screenwriter. O'Neal is most remembered for his starring role as Youngblood Priest in the blaxploitation film Super Fly and the anti-villain Cuban officer Colonel Bella in the film Red Dawn, although he also had recurring roles on the television show Living Single as Synclaire's father and as Whitley Gilbert's father on A Different World. He was also a regular on the 1982 series "Bring 'Em Back Alive" with Bruce Boxleitner in which he played the Sultan of Johore. He died in 2004 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 66 on the same day "Super Fly" was released on DVD in the US. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron O'Neal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.8
Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
0.0
Self
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004
2.3
Frank Harris
On the Edge
2002
5.9
Self
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
10.0
Captain Lang
The Rage Within
2001
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
5.6
Bubba
Original Gangstas
1996
7.2
Sergeant Scully
The Wayans Bros.
1995
5.1
Dectective
Puppet Master 5
1994
10.0
George Wilkes
Up Against the Wall
1991
Credits
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
2007
6.8
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
as Self
2004
0.0
On the Edge
as Frank Harris
2002
2.3
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
2002
5.9
The Rage Within
as Captain Lang
2001
10.0
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Original Gangstas
as Bubba
1996
5.6
The Wayans Bros.
as Sergeant Scully
1995
7.2
Puppet Master 5
as Dectective
1994
5.1
Up Against the Wall
as George Wilkes
1991
10.0
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
as Ray Samuels
1990
0.0
Trained To Kill
as George 'Cotton' Shorter
1989
7.8
Hyper Space
as Samuel 'Tubbs' Tubarian
1989
1.0
Zombie Death House
as Tom Boyle
1988
4.2
Hero and the Terror
as Mayor
1988
5.3
Mercenary Fighters
as Cliff Taylor
1988
5.2
Beauty and the Beast
as Isaac Stubbs
1987
7.4
A Different World
as Mercer Gilbert
1987
7.0
A Different World
as Quentin
1987
7.0
Mathnet
as Sgt. Bill Dietrich
1987
7.0
As Summers Die
as Daniel Backus
1986
6.2
North Beach and Rawhide
as Kyle Weston
1985
0.0
North and South
as William Still
1985
7.4
The Equalizer
as Lt. Isadore Smalls
1985
7.1
Playing with Fire
as Steve Phillips
1985
6.0
Crazy like a Fox
1984
7.1
1st & Ten
as Mr. Byron
1984
5.9
Murder, She Wrote
as Sgt. Joe Santiago
1984
7.5
Red Dawn
as Bella
1984
6.3
Remington Steele
as Gabe Putnam
1982
7.1
Knight Rider
as Charles Zurich
1982
7.5
Bring 'Em Back Alive
1982
5.9
St. Helens
as Otis Kaylor
1982
5.8
The Sophisticated Gents
as Clarence 'Clare' Henderson
1981
7.0
The Greatest American Hero
as Colonel
1981
7.2
Hill Street Blues
as Pete
1981
7.6
Hill Street Blues
as Stan Williams
1981
7.6
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
as Col. Robles
1980
7.2
Brave New World
as Mustapha Mond
1980
6.1
The Final Countdown
as Commander Dan Thurman
1980
6.6
Freedom Road
as Francis Cardoza
1979
4.8
When a Stranger Calls
as Lt. Charlie Garber
1979
6.2
A Force of One
as Rollins
1979
4.8
The Hitter
as Otis
1979
3.4
Brothers
as Walter Nance
1977
1.0
The Master Gunfighter
as Paulo
1975
4.5
Hot l Baltimore
1975
3.5
Super Fly T.N.T.
as Priest
1973
5.5
Super Fly
as Priest
1972
6.2
The Organization
as Joe Peralez
1971
6.2
Move
as Peter
1970
4.6