Ron O'Neal
Born: 1937-09-01 in Utica, New York, USA
Died: 2004-01-14
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2007
2004
2002
- BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
- On the Edge as Frank Harris
2001
- The Rage Within as Captain Lang
1996
- Original Gangstas as Bubba
- E! True Hollywood Story
1995
- The Wayans Bros. as Sergeant Scully
1994
- Puppet Master 5 as Dectective
1991
- Up Against the Wall as George Wilkes
1990
- Hammer, Slammer, & Slade as Ray Samuels
1989
- Hyper Space as Samuel 'Tubbs' Tubarian
- Trained To Kill as George 'Cotton' Shorter
1988
- Mercenary Fighters as Cliff Taylor
- Hero and the Terror as Mayor
- Zombie Death House as Tom Boyle
1987
- A Different World as Mercer Gilbert
- Mathnet as Sgt. Bill Dietrich
- Beauty and the Beast as Isaac Stubbs
1986
- As Summers Die as Daniel Backus
1985
- North and South as William Still
- The Equalizer as Lt. Isadore Smalls
- Playing with Fire as Steve Phillips
- North Beach and Rawhide as Kyle Weston
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Sgt. Joe Santiago
- Crazy like a Fox
- 1st & Ten as Mr. Byron
- Red Dawn as Bella
1982
- Knight Rider as Charles Zurich
- Remington Steele as Gabe Putnam
- St. Helens as Otis Kaylor
- Bring 'Em Back Alive
1981
- Hill Street Blues as Pete
- The Greatest American Hero as Colonel
- The Sophisticated Gents as Clarence 'Clare' Henderson
1980
- The Final Countdown as Commander Dan Thurman
- Brave New World as Mustapha Mond
- Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Col. Robles
1979
- The Hitter as Otis
- When a Stranger Calls as Lt. Charlie Garber
- A Force of One as Rollins
- Freedom Road as Francis Cardoza
1977
- Brothers as Walter Nance
1975
- The Master Gunfighter as Paulo
- Hot l Baltimore
1973
- Super Fly T.N.T. as Priest
1972
- Super Fly as Priest
1971
- The Organization as Joe Peralez
1970
- Move as Peter