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Ron O'Neal

Born 1937-09-01
Died 2004-01-14
📍 Utica, New York, USA

​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.

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Filmography 51

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