Ron O'Neal

Born: 1937-09-01, Utica, New York, USA

Died: 2004-01-14

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

• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Knight Rider (1982)
• Remington Steele (1982)
• Hill Street Blues (1981)
• A Different World (1987)
• The Wayans Bros. (1995)
• North and South (1985)
• Crazy like a Fox (1984)
• The Final Countdown (1980)
• The Organization (1971)
• E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
• Hot l Baltimore (1975)
• Super Fly (1972)
• The Hitter (1979)
• Puppet Master 5 (1994)
• A Force of One (1979)
• Hero and the Terror (1988)
• Hyper Space (1989)
• Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (1990)
• Zombie Death House (1988)
• Original Gangstas (1996)
• St. Helens (1982)
• Mercenary Fighters (1988)
• Trained To Kill (1989)
• The Rage Within (2001)
• Super Fly T.N.T. (1973)
• Super Fly T.N.T. (1973)
• Freedom Road (1979)
• As Summers Die (1986)
• Up Against the Wall (1991)