Ron O'Neal

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: Acting

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

Died: 2004-01-14

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Move	Peter	46
2	1971	The Organization	Joe Peralez	60
3	1972	Super Fly	Priest	63
4	1973	Super Fly T.N.T.	Priest	55
5	1975	The Master Gunfighter	Paulo	45
6	1977	Brothers	Walter Nance	10
7	1979	The Hitter	Otis	37
8	1979	A Force of One	Rollins	48
9	1979	When a Stranger Calls	Lt. Charlie Garber	61
10	1979	Freedom Road	Francis Cardoza	48
11	1980	The Final Countdown	Commander Dan Thurman	66
12	1980	Brave New World	Mustapha Mond	60
13	1982	St. Helens	Otis Kaylor	62
14	1984	Red Dawn	Bella	63
15	1985	Playing with Fire	Steve Phillips	60
16	1985	North Beach and Rawhide	Kyle Weston	0
17	1986	As Summers Die	Daniel Backus	62
18	1988	Mercenary Fighters	Cliff Taylor	52
19	1988	Hero and the Terror	Mayor	54
20	1988	Zombie Death House	Tom Boyle	44
21	1989	Hyper Space	Samuel 'Tubbs' Tubarian	10
22	1989	Trained To Kill	George 'Cotton' Shorter	78
23	1990	Hammer, Slammer, & Slade	Ray Samuels	0
24	1991	Up Against the Wall	George Wilkes	100
25	1994	Puppet Master 5	Dectective	52
26	1996	Original Gangstas	Bubba	57
27	2001	The Rage Within	Captain Lang	100
28	2002	BaadAsssss Cinema	Self	60
29	2002	On the Edge	Frank Harris	27
30	2004	Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted	Self	0
31	2007	Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project	Self	68

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Hot l Baltimore		43
2	1980	Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones	Col. Robles	72
3	1981	Hill Street Blues	Pete	76
4	1981	Hill Street Blues	Stan Williams	76
5	1981	The Greatest American Hero	Colonel	73
6	1981	The Sophisticated Gents	Clarence 'Clare' Henderson	70
7	1982	Bring 'Em Back Alive		57
8	1982	Knight Rider	Charles Zurich	75
9	1982	Remington Steele	Gabe Putnam	71
10	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Sgt. Joe Santiago	75
11	1984	1st & Ten	Mr. Byron	65
12	1984	Crazy like a Fox		71
13	1985	The Equalizer	Lt. Isadore Smalls	71
14	1985	North and South	William Still	74
15	1987	Mathnet	Sgt. Bill Dietrich	70
16	1987	A Different World	Mercer Gilbert	70
17	1987	A Different World	Quentin	70
18	1987	Beauty and the Beast		75
19	1995	The Wayans Bros.	Sergeant Scully	71
20	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81