Ron O'Neal
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1937-09-01 – 2004-01-14
Place of birth: Utica, New York, USA
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
Zombie Death House
1988Tom Boyle
Super Fly
1972Priest
A Force of One
1979Rollins
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004Self
The Final Countdown
1980Commander Dan Thurman
Puppet Master 5
1994Dectective
Brave New World
1980Mustapha Mond
When a Stranger Calls
1979Lt. Charlie Garber
Hero and the Terror
1988Mayor
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002Self
The Master Gunfighter
1975Paulo
Trained To Kill
1989George 'Cotton' Shorter
Hyper Space
1989Samuel 'Tubbs' Tubarian
Super Fly T.N.T.
1973Priest
The Hitter
1979Otis
On the Edge
2002Frank Harris
Brothers
1977Walter Nance
Mercenary Fighters
1988Cliff Taylor
As Summers Die
1986Daniel Backus