Ron O'Neal
Known For
Acting
Born
1937-09-01 in 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.
Most Known For
Murder, She Wrote
as Sgt. Joe Santiago
Knight Rider
as Charles Zurich
Hill Street Blues
as Pete
Hill Street Blues
as Stan Williams
The Equalizer
as Lt. Isadore Smalls
North and South
as William Still
A Different World
as Mercer Gilbert
A Different World
as Quentin
Remington Steele
as Gabe Putnam
The Greatest American Hero
as Colonel
Crazy like a Fox
The Wayans Bros.
as Sergeant Scully
1st & Ten
as Mr. Byron
Red Dawn
as Bella
The Organization
as Joe Peralez
Hyper Space
as Samuel 'Tubbs' Tubarian
The Final Countdown
as Commander Dan Thurman
Mathnet
as Sgt. Bill Dietrich
Bring 'Em Back Alive
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
as Col. Robles