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.
49 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 49
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Hill Street Blues
1981
Knight Rider
1982
The Equalizer
1985
Remington Steele
1982
A Different World
1987
North and South
1985
The Wayans Bros.
1995
Crazy like a Fox
1984
The Greatest American Hero
1981
1st & Ten
1984
Red Dawn
1984
Bring 'Em Back Alive
1982
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980
The Final Countdown
1980
Mathnet
1987
The Sophisticated Gents
1981
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Puppet Master 5
1994
Hot l Baltimore
1975
When a Stranger Calls
1979
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
The Organization
1971
Beauty and the Beast
1987
A Force of One
1979
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Original Gangstas
1996
Hero and the Terror
1988
Brave New World
1980
St. Helens
1982
Super Fly
1972
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
1990
On the Edge
2002
Freedom Road
1979
The Master Gunfighter
1975
North Beach and Rawhide
1985
Mercenary Fighters
1988
Playing with Fire
1985
As Summers Die
1986
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004
The Rage Within
2001
Zombie Death House
1988
Move
1970
Trained To Kill
1989
Up Against the Wall
1991
Super Fly T.N.T.
1973
Brothers
1977
The Hitter
1979
Hyper Space
1989