
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