​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.

Filmography

• 2002On the Edge — Frank Harris
• 2001The Rage Within — Captain Lang
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996Original Gangstas — Bubba
• The Wayans Bros. — Sergeant Scully
• 1994Puppet Master 5 — Dectective
• 1991Up Against the Wall — George Wilkes, Director
• 1990Hammer, Slammer, & Slade — Ray Samuels
• 1989Hyper Space — Samuel 'Tubbs' Tubarian
• 1989Trained To Kill — George 'Cotton' Shorter
• 1988Hero and the Terror — Mayor
• 1988Mercenary Fighters — Cliff Taylor
• 1988Zombie Death House — Tom Boyle
• A Different World — Mercer Gilbert, Quentin
• Beauty and the Beast — Isaac Stubbs
• Mathnet — Sgt. Bill Dietrich
• 1986As Summers Die — Daniel Backus
• 1985North Beach and Rawhide — Kyle Weston
• North and South — William Still
• 1985Playing with Fire — Steve Phillips
• The Equalizer — Lt. Isadore Smalls
• 1st & Ten — Mr. Byron
• Crazy like a Fox
• Murder, She Wrote — Sgt. Joe Santiago
• 1984Red Dawn — Bella
• Bring 'Em Back Alive
• Knight Rider — Charles Zurich
• Remington Steele — Gabe Putnam
• 1982St. Helens — Otis Kaylor
• Hill Street Blues — Pete, Stan Williams
• The Greatest American Hero — Colonel
• The Sophisticated Gents — Clarence 'Clare' Henderson
• 1980Brave New World — Mustapha Mond
• Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones — Col. Robles
• 1980The Final Countdown — Commander Dan Thurman
• 1979A Force of One — Rollins
• 1979Freedom Road — Francis Cardoza
• 1979The Hitter — Otis
• 1979When a Stranger Calls — Lt. Charlie Garber
• 1977Brothers — Walter Nance
• Hot l Baltimore
• 1975The Master Gunfighter — Paulo
• 1973Super Fly T.N.T. — Priest, Story, Director
• 1972Super Fly — Priest
• 1971The Organization — Joe Peralez
• 1970Move — Peter

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2007Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project — Self
• 2004Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted — Self
• 2002BaadAsssss Cinema — Self