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Ron O'Neal. Ron O'Neal (September 1, 1937 – January 14, 2004) was an American actor, director and screenwriter, who rose to fame in his role as Youngblood Priest, a New York City cocaine dealer, in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972) and its sequel Super Fly T.N.T. (1973). O'Neal was also a director and writer for the sequel, and for the ...
Ron O'Neal. Actor: Red Dawn. Tall, lean, handsome veteran stage and classically trained actor, best known for his iconic role as Youngblood Priest - the long haired, stylishly dressed cocaine dealer who wants to make one last big score so he can retire from the cocaine business, in the seminal 1972 crime drama Super Fly.
- January 1, 1
- Utica, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Ron O'Neal. Actor: Red Dawn. Tall, lean, handsome veteran stage and classically trained actor, best known for his iconic role as Youngblood Priest - the long haired, stylishly dressed cocaine dealer who wants to make one last big score so he can retire from the cocaine business, in the seminal 1972 crime drama Super Fly. Son of a jazz musician who worked as a factory worker to support his ...
- September 1, 1937
- January 14, 2004
Jan 27, 2021 · He was born to Ernest and Eunice O’Neal on September 1, 1937 in Utica, New York, but grew up in an economically depressed neighborhood in Cleveland. Ernest had been a jazz musician in the 1920s but gave up music to work in a factory to support his family. He died when Ron was 16 years old. Eunice then found work in a hospital.
Ron O'Neal, a stage and film actor who rode the wave of blaxploitation movies in the early 1970s starring as the sartorially resplendent Harlem drug dealer in the 1972 hit "Superfly," has died.
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Jan 17, 2004 · Jan. 17, 2004. Ron O'Neal, whose role as the cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest in the 1972 film ''Superfly'' epitomized the era's blaxploitation genre, died here on Wednesday. He was 66. The cause ...
Ron O'Neal, the actor who briefly became an international star in the film "Superfly" after producers saw his performance in the play No Place to Be Somebody , died of cancer in Los Angeles on Jan ...
