Ron O'Neal
Also Known As: Ron O'Neil
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Utica, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 01, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 14, 2004
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Zombie Death House
Overview: A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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Super Fly
Overview: Priest, a suave top-rung New York City drug dealer, decides that he wants to get out of his dangerous trade. Working with his reluctant friend, Eddie, Priest devises a scheme that will allow him to make a big deal and then retire. When a desperate street dealer informs the police of Priest's activities, Priest is forced into an uncomfortable arrangement with corrupt narcotics officers. Setting his plan in motion, he aims to both leave the business and stick it to the man.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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A Force of One
Overview: Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-01
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Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Overview: Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s. Featuring interviews with key actors and filmmakers, the documentary explores the origins of blaxploitation, and the controversial history of Hollywood's most misunderstood genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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The Final Countdown
Overview: During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Genres: War Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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Puppet Master 5
Overview: Sutekh, the dark pharaoh from another dimension, sends his own puppet, Totem, to continue his quest to kill Rick and steal the magic which animates the puppets.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-21
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Brave New World
Overview: A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-07
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When a Stranger Calls
Overview: A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Hero and the Terror
Overview: Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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BaadAsssss Cinema
Overview: With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.
Genres: Action Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-14
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The Master Gunfighter
Overview: Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and swords and will not allow him to push around the peace-loving Indians or fellow settlers of the West.
Genres: Drama Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-03
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Trained To Kill
Overview: From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-07
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Hyper Space
Overview: In the 21st Century, the "Corporation" sends a spaceship to dispose of earth's severe nuclear waste to a distant region in the cosmos. The astronauts awaken from their "cryo-sleep" to truly cry over finding themselves marooned... their fuel is not sufficient to bring them back home. The shuttle craft on board that can accommodate no more than two passengers presents the only hope, and soon a "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" type of distrust and betrayal sets in, until one by one, only one sole survivor remains.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-01
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Super Fly T.N.T.
Overview: A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-15
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The Hitter
Overview: An ex-professional boxer gets a new start when teaming up with an ageing hoodlum and an ex-call girl.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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On the Edge
Overview: Dakota Smith is an ex-cop and former private eye with a proclivity for community service. When a young basketball player entangles himself with drug dealers, he turns to Dak for help. Eventually goons are sent to kill the hoopster, but they hit the family of Rex Stevens by mistake. Frustrated by the incompetent and crooked police, the trio of Smith, Stevens, and their friend Frank Harris then battle the drug dealers for control of the streets. Also the heroes must tangle with Felix, a stealthy and ruthless hitman.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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Brothers
Overview: Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was one of those killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-31
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Mercenary Fighters
Overview: The president of an African country wants to boost his economy with a new dam. He ignores the protests of the tribes in the flooded region, so they declare rebellion. To avoid bad publicity, the president doesn't use his army, but hires four international mercenaries, who shall find tribes leader Kuruba and smother the protest. However after learning about the tribes motivation, the Vietnam veterans T.J. and Cliff realize how they're being used and reconsider.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-01
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As Summers Die
Overview: Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, after she refuses to sell her valuable land.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-18
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Original Gangstas
Overview: A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created the Rebels, returns to Gary to be with his father and, with a little help from his friends, to destroy the Rebels his way.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Overview: The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's contemporaries, (Steve Lawrence, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, etc.), established comedians (Billy Crystal, Rosanna Barr, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, etc.) and young comedians (Jeff Atoll, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, etc.).
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-13
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North Beach and Rawhide
Overview: "Boys Town" drama about a man named Rawhide MacGregor, a one-time ex-convict who runs a cattle ranch as a correctional facility for urban juvenile delinquents where he tries through a variety of means and choirs to redeem them from their trouble-making ways.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-12
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Playing with Fire
Overview: Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-13
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Red Dawn
Overview: It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Genres: Action Thriller War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Freedom Road
Overview: Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-29
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Move
Overview: A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-31
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The Rage Within
Overview: Police Officer Billy Rains (Mike Norris) and his partner Darren Steel (David Rael) are finishing their last shift together, after which Rains intends to leave for retirement in Mexico. Everything changes, however, when the pair respond to a simple call that turns deadly, leading them on a high-speed chase throughout the city and killing Rains. Paired with a new partner, Smith (Fred Williamson), Steel goes on a quest to bring justice to his murdered partner and the city.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-02
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St. Helens
Overview: Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
Overview: After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-15
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The Organization
Overview: After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
Genres: Drama Action Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-20
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Up Against the Wall
Overview: A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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