Michael O'Neill | |
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 Michael O'Neill practices some self-defense tactics at Lackland Air Force Base in 2006 | |
| Born | May 29, 1951 Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. [1] |
| Alma mater | Auburn University (1974) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouse | Mary O'Neill |
| Children | 3 |
Michael O'Neill (born May 29, 1951) [1] is an American actor.
O'Neill was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. [1] He attended Capitol Heights Junior High and Robert E. Lee High School, graduating in 1969. In high school he played basketball and was elected class beau and a class favorite. He graduated from Auburn University in 1974. [2] [3] While at Auburn, O'Neill was inducted as a brother of Lambda Chi Alpha. After attending Auburn, he spent time under the tutelage of actor Will Geer [4] and one of Geer's daughters, the actress Ellen Geer, at Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue his career there.
With a career stretching through three decades, he usually portrays senior law enforcement or military officers. He played Special Agent Ron Butterfield, the head of President Josiah Bartlet's Secret Service detail, on The West Wing , [5] and CTU Administrative Director Richard Walsh in the first two episodes of 24 . [6] He played Sgt. Maj. Ron Cheals in CBS' action drama series The Unit . He starred in the Season 6 two-part finale of Grey's Anatomy as Gary Clark, the broken widower who holds the hospital hostage with a 9mm while pursuing the doctors responsible for unplugging his wife's life support. [7] He portrayed Nick Ford on the second season of Bates Motel, [8] and Alan Sparks on Extant. [9] His most notable film performances occur in Seabiscuit , Secondhand Lions , Transformers , Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 , Traffic , Sea of Love , A Quiet Little Marriage , Nothing but the Truth , Green Zone , J. Edgar (directed by Clint Eastwood), and Dallas Buyers Club . [10]
O'Neill splits his time between Los Angeles and Birmingham, Alabama, [1] where he lives with his wife, Mary, and three daughters, Ella, Annie, and Molly. [11]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Ghost Story | Churchill | |
| 1989 | Sea of Love | Raymond Brown | |
| 1992 | The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag | Jergens | |
| Jennifer Eight | Angelo Serato | ||
| Lorenzo's Oil | School Psychologist | ||
| 1993 | For Their Own Good | Clark Thompson | Television movie |
| Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story | Dick Britton | Television movie | |
| 1994 | Blind Justice | Spencer Heyman | Television movie |
| Beyond Betrayal | Ray Pasquerello | Television movie | |
| On Trial | Himself | Television movie | |
| 1995 | Awake to Danger | Detective Brickman | Television movie |
| Bushwhacked | Jon Jordan | ||
| 1996 | Norma Jean & Marilyn | Mr. Kimmel | Television movie |
| The Sunchaser | FBI Agent Moreland | ||
| 1998 | Standoff | Cult Leader (voice) | |
| Host | — | Television movie | |
| Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 | Mr. Lusk | ||
| 1999 | The Mod Squad | Detective Carl Greene | |
| A.T.F. | Ben Walker | Television movie, Assistant Director | |
| The Legend of Bagger Vance | O.B. Keeler | ||
| 2000 | Traffic | Lawyer Rodman | |
| 2002 | The Board Room | Walters | |
| 2003 | Dreamcatcher | Lieutenant General Matheson | |
| Seabiscuit | Mr. Pollard | ||
| Secondhand Lions | Ralph | ||
| 2004 | American Crime | Sheriff Smyth | Direct-to-video |
| Around the Bend | Cowboy | ||
| 2007 | Transformers | Tom Banachek | |
| Across the Universe | Lucy and Max's uncle at dinner | ||
| Crazy | Ralph Christianson | ||
| 2008 | A Quiet Little Marriage | Bruce | |
| 2010 | Green Zone | Colonel Bethel | |
| 2011 | J. Edgar | Senator Kenneth McKellar | |
| 2013 | Dallas Buyers Club | FDA Agent Richard Barkley | |
| 2018 | Danger One | Beckwith | |
| 2019 | Clemency | David Kendricks | |
| 2023 | Air | Joe Dean | |
| TBA | Bride Hard | Post-production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | H.E.L.P. | Cabot | Episode: "Are You There, Alpha Centauri?" |
| 1992 | L.A. Law | Mr. Moran | Episode: "My Friend Flicker" |
| 1994 | Picket Fences | Prosecutor Larry Adler | Episode: "System Down" |
| 1995 | Days of Our Lives | Father Jansen | 2 episodes |
| 1995 | One West Waikiki | — | Episode: "Manpower" |
| 1996 | The Cape | Keith Mason | Episode: "The Need to Know" |
| 1997 | The Pretender | Police Captain Harrigan | Episode: "The Better Part of Valor" |
| 1997 | Millennium | County Prosecutor Calvin Smith | Episode: "Covenant" |
| 1997 | Orleans | — | Episode: "Luther's Temptation" |
| 1997 | The Shining | Dr. Daniel Edwards | Episode: "#1.2" |
| 1998 | The X-Files | The Patrol Captain | Episode: "Drive" |
| 1999 | Roswell | Phillip Evans | Episode: "The Morning After" |
| 1999 | JAG | Commander Bradley | Episode: "Shakedown" |
| 1999–2006 | The West Wing | Secret Service Agent Ron Butterfield | 15 episodes |
| 2000 | Chicago Hope | Bill Wyzinski | Episode: "Everybody's Special at Chicago Hope" |
| 2001 | NYPD Blue | Captain Chuck Dowling | Episode: "Peeping Tommy" |
| 2001 | Diagnosis: Murder | Sheriff Buck O'Hara | Episode: "No Good Deed" |
| 2001 | 24 | Richard Walsh | 2 episodes |
| 2001–2002 | Boston Public | Dr. Bernard Colbert | 4 episodes |
| 2002 | Ally McBeal | Dr. Colbert | Episode: "All of Me" |
| 2002 | Without a Trace | Thomas Shannon | Episode: "Silent Partner" |
| 2003 | Presidio Med | — | Episode: "Breathless" |
| 2003 | Carnivàle | Sheriff Lyle Donovan | Episode: "Tipton" |
| 2004 | The Practice | Judge Robert Temple | Episode: "Police State" |
| 2004 | Judging Amy | District Attorney Dave Sherman | Episode: "My Little Runaway" |
| 2004 | Crossing Jordan | Chris Benz | Episode: "Out of Sight" |
| 2004 | LAX | Alonso Mathews | Episode: "Unscheduled Arrivals" |
| 2005 | Boston Legal | Dr. Robert McLean | Episode: "It Girls and Beyond" |
| 2005 | Cold Case | Warren Cousins In 2005 | Episode: "Revolution" |
| 2005 | ER | Colonel Ken Kilner | Episode: "Here and There" |
| 2005 | Commander in Chief | Congressman Wilcox | Episode: "First Strike, First Scandal" |
| 2005 | JAG | Major General Harold Rossing | Episode: "Fair Winds and Following Seas" |
| 2006 | Close to Home | Don Wheeler | Episode: "The Rapist Next Door" |
| 2006 | 3 lbs | James Wills | Episode: "Lost for Words" |
| 2006–2007 | The Unit | Ron Cheals | 6 episodes |
| 2006–2007 | The Nine | Pete Burton | 3 episodes |
| 2007 | Lincoln Heights | Captain | Episode: "Suspicion" |
| 2007 | K-Ville | Father Dennehy | Episode: "Critical Mass" |
| 2007 | Criminal Minds | Detective Yarbough | Episode: "About Face" |
| 2008 | Women's Murder Club | FBI Special Agent Ted Thorne | Episode: "Never Tell" |
| 2008 | The Mentalist | Sheriff Nelson | Episode: "Redwood" |
| 2008 | Prison Break | Herb Stanton | 3 episodes |
| 2008 | My Own Worst Enemy | Alexander DeSantos | Episode: "Love in All the Wrong Places" |
| 2008 | Leverage | Judge Roy | Episode: "The Bank Shot Job" |
| 2009 | FlashForward | CIA Director Keller | Episode: "Gimme Some Truth" |
| 2009 | Ghost Whisperer | Male Ghost | Episode: "Ghost Busted" |
| 2009 | Army Wives | Reverent Bankerd | 2 episodes |
| 2009 | Sons of Anarchy | Judge Franklin | Episode: "Fa Guan" |
| 2010 | Numb3rs | Boyd Keene | Episode: "Scratch" |
| 2010 | Fringe | Sheriff Velchik | Episode: "Johari Window" |
| 2010 | Miami Medical | Dr. Bruce Kaye | 2 episodes |
| 2010 | Grey's Anatomy | Gary Clark | 4 episodes |
| 2010–2012 | NCIS | Former NCIS Special Agent Riley McCallister | 3 episodes |
| 2012 | Vegas | Mayor Ted Bennett | 4 episodes |
| 2012 | CSI: Miami | Jerry Blackburn | 1 episode |
| 2013–2015 | Rectify | Senator Roland Foulkes | 14 episodes |
| 2014 | Bates Motel | Nick Ford | 8 episodes |
| 2014 | Extant | Alan Sparks | 12 episodes |
| 2015 | Battle Creek | Councilman Pritchett | Episode: "Old Wounds" |
| 2015 | Manhattan | Psychiatrist | Episode: "The Threshold" |
| 2016 | 11.22.63 | Arliss Price | Episode: "The Kill Floor" |
| 2017–2018 | S.W.A.T. | Carl Luca | Episodes: "Homecoming" & "Inheritance" |
| 2018 | Shooter | Ray Brooks | Recurring role |
| 2018 | Scandal | Lonnie Mencken | 3 episodes |
| 2018 | The Resident | Joshua Williams | Episode: "And the Nurses Get Screwed" |
| 2018 | The Romanoffs | Ron Hopkins | Episode: "Expectation" [12] |
| 2019 | Jack Ryan | Senator Mitchell Chapin | 5 episodes |
| 2020 | Council of Dads | Larry Malvern | Main role |
| 2020 | The Messiah | Cameron Collier | Episode: "Trial" |
| 2021 | This Is Us | Arlo | Episode: "In The Room" |
| 2022 | Echoes | Victor McCleary | 7 episodes |
| 2022 | Fire Country | Harlen Denbo | 1 episode |
| 2024 | Outer Range | Judge Pettigrew | 2 episodes |
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