Michael O'Neill
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Michael O'Neill (born May 29, 1951) is an American actor. With a career stretching through three decades, he usually portrays senior law enforcement or military officers. He is perhaps best known for his role as Special agent Ron Butterfield, the head of President Josiah Bartlet's Secret Service detail, on The West Wing. He played CTU Administrative Director Richard Walsh in the first two episodes of 24. He played Sgt. Maj. Ron Cheals in the CBS action-drama series The Unit. He starred in the Season Six 2 part Finale of Grey's Anatomy as the broken widower who holds the hospital hostage with a 9mm while pursuing the doctors responsible for unplugging his wife. 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, and Green Zone. O'Neill graduated from Auburn University in 1974. After attending Auburn he spent time under the tutelage of actor Will Geer and his daughter, Ellen, at Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue his career there.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.682 |
Birthday | 1947-05-29 |
Place of Birth | Montgomery, Alabama, USA |
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2007
Transformers
6.803/11023
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobot...
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Transformers
2003
Dreamcatcher
5.617/1693
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're o...
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Dreamcatcher
2010
Green Zone
6.469/2118
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of...
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Green Zone
2004
Around the Bend
5.92/50
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties a...
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Around the Bend
2008
A Quiet Little Marriage
5/5
A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all...
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A Quiet Little Marriage
1998
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
6.8/10
Four guys, best friends, have grown up together in DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81, a tiny town in West Texas. Years ago, they made a solemn vow to leave town t...
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Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
2013
Dallas Buyers Club
7.93/8339
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thi...
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Dallas Buyers Club
1993
For Their Own Good
7.2/4
A factory worker gets an ultimatum from her employer that she agree to be sterilized or be fired.
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For Their Own Good
1989
An Unremarkable Life
0/0
The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic feelings for a local mechanic.
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An Unremarkable Life
2014
The Grim Sleeper
4.7/15
Journalist Christine Pelisek helps law enforcement investigate the alleged serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.
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The Grim Sleeper
1998
Virtual Obsession
4.8/5
If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a...
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Virtual Obsession
2000
The Legend of Bagger Vance
6.548/860
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tourn...
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000
Traffic
7.061/2095
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...
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Traffic
1999
ATF
4.7/3
In the wake of the tragic events at Waco, Texas where an armed conflict with armed militiamen broke out, agents of the federal government's Alcohol, T...
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ATF
2008
Crazy
5.5/16
Crazy is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950s. Blessed with incomparable, natural talent, Hank Garland quick...
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Crazy
1993
Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story
6.3/3
When a woman dies in a supposed accident, her parents suspect their son-in-law of foul play. When the police begin to agree, the murder suspect vanish...
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Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story
2003
Secondhand Lions
7.16/740
The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the b...
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Secondhand Lions
2018
Indivisible
6.9/73
Upon returning from serving in the U.S. Army, Chaplain Darren Turner faces a crisis that shatters his Family and Faith in God but through the help of...
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Indivisible
1996
The Sunchaser
6.1/85
A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.
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The Sunchaser
1992
Jennifer Eight
6.026/346
John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected b...
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Jennifer Eight
2018
Danger One
6/37
While transporting a dying man to the hospital, two paramedics find a million dollars in cash sewn into his clothing. When the man dies, they decide t...
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Danger One
1981
Ghost Story
6.021/142
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies...
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Ghost Story
1989
Sea of Love
6.6/599
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with hi...
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Sea of Love
2019
Clemency
6.349/109
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine...
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Clemency
1992
Lorenzo's Oil
7.082/515
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the...
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Lorenzo's Oil
1994
Beyond Betrayal
4.5/2
Joanne is married to Bradley, a cop who abuses her. One day she decides to run away and meets Sam, who has marital difficulties of his own. Bradley ev...
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Beyond Betrayal
2020
The Stand at Paxton County
5.8/20
A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.
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The Stand at Paxton County
2011
J. Edgar
6.228/2379
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind close...
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J. Edgar
2004
American Crime
3.9/15
A news team hunts for a serial killer who stalks victims via videotape and then records the ghastly deed.
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American Crime
2003
Seabiscuit
7.041/801
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation...
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Seabiscuit
1999
The Mod Squad
4.329/120
Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD.
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The Mod Squad
2021
Cold Call
0/0
Christian, a brilliant businessman, deal-maker, and self-proclaimed master-of-the-universe, receives a phone call and an offer for which he can negoti...
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Cold Call
1995
Awake to Danger
4/2
Recently awakened from a coma, a traumatized adolescent girl fights to remember the circumstances surrounding her mother's brutal death. But as the de...
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Awake to Danger
1992
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
5.1/28
A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession.
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1995
Bushwhacked
5.251/113
A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals and police, he poses as a Scout leader and...
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Bushwhacked
2023
Air
7.354/1809
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the wo...
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1994
Blind Justice
5.025/20
Canaan, a mysterious gunfighter left nearly blind from Civil War combat, roams through Mexico with a baby he has sworn to protect. On his way to a tow...
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Blind Justice
War of the Worlds
0/0
Based on the classic alien invasion novel by H.G. Wells.
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War of the Worlds
2024
Bride Hard
0/0
A renowned secret agent has been tasked with one of her hardest missions yet – being a maid of honor for her childhood best friend.
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Bride Hard
2008
Nothing But the Truth
6.9/468
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her sourc...
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