She was born Octoin O'Neal, Arkansas the daughter of Thomas Smith Compton and Lula May (Collins) Compton.
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn (1993) (TV) - Minister.What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) - George (the Ramada Inn Manager).The Thing Called Love (1993) - Singing Cop.Harts of the West (1993) (TV series) - (episode "The Right Stuff").Grace Under Fire (1993) (TV series) - Doctor ( 1 episode).Murder Between Friends (1994) (TV) - Det.Little Big League (1994) - Major League Umpire.Rebel Highway (1994) (TV series) - J.T.Nell (1994) - Don Fontana, Lovell's Attorney.Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1995) (TV series) - Gene Newtrich ( 1 episode).Coach (1995) (TV series) - Hal ( 1 episode).The Single Guy (1995) (TV series) - TY ( 1 episode).Seinfeld (1995–1997) (TV series) - Earl Haffler ( 2 episodes).Orleans (1997) (TV series) - Lawyer Curtis Manzant ( 5 episodes).Primary Colors (1998) - Sailorman Shoreson.LateLine (1998) (TV series) - Harlan ( 1 episode).Party of Five (1998) (TV series) - Les ( 1 episode).Life (1999/I) - Superintendent Abernathy.Picking Up the Pieces (2000) - Texas John.Cause of death and plans have yet to be determined. On February 18, 2019, he died at Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, South Carolina. He’s written screenplays and worked with his publisher and editor to complete a book about his life and travels. It’s a beautiful Cypress house on nine acres with a saltwater pool and a private pond. O’Neal moved into a new home in western Sumter County. He spent months working and living in some of the world’s great cities: London, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, Zurich and Mondello, Sicily. He had lived in New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis, Brazil. His work had taken him to some of the most exciting places in the Americas and Europe.
O'Neal made his living as a film and television actor, screenwriter, photographer, and also as a commercial producer and director. James Gross, and was thus, saved from a normal life. In 1977, O'Neal discovered the great Wofford Theatre Workshop under the direction of the stalwart, Dr. O'Neal's major field of study was Biology, which he read every week, forty years later. Then, after a 4 year hitch in the United States Navy, he enrolled and fell in love with campus life again" at Wofford College, where he studied with abandon, coached football under the watchful eye of Coach Buddy Sasser and Coach Ladson Cubbage. O'Neal attended Clemson University, for a year.
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O'Neal was commissioned by Jerry Seinfeld to create a series of his "slow speed" natural light portraits of the cast and crew in the last year of that show. His photographs hang in the collections of many celebrities including Morgan Freeman, Johnny Depp, Billy Bob Thornton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Elizabeth Taylor, John Travolta, Emma Thompson and Oliver Stone. O'Neal's photography was featured in exhibitions at the Michael Hoppen Gallery (London), Castle Haggenberg (Vienna) and in private galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans and South Carolina. O'Neal Compton was best known as a character actor in films and television (Life, Nixon, Nell, Primary Colors, Deep Impact, Seinfeld, Big Eden.) He was also an award-winning writer, producer, photographer and commercial director. He was born in Sumter, South Carolina, the son of educators, Belton O.
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