Webron 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. Webron 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 ,. Webron 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. Webtrue hollywood story (2000) (tv) very honest documentary about ron o'neal's rise and the impact on his career after making superfly. I found his perspectives about the black. Webron o’neal’s health deteriorated in the last months of his life, as the cancer took its toll on his body. He was hospitalized several times and suffered from pneumonia.
