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Michael O'Neill Occupation Film, television actor Michael O'Neill is an American actor.
With a career stretching through three decades, he usually portrays senior law enforcement or military officers.[citation needed] He is perhaps best known[citation needed] 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 CBS' long-running action drama series The Unit. He starred in the Season 6 two-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, actress Ellen Geer, at Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue his career there.
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Filmography
Film
Year Film 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 Agent Moreland 1998 Standoff Cult Leader (voice) Host Television movie Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 Mr. Lusk 1999 The Mod Squad Det. 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 Gen. Matheson Seabiscuit Mr. Pollard Secondhand Lions Ralph 2004 American Crime Sheriff Smyth Direct-to-video Around the Bend Cowboy 2007 Transformers Tom Banacheck Crazy Ralph Christianson 2008 A Quiet Little Marriage Bruce 2010 Green Zone Colonel Bethel Television
Year Title Role Episode 1990 H.E.L.P. Cabot Are You There, Alpha Centauri? 1992 L.A. Law My Friend Flicker 1994 Picket Fences Prosecutor Larry Adler System Down 1995 Days of our Lives Father Jansen 2 episodes One West Waikiki Manpower 1996 The Cape Keith Mason The Need to Know 1997 The Pretender Captain Harrigan The Better Part of Valor Millenium County Prosecutor Calvin Smith Covenant Orleans Luther's Temptation The Shining (TV mini-series) Dr. Daniel Edwards 1 episode 1998 The X-Files The Patrol Captain Drive 1999 Roswell Phillip Evans The Morning After JAG Cmdr. Bradley Shakedown 1999–2006 The West Wing Secret Service Agent Ron Butterfield 16 episodes 2000 Chicago Hope Bill Wyzinski Everybody's Special at Chicago Hope 2001 NYPD Blue Capt. Chuck Dowling Peeping Tommy Diagnosis: Murder Sheriff Buck O'Hara No Good Deed 24 Richard Walsh 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m., 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m.]] 2001–2002 Boston Public Dr. Bernard Colbert Chapter Twenty-Four, Chapter Twenty-Seven, Chapter Twenty-Eight, Chapter Thirty-One 2002 Ally McBeal Dr. Colbert All of Me Without a Trace Thomas Shannon Silent Partner 2003 Presidio Med Breathless Carnivàle Sheiff Lyle Donovan Tipton 2004 The Practice Judge Robert Temple Police State Judging Amy D.A. Dave Sherman My Little Runaway Crossing Jordan Chris Benz Out of Sight LAX Alonso Mathews Unscheduled Arrivals 2005 Boston Legal Dr. Robert McLean It Girls and Beyond Cold Case Warren Cousins 2005 Revolution ER Col. Ken Kilner Here and There Commander in Chief Congressman Wilcox First Strike, First Scandal JAG Maj. Gen. Harold Rossing Fair Winds and Following Seas 2006 Close to Home Don Wheeler The Rapist Next Door 3 lbs James Wills Lost for Words 2006–2007 The Unit Ron Cheals First Responders, Dedication, SERE, Exposure, Off the Meter, Paradise Lost The Nine Pete Burton Pilot, Heroes Welcome, The Inside Man 2007 Lincoln Heights Captain Suspicion K-Ville Father Dennehy Critical Mass Criminal Minds Det. Yarbough About Face 2008 Women's Murder Club FBI Agent Ted Thorne Never Tell The Mentalist Sheriff Nelson Redwood Prison Break Herb Stanton Shut Down, Selfless My Own Worst Enemy Alexander DeSantos Love in All the Wrong Places Leverage Judge Roy The Bank Shot Job 2009 FlashForward CIA Director Mr. Keller Gimme Some Truth Ghost Whisperer Male Ghost Ghost Busted Army Wives Reverent Bankerd Family Readiness, Disengagement Sons of Anarchy Fa Guan 2010 Numb3rs Boyd Keene Scratch Fringe Sheriff Velchik Johari Window Miami Medical Dr. Bruce Kaye 88 Seconds Grey's Anatomy Gary Clark Sympathy for Parents, How Insensitive, Sanctuary, Death and All His friends NCIS Former NCIS Special Agent Riley McCallister Enemies Foreign, Enemies Domestic References
External links
- Michael O'Neill at the Internet Movie Database
- "The Life of Hollywood", Interview with Michael O'Neill, Mary McNamara, LA Times, 11-28-2004
Categories:- Living people
- American film actors
- American television actors
- Auburn University alumni
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