Ed O'Neill

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AKA: Edward O'Neill
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 04/12/1946
Birthplace: Youngstown, Ohio, United States

biography

He became the grumbling, life-worn antithesis to the sanitized TV dads of the 1980s; his dysfunctional, backbiting, ribald, lower-middle-class on-air family the flagship of a fledgling network called Fox. Playing Al Bundy on “Married…with Children” (Fox, 1987-1997) for 11 seasons, Ed O’Neill made himself perhaps the least likely and least glamorous star in television. Within a few years, “Married…” transformed O’Neill from a New York theater actor with little comedic background into a comic icon of the bleak side of the American Dream, or an avatar of a cultural apocalypse subverting the Continued

Credits

(TV Show)
2009-2009
Jay Pritchett
2009
Jay Pritchett
2009
Jay Pritchett
2009
Jay Pritchett
2009
Jay Pritchett
2009
Jay Pritchett
2009
+(1 More)
(TV Show)
2007-2007
Bill
2007
+(5 More)
(TV Show)
2005-2005
Matt
2005
(TV Show)
2003-2004
Joe Friday
2004
Joe Friday
2004
Joe Friday
2004
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
Joe Friday
2003
+(14 More)
Burch
2004
Dick
2000
Detective Paulie Sellitto
1999
Bill Dellenger
1997
Ed
1994
(TV Show)
1987-1987
Al Bundy
1987
George Denver
Brannigan
Kevin O'Shea
Dutch

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Began acting in high school plays
1969 
Signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an outside linebacker; was released before the start of the regular season
 
Starred as Randall P. McMurphy in a local production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
1970 
Taught social studies at Youngstown's Ursuline High School
 
Returned to Youngstown State University to take acting classes
Continued

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