O'Neal Compton

O'Neal Compton
O'Neal Compton in his studio in Venice California in 1996
Born Belton O'Neal Compton
(1951-02-05) February 5, 1951
Sumter, South Carolina, U.S.

O'Neal Compton (born February 5, 1951) is an American film and television actor.

He was born Belton O'Neal Compton, Jr. in Sumter, South Carolina, the son of educators.[1]

O'Neal Compton is best known as a character actor in films and television (Life, Nixon, Nell, Primary Colors, Deep Impact, Seinfeld, Big Eden.) He is also an award-winning writer, producer, photographer and commercial director.

O'Neal's photography has been 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. 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 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.

O'Neal attended Clemson University, for a year. 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 (from Sumter!). O'Neal's major field of study was BIOLOGY, which he still reads every week, forty years later. but his passion was the theatre. In 1977, O'Neal discovered the great WOFFORD THEATRE WORKSHOP under the direction of the stalwart DR. JAMES GROSS, and was thus, saved from a normal life.

For the past 33 years, O'Neal has made his living as a film and television actor, screenwriter, photographer, and also as a commercial producer and director. His work has taken him to some of the most exciting places in the Americas and Europe. He has lived in New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis, Brazil.

He’s spent months working and living in some of the world’s great cities: London, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, Zurich and Mondello, Sicily.

O’Neal has just moved into a new home in western Sumter County. It’s a beautiful Cypress house on nine acres with a saltwater pool and a private pond. He’s still writing screenplays and working with his publisher and editor to complete a book about his life and travels.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ O'Neal Compton Biography (1951-)
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