Michael O’Neill (born May 29, 1951) is an American actor. O’Neill was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. He attended Capitol Heights Junior High and Robert E. Lee High School, graduating in 1969. He graduated from Auburn University in 1974.
After attending Auburn, he spent time under the tutelage of actor Will Geer and one of Geer’s daughters, the actress Ellen Geer, at Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue his career there.
With a career stretching through three decades, he usually portrays senior law enforcement or military officers. He played Special AgentRon Butterfield, the head of President Josiah Bartlet’s Secret Service detail, on The West Wing, and CTU Administrative Director Richard Walsh in the first two episodes of 24. –Wikipedia
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Actor | Welcome to Black River | 1984-85 Season |