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Edward Leonard O'Neill is an American actor, comedian, and former football player. Over his career, he has earned four Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Born 12 April 1946 · Q16758
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After the controversial hiring of Republican congressman Bill Johnson as the university's president, O'Neill told Ideastream he was going to return his degree, saying: "I don't want it
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O'Neill starred as Hank the Octopus in the Pixar animated film Finding Dory
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O'Neill was the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from his alma mater, Youngstown State University
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Ironically located in front of a shoe store
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O'Neill appeared in an advertisement for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama as "Al the Shoesalesman"
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O'Neill was introduced to Brazilian jiu-jitsu by his friend writer/director John Milius and has trained ever since under the mentoring of Rorion Gracie
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Concluding after 11 seasons on June 9, 1997
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Was cast as NYPD detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle for the planned television series Popeye Doyle
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O'Neill appeared in a Red Lobster commercial
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While playing the role of Lennie in a stage production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut, he was seen by a casting agent from the Fox television network and was asked to audit
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Played a boxer opposite Danny Aiello in the Broadway play Knockout at the Helen Hayes Theatre
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Under rookie head coach Chuck Noll but was cut in training camp, having to compete with fellow rookie defensive linemen Joe Greene and L
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Born 1946-04-12.
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