He was hospitalized several times and suffered from.

Webron o'neal, the actor who briefly became an international star in the film superfly after producers saw his performance in the play no place to be somebody , died of cancer in los angeles.

Webron o'neal, whose role as the cocaine dealer youngblood priest in the 1972 film ''superfly'' epitomized the era's blaxploitation genre, died here on wednesday.

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Webas youngblood priest, a magnetic cocaine dealer looking to make one last score before getting out of the drug life, o’neal made a strong impression.

Webron o’neal’s health deteriorated in the last months of his life, as the cancer took its toll on his body.

Webron o’neal, a stage and film actor who rode the wave of blaxploitation movies in the early 1970s starring as the sartorially resplendent harlem drug dealer in the 1972 hit.

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