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.

Super fly, however, proved controversial.

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 β€œsuperfly,” has.

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Both core and the naacp objected to the racial images projected by the film.

He died on january 14,.

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.

He was hospitalized several times and suffered from pneumonia and other complications.

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