Cyril O'Reilly

For the character from the television series Oz, see Cyril O'Reily.

Cyril J. O'Reilly (born June 8, 1958) is an American film and television actor, writer and producer.

Cyril O'Reilly
Born	Cyril J. O'Reilly (1958-06-09) June 9, 1958 (age 64) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Joe Ready
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1980–2007

Life and career

O'Reilly was born in Los Angeles, California.^[1] He has worked in Hollywood for nearly three decades, and is known for playing a reluctant vampire in Dance of the Damned, and for his role as Tim Cavanaugh in the teen sex comedies Porky's and Porky's II: The Next Day.

He co-starred in the 1981 television movie Splendor in the Grass with Melissa Gilbert. In 2007, twenty-six years later, the two re-united in the television movie Sacrifices of the Heart. His other film work has included roles in Airplane!, The Cool Surface and Navy SEALs. He has appeared in a variety of television programs, including ER; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; The X-Files; Beverly Hills, 90210; St. Elsewhere; Hunter, Murder, She Wrote, and M*A*S*H.

Selected film appearances

• 1980 Airplane!, Paramount as Bill
• 1981 Bloody Birthday (also known as Creepers), Rearguard, 1981 as Paul, Lori's Boyfriend
• 1981 Porky's (also known as Chez Porky), Twentieth Century-Fox, as Tim Cavanaugh
• 1983 Porky's II: The Next Day, Twentieth Century-Fox, as Tim Cavanaugh
• 1984 Purple Hearts as Zuma
• 1985 Means and Ends as Jeff
• 1988 Dance of the Damned, Concorde, as The Vampire
• 1990 Navy Seals, Orion, as Homer Rexer
• 1991 Across the Tracks, Desert Productions, as Coach Ryder
• 1993 Philadelphia Experiment II, Trimark Pictures, as Decker
• 1994 The Cool Surface as Gary / Eric
• 1995 Excessive Force II: Force on Force as Deacon
• 1995 Bloodfist VII (also known as Manhunt) as Tubbs
• 1996 Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (also known as Primal Species), New Horizons, as Dolan
• 1996 Midnight Blue, Motion Picture Corp. of America, as Dude
• 1997 Eruption! (also known as Volcano Run), Concorde, as Sam Conway
• 1998 Black Dog, Universal, as Vince
• 1999 The Protector, New Horizons, as Tony Angeleno
• 2000 Forever Fabulous as Cop
• 2002 Stages as Scott

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Television appearances

Miniseries

• 1986 On Wings of Eagles, NBC, Pat Scully

Movies

• 1981 Splendor in the Grass, NBC, as Bud Stamper
• 1983 An Uncommon Love, CBS, as Willie
• 1987 Carly's Web, NBC, as Frankie Bell
• 1988 Baja Oklahoma, HBO, as Weldon Taylor
• 1991 Matlock: The Witness Killings, as Russ Gifford
• 1993 A Place to Be Loved (also known as Shattered Family), CBS, as Raplh Kingsley
• 1996 The Unspeakable (also known as Criminal Pursuit, Roger Corman Presents The Unspeakable, and Shadow of a Scream), Showtime, as Don Holroyd
• 1996 The Cottonwood, Showtime, as Carlo Shain
• 1998 T.N.T., HBO,

Pilots

• 1980 Skag, NBC,
• 1983 Inspector Perez, NBC, as Danny McMahon

Episodic

• 1981 "Catnip," Darkroom, ABC, as Ronnie Shires
• 1982 "A Holy Mess," M*A*S*H, CBS, as Nick Gillis
• 1987 "Schwarzald," St. Elsewhere, NBC, as Klaus
• 1987 "Diminished Capacity," Houston Knights, CBS,
• 1987 "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf," Werewolf, as Bobby
• 1988 "Snow White, Blood Red," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, as John Dowd
• 1990 "A Death in the Family," Hardball, NBC,
• 1990 "Deadly Encounters: Parts 1 & 2," Hunter, NBC, as Michael Saccio
• 1993 "The Game Is Chicken," Beverly Hills, 90210, Fox, as Frank Padilla
• 1993 "A Killing in Cork," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, as Patrick Griffith
• 1994 "Sergeant Kelly," The Commish, ABC, as Terry Ross
• 1994 Terry Ross, "The Iceman Cometh," The Commish, ABC, as Terry Ross
• 1994 "An Egg to Die For," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, as Leo Stone
• 1995 "The Ballad of Lucas Burke," The Marshal, ABC, as Lucas Burke
• 1996 "Paradise Lost," Renegade, USA Network and syndicated, as Ned Cochran
• 1996 "The Brotherhood," Walker, Texas Ranger, CBS, as Frank Bodine
• 1997 "Cold Storage," Viper, syndicated, as Luke Riker
• 1997 "Face to Face," Night Man, The Disney Channel and syndicated, as E. Harold Bridges
• 1997 "Halloween," Mike Hammer, Private Eye, syndicated, as Cory Itser
• 1998 "Who Mourns for Morn?," Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, syndicated, as Nahsk
• 1998 "Bad to the Bone," Night Man, The Disney Channel and syndicated, as E. Haskell Bridges
• 1998 "Breaking Bread," Touched by an Angel, CBS, as Dutch Wilson
• 1999 "Burnt Offerings," Profiler, NBC, as Clint Darrow
• 2002 "A River in Egypt," ER, NBC, as Mike Kinney, Prisoner
• 2002 "Hellbound," The X-Files, Fox, as Ed Kelso
• Amazing Grace
• Marker

Stage appearances

• 2001 The Dead Boy, Laurelgrove Theatre, Studio City, CA, as Tony McGuire

References

1. "Cyril O'Reilly profile". Filmreference.com. 1958-06-08. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
2. "Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
3. . Archived from the original on December 15, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014.

External links

• Cyril O'Reilly at IMDb