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

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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

External links

• Cyril O'Reilly at IMDb