![]() He has lived in Charleston, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, London, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, Zurich and Mondello (Sicily.) For the past four years, O'Neal has made his home on the Ashley River in Charleston, South Carolina. ![]() His work has taken him to some of the most exciting cities in the Americas and Europe. For the past 33 years, O'Neal has made his living as a film and television actor, screenwriter, photographer, and also as a commercial producer and director. O'Neal attended Clemson University, The University of South Carolina, Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science, and finally, Wofford College, where he discovered the Wofford Theatre Workshop and was thus, saved from a normal life. ![]() O'Neal was commissioned by Jerry Seinfeld to create a series of his "slow speed" natural light portraits of the cast and crew in the last year of that show. ![]() His photographs hang in the collections of many celebrities including Morgan Freeman, Johnny Depp, Billy Bob Thornton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Elizabeth Taylor, John Travolta, Emma Thompson and Oliver Stone. O'Neal's art photography has been featured in exhibitions at the Michael Hoppen Gallery (London), Castle Haggenberg (Vienna) and in private galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans and South Carolina. He also writes a popular political blog, "The Whole American Hog". He has spent much of the last 5 years writing screenplays and a book about his life. O'Neal Compton is best known as a character actor in films and television (Life, Nixon, Nell, Primary Colors, Deep Impact, Seinfeld, Diabolique.) He is also an award-winning writer, producer, photographer and director of television commercials.Ĭompton was badly injured (and partially paralyzed)in a fall while working in Florianopolis, Brazil in May, 2003, and had to stop working as an actor in films for a while. in Sumter, South Carolina, the son of educators. A portion of his ashes were released into the waters of Buffalo National River.He was born Belton O'Neal Compton, Jr. On March 1, 1972, thanks to the efforts of the Ozark Society and fellow supporters of wild, free-flowing rivers, President Richard Nixon and the United States Congress established Buffalo National River, the first unit of its kind within the national park system.Ĭompton was a celebrated author and photographer of Ozark landscapes, and he received numerous awards for his dedication to preserving wild places, including an honorary appointment as a National Park Ranger by National Park Service Director William Penn Mott in 1987.Ĭompton passed away in 1999, at the age of 86. Compton served as the Society's president, leading a widespread campaign to "Save the Buffalo River" through National Park Service designation and protection. Compton and fellow outdoor enthusiasts like Evangeline Pratt Archer organized and founded The Ozark Society ".to preserve wild and scenic rivers, wilderness, and unique natural areas in the Ozark-Ouachita region and surrounding lowlands." For more than a decade, Dr. Army Corps of Engineers published plans to build hydroelectric dams on the Buffalo River, Dr. When he wasn't delivering babies, he could often be found hiking, camping, or paddling at his favorite places in the Ozarks - one of which was the Buffalo River. Neil Compton is widely credited for organizing and spearheading the efforts that preserved the Buffalo River as a unit of the national park system in 1972.īorn and raised in rural Benton County in northwestern Arkansas, Compton grew up to become a revered physician of obstetrics in Bentonville and a beacon of conservation for the state of Arkansas. I challenge you to step forward to protect and care for the wild places you love best.” - Dr. There are other lands and rivers, other wilderness areas, to save and to share with all.
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