‘Angel’ director Robert Vincent O’Neil passes away at 91

Filmmaker

Robert

Vincent O’

Neil

, best known for helming the cult film ‘Angel’, is no more.


According to the news report, Robert died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday. He was 91.


O’Neil also co-wrote the Hollywood-set Vice

Squad

(1982), a crime thriller starring Wings Hauser as a sadistic pimp named Ramrod; co-wrote and helmed The Baltimore Bullet (1980), featuring James Coburn and Omar Sharif as pool hustlers. His first feature as a writer-director was Like Mother Like Daughter (1969), and he followed with such drive-in fare as The Psycho Lover (1970), Blood Mania (1970),

Wonder Women

(1973) and Paco (1975).


O’Neil is survived by his twin daughters, Lari (and her husband, Andrew) and Lisa (Bill); daughter Nicole (Lloyd); brother

Ron

(Evie); grandchildren Jessica, Quinn, Sara,

Russell

, Jess and Robert; and seven great-grandchildren.