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Thomas F. O'Neil was born on 18 April, 1915 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, is an American businessman. Discover Thomas F. O'Neil's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?
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Businessman |
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83 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
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18 April 1915 |
| Birthday |
18 April |
| Birthplace |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Date of death |
1998 |
| Died Place |
Greenwich, Connecticut, United States |
| Nationality |
United States
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Thomas F. O'Neil Height, Weight & Measurements
At 83 years old, Thomas F. O'Neil height not available right now. We will update Thomas F. O'Neil's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Thomas F. O'Neil's Wife?
His wife is Claire Miller
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Claire Miller |
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5 |
Thomas F. O'Neil Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Thomas F. O'Neil worth at the age of 83 years old? Thomas F. O'Neil’s income source is mostly from being a successful businessman. He is from United States. We have estimated Thomas F. O'Neil's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Not Available |
| Source of Income |
businessman |
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Timeline
Thomas F. O'Neil (1915–1998) was the chairman of RKO General studios who brought movies to television and experimented with an early coin-operated pay-TV system.
O'Neil was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 18, 1915..
He graduated from College of the Holy Cross, where he was a star football player, in 1937.
Beginning in 1941, he served five years in the Coast Guard.
O'Neil's career began with the General Tire and Rubber Company, which his father William F. O'Neil had founded.
O'Neil was running the tire company's Boston office when he visited the offices of the Yankee Network, a radio network the company had invested in to regain radio advertising costs.
O'Neil was back from the war in the Pacific when he formed General Teleradio in 1948 by combining the Yankee Network with a station operating in a new medium: WNAC-TV's first telecasts went to exactly two small-screen television sets placed in the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston.
It was his television stations' need for programming that led O'Neil to start buying the broadcast rights to movies.
Some Hollywood studios boycotted the venture for fear that giving away movies on television free would undermine their theater business, and O'Neil had to scramble to find titles, once paying the Bank of America $1.3 million for 30 titles in 1953.
Only interested in the broadcast rights to the movies for his stations, O'Neil started selling those rights to other TV outlets, a process that he called syndication.
O'Neil took General Teleradio into the motion picture studio business because of his constant need for new titles, and that quest took him into nonstop negotiating with Howard Hughes, the eccentric pilot and entrepreneur, for the purchase of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
According to legend, O'Neil haggled with Hughes in taxicabs while driving around Central Park, on cross-country flights flown by Hughes and in Las Vegas until in 1954 the duo signed a contract in the men's room at the Beverly Hills Hotel, turning RKO Pictures over to General Teleradio for $25 million, or about $150 million at today's prices.
O'Neil changed the studio's name to RKO Teleradio Pictures at first, then eventually to RKO General.
The studio library's hundreds of titles solved O'Neil's movie programming problems, and he began diversifying his company into regional airlines as well as resort hotels and Pepsi-Cola bottling franchises.
O'Neil retired from RKO General in 1985
O'Neil married Claire Miller, and they had five children.
