Bingo O'Malley

Edward J. "Bingo" O'Malley was an American actor. He has been called "Pittsburgh’s finest actor."

Biography

A native of South Oakland, Pennsylvania, O'Malley was the youngest of four children born to Catheryn Holleran and veteran firefighter Bartley J. O'Malley. The second youngest, brother Bart Jr., would meet his untimely end in 1959 at age 35, while following in the career footsteps of their father.
It was while working as a Navy radarman in Key West that O'Malley got his first role in a community theater production of The Rainmaker in the late 1950s.
He briefly aspired to the priesthood but found that "I am not religious." He then spent years as a juvenile-probation officer as well as a school social worker.
By the 1970s, O'Malley was working with a community theater in Churchill, Pennsylvania as well as the Pittsburgh Lab Theatre. For the next two decades O'Malley was one of the city's busiest actors.
On film, O'Malley appeared in fellow Pittsburgher George A. Romero's Knightriders as well as Creepshow and Two Evil Eyes. He also appeared in My [Bloody Valentine 3D] and Super 8.