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In 1983, he published the book Deadly Force, about a case of wrongful death and police brutality in which O'Donnell's father was the plaintiff's lawyer. [7] In 1986, the book was made into the film A Case of Deadly Force; Richard Crenna played O'Donnell's father, and Tate Donovan played O'Donnell; O'Donnell was associate producer. [8]
O'Donnell wrote the book after the 1975 unjustified shooting of 25-year-old James Bowden - an unarmed black man shot by white police officers, and its attendant cover-up by the Boston Police Department - when his own family became involved in the case. His father, Lawrence O'Donnell Sr., was the attorney for the plaintiff, Patricia Bowden.
James O'Donnell (organist) (born 1961), organist, choral conductor and academic teacher, Westminster Abbey; Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, Irish actress; Keir O'Donnell (born 1978), Australian actor living in Los Angeles; Lawrence O'Donnell (born 1951), American television host of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, political analyst and writer
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Rosie O'Donnell's father, Edward Joseph O'Donnell, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 81. Edward originally immigrated from Ireland and worked as an electrical engineer on New York's Long Island ...
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O'Donnell was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Noreen Bernadette (O'Kane) and Francis Lawrence O'Donnell, a medical doctor and U.S. Army officer. [2] Her parents are both of Irish descent, with roots in Derry, Belfast, and County Donegal (meaning she is descended from both sides of the Irish Border). Three of her grandparents were ...
O'Donnell, the third of five children, was born and raised in Commack, Long Island, New York. [3] [4] Her parents were homemaker Roseann Teresa (née Murtha; 1934–1973) and Edward Joseph O'Donnell (1933–2015), an electrical engineer who worked in the defense industry. [4]