DAYTON — A Dayton native and respected Hollywood actress has died.
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Barbara O. Jones died Tuesday at the age of 82 at her home in Dayton, her brother Raymond Minor told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Rest in peace and strength,” Dash wrote on social media.
She emerged from the LA Rebellion movement of black filmmakers at UCLA in the 1970s and starred in Haile Jerima’s Bush Mamas and Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jones was known as Barbara O, Barbara O, and Barbara O throughout her career.
She also co-starred with Muhammad Ali in the 1979 TV movie Freedom Road, according to imdb.com.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jones graduated from Roosevelt High School and his mother, Alberta, was a business teacher.
She was also a local radio personality in the 1960s under the name Bobby Montgomery.
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Several tributes have been poured in following Jones’ death.
Jonathan McNeil, owner of The Neon, expressed his condolences on social media.
“For me, she’s O,” he wrote on Neon’s Facebook page. “Her phone calls both grounded me and lifted me up…and even though it has been a while since she called, I still hear her voice. We will miss her presence, but she will continue to lift us up.”
Academy Award-winning independent theatrical distribution and production company Cohen Media Group called Jones a “fantastic actress.”
“Rest in Peace, Barbara O. Jones,” they said in a statement. Social media. “A wonderful actress starred in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, a groundbreaking film that we are honored to include in our catalog. Today, with her death, the world is a little smaller, a little darker. became.”
