However, the veteran actor was not the first choice to play Jay Pritchett. Instead, Modern Family creators first offered the role to Craig T. Nelson, who is known for playing Dale Ballard in Young ...

Rico Rodriguez joked that despite owing a lot to O'Neill, he knew nothing of his legendary career when the show began: "I'm ...

O'Neill at that point helped Rodriguez rehearse his lines in various ways until they found the right one. After that, it only ...

"Since he was such an old soul, he would have these big paragraphs and words that I had no idea what I was saying," Rodriguez ...

This wasn’t on our bingo card. Ed O’Neill turned heads during a surprise appearance on his daughter Claire’s TikTok. The video – which was posted Monday, March 24, and garnered nearly 10 ...

Ed O’Neill has revealed how he “messed up” in his feud with his “Married . . . With Children” co-star Amanda Bearse. O’Neill, 77, starred as Al Bundy in the edgy Fox sitcom from 1987 ...

O'Neill recounted the story on a new episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's 'Dinner's on Me' podcast Michael Kovac/Getty Mob life was not for Ed O'Neill. During a conversation with his former Modern ...

Ed O’Neill says he found out that his hit 80s-90s sitcom Married… with Children was canceled in the most impersonal way possible. After 10 years of starring as Al Bundy on the Fox show ...

According to Christina Applegate, Ed O'Neill didn't just play her dad on TV — he was a father figure in her real life too. While introducing her TV dad on the podcast, Applegate said ...

Ed O’Neill, who played curmudgeonly patriarch Al Bundy on the show, recently guested on the “MeSsy” podcast hosted by Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Christina Applegate, the latter of whom played his ...

Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett and Rico Rodriguez as Manny Delgado on 'Modern Family ...