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Tony Oller

American singer and actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ84053
Source-derived summary

Anthony Michael Oller (born February 25, 1991) is an American actor and singer. He had roles as Walt Moore on the TeenNick TV show Gigantic, and as Danny on Disney Channel's As the Bell Rings. He appeared in the films Beneath the Darkness and The Purge. He was also half of the group MKTO with his co-star Malcolm David Kelley, before leaving the group in 2021.

Early life

Oller was raised in Houston, Texas, the son of Mary Anne (née Brown) and Jeff Oller. He began acting in elementary school, having been cast as a lead role in a school Christmas play. He graduated with honors in Debate from Cy-Fair High School in 2009.

Career

Acting career

Oller appeared in both seasons of the Disney Channel short comedy series As the Bell Rings as Danny. The show consisted of short episodes that showed during commercial breaks and took place in a single high school hallway where the character hang out between classes, and the show was originally based on Italy's short form TV series "Quelli dell'Intervallo". As The Bell Rings features three original songs recorded by Oller.

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“Tony Oller” enters the record as american singer and actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tony, Oller and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2021, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-02-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tony, Oller and American.
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“Tony Oller” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tony, Oller and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q84053. VIAF identifies the subject as 232340261. The Library of Congress control number is no2012024952. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2021 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Tony Oller” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.