Star of “Love Story,” “Paper Moon,” “Peyton Place,” and “Barry Lyndon,” Ryan O’Neal, dies at the age of 82

Actor Ryan O’Neal, who starred opposite his astute daughter Tatum in “Paper Moon” and received an Oscar nomination for the heartfelt “Love Story,” passed away.
According to his son, Ryan O’Neal, the handsome actor who rose from a TV soap opera to an Oscar nomination in “Love Story” and gave a comedic performance alongside his endearing nine-year-old daughter Tatum in “Paper Moon,” passed away on Friday.

Sportscaster Patrick O’Neal of Los Angeles wrote on Instagram, “My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side, supporting him and loving him as he would us.”

The cause of death was not stated. A decade after receiving his initial diagnosis of chronic leukemia, Ryan O’Neal was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012. He was eighty-two.

Patrick O’Neal wrote, “My father, Ryan O’Neal, has always been my hero. He is a Hollywood legend.” Complete halt.

To me, he was everything. I know he loved me too, and I loved him very much,” Tatum O’Neal said in a statement to People magazine. “I’ll always miss him. and it is truly fortunate for me that we parted ways amicably.

In the 1970s, Ryan O’Neal was one of the biggest movie stars in the world. He collaborated on a number of films across genres with some of the most well-known directors of the time, such as Stanley Kubrick for “Barry Lyndon” and Peter Bogdanovich on “Paper Moon” and “What’s Up, Doc?” His boyish, blond good looks were often employed to play men whose polished appearances belied dark or sinister backgrounds.

In the 2010s, O’Neal continued to have a successful career in television acting well into his 70s. He made appearances on shows like “Bones” and “Desperate Housewives,” but his turbulent family life and long-standing relationship with Farrah Fawcett kept him in the public eye.

After going through two divorces, O’Neal had a romantic relationship with Fawcett for almost thirty years. In 1985, their son Redmond was born.

The pair parted ways in 1997 but got back together a few years later. He stood by Fawcett’s side during her illness, which ultimately claimed her life in 2009 at the age of 62.

A co-star in the 1973 film “Paper Moon,” Tatum O’Neal and actor Griffin O’Neal were born to O’Neal and Joanna Moore, his first wife, for which she received an Oscar for best supporting actress. With Leigh Taylor-Young, his second wife, he had a son named Patrick.

In the 1970 heartbreaking drama “Love Story,” which costarred Ali MacGraw and told the story of a young couple who fall in love, get married, and then learn that the woman is dying of cancer, Ryan O’Neal received his own Oscar nomination for best actor. The film features the iconic, yet frequently parodied, quote, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

He was still close to Fawcett, and they later reignited their romance in the 2000s, but by then their relationship had ended. But the erratic O’Neal family dynamics that had previously strain their relationship persisted.

The elder O’Neal was taken into custody in 2007 on suspicion of assault and firing a weapon during a fight with Griffin, but no legal action was taken. Redmond, their son, was jailed, arrested, and sent to treatment on a court-mandated basis on multiple occasions.

Redmond O’Neal was arrested for possessing methamphetamine in September 2008 after his father’s Malibu home was used for a probation check. Ryan O’Neal entered a drug diversion program after entering a guilty plea to the charge, but he openly denied owning the drugs. He claimed to have taken them away from his son and was trying to protect him.

The son of actor Patricia Callaghan O’Neal and screenwriter Charles O’Neal, Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal was born on April 20, 1941. Before realizing that performing was his true calling, O’Neal worked as a lifeguard and an amateur boxer.