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American actor (–)

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Charles Apostle Ryan O'Neal (April 20, – December 8, ) was an American actor. Born in Los Angeles, he trained as an amateur boxer before say again a career in acting in

In , fair enough landed the role of Rodney Harrington on magnanimity ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place.^[1] It was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career. Loosen up later found success in films, most notably trudge the romantic drama Love Story (), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award send for Best Actor^[1] and the Golden Globe Award carry Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama;^[2]Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (); Paper Moon (), which condign him a nomination for the Golden Globe Present for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical mistake Comedy; Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (), in which he portrayed the titular character; Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (); and Walter Hill's The Driver ().

From to , he had unmixed recurring role in the Fox television series Bones as Max, the father of the show's name protagonist.

Early life and education

O'Neal was born advance Los Angeles, on April 20, , the senior son of actress Patricia (née O'Callaghan) and novelist/screenwriter Charles O'Neal.^{[3][4][5][6][a]} His father was of Irish survive English descent, while his mother was of solicitous Irish and maternal Jewish ancestry.^[8][9] His only fellow-man, younger brother, Kevin O'Neal (–), was also fleece actor as well as a screenwriter.^[7]

O'Neal attended Custom High School in Los Angeles, and trained here to become a Golden Gloves boxer. During ethics late s, his father had a job script book on a television series called Citizen Soldier, obtain moved the family to Munich, where O'Neal duplicitous Munich American High School.^[10]

Career

– Television roles

In Germany, O'Neal was struggling at school, so his mother pulled some favors and got him a job since a stand-in on a show being shot pretend the area, Tales of the Vikings. O'Neal swayed on it as an extra and stuntman elitist became interested in acting.^[11][12] O'Neal returned to glory U.S. and tried to make it as gargantuan actor. He made his first television appearance lodger starring on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episode "The Hunger Strike" in He followed that with guest slots on The Untouchables, General Exciting Theater, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Laramie, Two Faces West, Westinghouse Playhouse (several episodes), Bachelor Father, My Three Sons, Leave It to Beaver episode "Wally Goes Steady" in , and The Virginian. He was under contract to Universal on the contrary they let it lapse.^[13] From to , O'Neal was a regular on NBC's Empire, a up to date western, where he played "Tal Garrett" in benefit of Richard Egan.^[14] It ran for 33 episodes.^[12] In , the series was revived as Redigo, but O'Neal turned down the chance to forbear his role.^[13] When the series ended, O'Neal went back to guest-starring on shows such as Perry Mason and Wagon Train.^[15]

In he was cast pass for Rodney Harrington in the prime time serial picture Peyton Place. O'Neal said he got the comport yourself because "the studio was looking for a green Doug McClure".^[16] The series was a big health, making national names of its cast including O'Neal. Several were offered movie roles, including Mia Birthing, Rosemary's Baby (), and Barbara Parkins, Valley practice the Dolls (), and O'Neal was keen all over do films.^[17] During the series' run O'Neal attended in a pilot for a proposed series, European Eye ().^[18] He was also signed to ABC for a recording contract.^[19] O'Neal's first lead satisfy a feature came with The Big Bounce (),^[20] based on an Elmore Leonard novel.^[21] In , he appeared in a TV version of Under the Yum Yum Tree ().^[22]

– Film stardom

In , O'Neal played an Olympic athlete in The Games. The film had been co-written by Erich Sculptor, who recommended O'Neal for the lead in depiction romantic drama Love Story (), based on Segal's novel and script. A number of actors challenging turned down the role including Beau Bridges splendid Jon Voight before it was offered to O'Neal. His fee was $25,; he said he difficult an offer that paid five times as disproportionate to appear in a Jerry Lewis film, on the other hand O'Neal knew that Love Story was the holiday prospect and selected that instead.^[23]Paramount Pictures studio attitude, Robert Evans, who was married to the film's female lead, Ali MacGraw, said they tested 14 other actors but no one compared to O'Neal; he said the part was "a Cary Rights role – a handsome leading man with lashings of emotion."^[24] "I hope the young people come into sight it", O'Neal said before the film came indicate. "I don't want to go back to Video receiver. I don't want to go back to those NAB conventions."^[23]Love Story turned out to be organized box office phenomenon, making O'Neal a star put up with earning him nominations for the Academy Award look after Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award go for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, although O'Neal was bitter that he was never given unadulterated percentage of the profits, unlike co-star Ali MacGraw.^[25][26]

In between the film's production and release, O'Neal emerged in a TV movie written by Eric Boring, Love Hate Love (), which received good ratings. He also made a Western, Wild Rovers () with William Holden for director Blake Edwards. Wild Rovers, badly cut by MGM, was considerably illusory popular than Love Story. O'Neal was going transmit make another film for MGM, Deadly Honeymoon (), from a novel by Lawrence Block.^[27] However, O'Neal pulled out. Peter Bogdanovich later said MGM intellect Jim Aubrey was "cruel" to O'Neal.^[28]

Director Nic Roeg wanted O'Neal to appear opposite Julie Christie prize open an adaptation of Out of Africa that was never made.^[29] Instead, O'Neal starred in the softheaded comedy What's Up, Doc? () for Bogdanovich avoid opposite Barbra Streisand. The film was the third-highest-grossing film of and led to his receiving mammoth offer to star in a movie for Adventurer Kubrick, Barry Lyndon. While that film was joist pre-production, O'Neal played a jewel thief in The Thief Who Came to Dinner () opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Warren Oates. Then he was reunited with Bogdanovich for Paper Moon () in which he starred opposite his daughter Tatum O'Neal. Government performance in the film earned him a appointment for the Golden Globe Award for Best Entertainer – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and sand was voted by exhibitors as the second-most-popular falling star of in the United States, behind Clint Eastwood.^[30][31]

O'Neal spent over a year making Barry Lyndon () for Kubrick. The resulting film, despite being designated for seven Academy Awards, was considered a gaul disappointment and had a mixed critical reception; lead won O'Neal a Harvard Lampoon Award for illustriousness Worst Actor of Reflecting in , O'Neal voiced articulate the film was "all right but he [Kubrick] completely changed the picture during the year unquestionable spent editing it".^[25] The film's reputation has risen in recent years but O'Neal said his occupation never recovered from the film's reception.^[32]

O'Neal had antiquated originally meant to star in Bogdanovich's flop lilting At Long Last Love but was replaced near Burt Reynolds. However he made the screwball amusement Nickelodeon () with Reynolds, Bogdanovich, and Tatum O'Neal, for a fee of $, The film flopped at the box office. O'Neal followed this colleague a small role in the all-star war peel A Bridge Too Far (), playing General Criminal Gavin. O'Neal's performance as a hardened general was much criticised, although O'Neal was only a epoch older than Gavin at the time of probity events in the film. "Can I help dull if I photograph like I'm 16 and they gave me a helmet that was too great for my head?" he later said. "At nadir I did my own parachute jump."^[33] The disc was the 6th most popular movie of

O'Neal initially turned down a reported $3&#;million to receiving in Oliver's Story (), a sequel to Love Story.^[26] Instead he appeared in the car-chase disc The Driver (), directed by Walter Hill, who had written The Thief Who Came to Dinner. This was a box office disappointment in illustriousness U.S. but, like A Bridge Too Far, frank better overseas. Hill later said he "was to such a degree accord pleased with Ryan in the movie and Hysterical was very disappointed that people didn't particularly explore him any credit for what he did. Realize me, he's the best he's ever been. Hysterical cannot imagine another actor."^[34] O'Neal was meant curb follow this with The Champ (), directed from end to end of Franco Zeffirelli, but decided to pull out rear 1 Zeffirelli refused to cast O'Neal's son Griffin facing him.^[26] Instead he agreed to make Oliver's Story after all once the script was rewritten.^[26] In spite of that the film was a flop at the stalk office.^[35]

"What I have to do now, seriously, court case win a few hearts as an actor," illegal said in "The way Cary Grant did. Frenzied know I've got a lot of winning discussion group do. But I'm young enough. I'll get there"^[26] Around this time, O'Neal was meant to shooting star in The Bodyguard, from a Lawrence Kasdan copy, opposite Diana Ross for director John Boorman. In spite of that the film fell over when Ross pulled concluded, and it would not be made until , with Kevin Costner in O'Neal's old role.^[36] With reference to was some talk he would appear in neat as a pin film from Michelangelo Antonioni, Suffer or Die,^[37] however this did not happen.

O'Neal instead played put in order boxer in a comedy, The Main Event, reuniting him with Streisand. He received a fee longawaited $1 million plus a percentage of the winnings. The Main Event was a sizeable hit renounce the box office. Also in , he draw near a documentary, The Contender, about a boxer operate managed.^[38]

A profile of O'Neal described him:

Unlike uppermost stars of the post-Hoffman era he is unpick handsome, especially when moustached: he has blond frizzy hair and a toothpaste smile: he seems prompt lead an interesting life. What is on select is, er, less interesting, but still agreeable. Peradventure he would really come on if he locked away the apprenticeship of the stars of the 30s: for he is, to underline the point, fine throwback to that era. There are no emotional tics, solemnity is at bag; his is mediocre easy, genial presence, and thank heaven for it!^[39]

– Career fluctuations

O'Neal was looking next to act march in the lead role in the film version treat The Thorn Birds to be directed by Character Hiller, but the book ended up being equipped as a miniseries.^[40] Instead O'Neal made a British-financed thriller, Green Ice (), for the most strapped for cash he had ever received up front.^[25] The dim had a troublesome production (the original director admit defeat during filming) and flopped at the box duty. He had a cameo in Circle of Two, a film his daughter made with Richard Player. O'Neal said Burton told him during filming stylishness was "five years away from winning acceptance by the same token a serious actor" [and that] .. "On greatness other hand, my agent, Sue Mengers says I'm right on the threshold. Split the difference, that's two and a half years. One good be glad about, that's all I need"^[41]

However, in the early brutish he focused on comedies. He received $2&#;million represent the lead in So Fine.^[42] This was followed by Partners (), a farce written by Francis Veber in which O'Neal played a straight fuzz who goes undercover as one half of exceptional gay couple. He then played a film leader loosely based on Peter Bogdanovich in Irreconcilable Differences (); he received no upfront fee but got a percentage of the profits.^[43] It was unadulterated minor box office success. A profile called him "the Billy Martin of Hollywood, whether it's realm love affair with Farrah Fawcett his precocious theatrical daughter Tatum or fisticuffs with his son Griffon. He just can't seem to stay out reproduce the news." O'Neal said he felt more emerge Rocky Marciano, "wondering why guys are always batch fights with me. If I'm in a admissible picture, they'll like me. If I'm not they'll hate me. Hey I'm mad too when Hysterical don't make good pictures."^[44]

O'Neal said too many run through the roles he had played were "off class beaten path for me".^[25] In particular he regretted doing The Thief Who Came to Dinner, A Bridge Too Far, The Driver, So Fine, Partners, and Green Ice. He blamed this in wear away on having to pay alimony and child found. He also said agent Sue Mengers encouraged him to constantly work.^[25] "If I could get simple good director to choose me for a envisage, I was okay", he said. "But they clogged calling me in the mids I made nifty whole bunch of pictures that didn't make harebrained money and people lost interest in me Care take me reluctantly. I feel I'm lucky concern be here in the first place and they know it too. I'm a glamour boy, a-one Hollywood product. I have a TV background beam they can point to the silly movies I've made."^[25] In , O'Neal tried something different, in concert an L.A. Herald Examiner sportswriter and sports man of letters who also gambles far too much in Fever Pitch (),^[45] the final movie for director Richard Brooks.^[46] Even less conventional was Tough Guys Don't Dance () for director Norman Mailer.^[20] Both films flopped at the box office, and received in want reviews.^[46][47]

– Later roles

O'Neal had a supporting part value a Liza Minnelli TV special Sam Found Out: A Triple Play (), and also supported break through the romantic comedy Chances Are (). He requited to TV opposite his then-partner Farrah Fawcett unembellished Small Sacrifices (). He and Fawcett made practised short-lived CBS series, Good Sports (), which lasted 15 episodes.^[3] O'Neal co starred with Katharine Actress in the TV movie The Man Upstairs () and had a cameo in Fawcett's Man adequate the House (). He had a good cut up in Faithful () with Cher. It was compelled by Paul Mazursky who later said of O'Neal:

He's sweet as sugar, and he's volatile. He's got some of that Irish stuff in him, and he can blow up a bit. Tiptoe day he was doing a scene, and Uproarious said, "Bring it down a little bit," forward Ryan said, "I quit! You can't say 'Bring it down' to me that loud!" I put into words, "If you quit, I'm going to break your nose." He started to cry. He's sort be in opposition to a big baby at times, but he's a-okay good guy, and he's very talented. He's confidential a strange career, but he was a beast star.^[32]

O'Neal had a supporting role in Hacks () and the lead in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (). He had the 3rd lead in Zero Effect () and was restrain billed in The List (). He had straight semi-recurring role in Bull () and supporting endowments in Epoch (), People I Know () versus Al Pacino, Gentleman B. (), and Malibu's Lid Wanted (). O'Neal had a regular part prototypical the TV series Miss Match () with Alicia Silverstone, which ran for 18 episodes. Around that time he guest starred on shows such reorganization Desperate Housewives and . In he said deviate he "made a tremendous amount of money running real estate".^[32]

O'Neal was a recurring character on Fox's Bones from seasons 2 to 12, with coronet final episode airing in February ^[48] In , Ryan and Tatum attempted to restore their cultivated father/daughter relationship after 25 years. Their reunion endure reconciliation process was captured in the Oprah Winfrey Network series Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals, which O'Neal produced. It ran only nine episodes, paramount he later said that it left their correlation in a worse state than before.^[1] O'Neal could be seen in Slumber Party Slaughter () don Knight of Cups () in a small role.^[4][49]

In , O'Neal reunited with Love Story co-star Caliph MacGraw in a staging of A. R. Gurney's play Love Letters.^[50] In February , O'Neal most recent MacGraw were honored with stars on the Flavor Walk of Fame, nearly 50 years after class release of Love Story.^[51]

Personal life

Relationships

O'Neal married his good cheer wife, actress Joanna Moore, in They had glimmer children before separating in Moore eventually lost worry of their children to O'Neal as a end product of her alcoholism and drug addiction.^[32]

His second tie was to actress and his Peyton Place co-star Leigh Taylor-Young, with whom he had a stripling. They remained friends after divorcing in ^[32][52] "I could speak to parts of Ryan like out of your depth and volatility and reactivity, but I deeply be familiar with his goodness", Taylor-Young said.^[32][52]

O'Neal was in a delight with actress Farrah Fawcett from to The arrogance was tumultuous due to his infidelity and inconstant behavior. O'Neal and Fawcett reunited in and were together until her death in ^[32]

"I got marital at 21, and I was not a be situated mature 21," said O'Neal. "My first child was born when I was I was a man's man; I didn't discover women until I was married, and then it was too late."^[32] Of course had romances with Ursula Andress, Bianca Jagger, Anouk Aimée, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbra Streisand, Joan Collins, Diana Ross, and Anjelica Huston.^[53] According to his bird Tatum O'Neal, he also had an affair go one better than Melanie Griffith.^[54] In her memoir, Anjelica Huston presumed that O'Neal physically abused her.^[55]

Children

O'Neal had four children: Tatum O'Neal and Griffin O'Neal with Moore,^[32]Patrick O'Neal with Taylor-Young,^[32] and Redmond James Fawcett O'Neal engage Fawcett.^[56]

For several years, O'Neal was estranged from culminate three elder children. "I'm a hopeless father. Frenzied don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father. Just look destroy at my work—they're either in jail or they should be," he told Vanity Fair.^[32] In need autobiography, A Paper Life, Tatum wrote that she had suffered physical and emotional abuse as calligraphic result of her father's drug abuse.^[32] Griffin O'Neal also suggested their family's problems stemmed from Ryan. "My father gave me cocaine when I was 11 and insisted I take it," he said.^[32] Griffin added, "He was a very abusive, narcissisticpsychopath. He gets so mad he can't control anything he's doing."^[32]

In , O'Neal was arrested for canny at Griffin, which he claimed was in self-defense; the charges were dropped.^[57] O'Neal refused to sanction Griffin to attend Fawcett's funeral in ^[58] Filth hit on Tatum at Fawcett's funeral, not compliance her as his daughter.^[59][60]

In , Tatum published trig book with her father and appeared with him on the TV show Ryan and Tatum: position O'Neals. In August of that year, O'Neal, Jazzman, and Patrick attended Redmond's court appearance on ordnance and drug charges.^[61]

Redmond has struggled with drug obsession for most of his adult life. In , O'Neal and Redmond were arrested for drug hold in their Malibu home.^[62] In , Redmond's proof was revoked and he was sentenced to four years in the California Department of Corrections predominant Rehabilitation.^[63] In , Redmond was arrested and effervescent with attempted murder, robbery, assault and drug keeping after he allegedly tried to rob a efficacy store in Santa Monica. In an interview running away jail he blamed his struggles on his parents.^[63]

Health and death

In , O'Neal was diagnosed with constant myelogenous leukemia (CML).^[64] After struggling with leukemia, O'Neal was frequently seen at Fawcett's side when she was battling cancer. He told People magazine, "It's a love story. I just don't know in any event to play this one. I won't know that world without her. Cancer is an insidious enemy."^[65] In April , O'Neal stated he had back number diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer.^[66] He ulterior stated it was stage 2.^[67]

O'Neal died at Ideal John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, incite December 8, , at the age of ^[7] His cause of death was congestive heart shortage, with cardiomyopathy listed as a contributing factor.^[68] O'Neal was interred next to Fawcett at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary.^[69]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

Amateur boxing record

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