Ryan O'Neal
Actor
- Born
- April 20, 1941 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- Died
- December 8, 2023 (age 82)
Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal (April 20, 1941 – December 8, 2023) was an American actor and former boxer. O'Neal trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place. The series was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career.
He later found success in films, most notably Love Story (1970), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Actor, Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Walter Hill's The Driver (1978).
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From 2005 to 2017, he had a recurring role in the Fox TV series Bones as Max, the father of the show's protagonist.
Known for
Barry Lyndon
December 16, 1975
A Bridge Too Far
June 15, 1977
Paper Moon
May 9, 1973
Love Story
December 16, 1970
Knight of Cups
September 10, 2015
The Driver
June 8, 1978
What's Up, Doc?
March 9, 1972
Malibu's Most Wanted
April 10, 2003
Chances Are
March 10, 1989
Zero Effect
January 30, 1998
Man of the House
March 3, 1995
People I Know
November 21, 2002
Acting50
- 2024Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze as Self (archive footage)
- 2019My Best Friend's Famous as Himself
- 2019This Is Farrah Fawcett as Self (archive footage)
- 2018Filmworker as Self
- 2015Knight of Cups as Ryan
- 2015Unity as Narrator (voice)
- 2014Kubrick Remembered as Self
- 2012Slumber Party Slaughter as William O'Toole
- 2009Farrah's Story as Self
- 2003ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration