Ryan O'Neal

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Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal (born April 20, 1941) is an American actor and former boxer.

Before starting his career in acting in 1960, O'Neal began as an amateur boxer.

Rodney Harrington appeared on ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place in 1964.

The series was a hit on the internet 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 and Best Actor, Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), and Walter Hill's The Driver (1978).

Max, the show's protagonist's father, appeared in the Fox TV series Bones from 2005 to 2017.

Early life

Charles Patrick O'Neal was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest son of actress Patricia Ruth Olga (née O'Callaghan; 1907–2003) and novelist and screenwriter Charles O'Neal. His father was of Irish and English descent, while his mother was of paternal Irish and maternal Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Kevin is an actor and screenwriter.

O'Neal attended University High School in Los Angeles and trained there to be a Golden Gloves boxer. His father had a job writing on a television show called Citizen Soldier, and the family moved to Munich, where O'Neal attended Munich American High School in the late 1950s.

Personal life

In 1963, O'Neal married actress Joanna Moore, his first wife. They had two children before separating in 1966. Moore's children were eventually lost to O'Neal as a result of her alcoholism and heroin use.

Leigh Taylor-Young, actress Leigh Taylor-Young, was his second marriage, with whom he had a son. They were best friends after divorcing in 1973. "I could relate to parts of Ryan like temper and turbulence, as well as reactivity," Taylor-Young said.

From 1979 to 1997, O'Neal was in a relationship with actress Farrah Fawcett. His infidelity and tumultuous behavior ruined the marriage. Fawcett ended her relationship after discovering O'Neal in bed with actress Leslie Stefanson. In 2001, O'Neal and Fawcett reunited, and they were together until her death in 2009.

"I was married at 21, but I wasn't a mature 21," O'Neal said. "My first child was born when I was 22 years old." I was a man's man; I didn't find women until I was married, and then it was too late." Ursula Andress, Bianca Jagger, Anouk Aimée, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, and Anjelica Huston all had romances with her. Tatum O'Neal's daughter reports that he had an affair with Melanie Griffith. Anjelica Huston claimed that O'Neal physically assaulted her in her 2014 memoir.

Tatum O'Neal and Griffin O'Neal with Moore, Patrick O'Neal with Taylor-Young, and Redmond James Fawcett with Fawcett.

O'Neal had been alienated from his elder three children for many years. "I'm a hopeless father." I'm not sure why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father. Taking a look at my work: they're either in jail or they should be, as he told Vanity Fair. Tatum's autobiography, A Paper Life, said she had suffered physical and emotional abuse as a result of her father's heroin use. Griffin O'Neal also suggested that their family's problems related to Ryan. "My father gave me cocaine when I was 11 years old and insisted I take it," he said. "He was a very violent, narcissistic psychopath," Griffin said. He's so ill that he can't worry about what he's doing."

O'Neal was arrested in 2007 for firing at Griffin, which he said was in self-defense; charges were dismissed. In 2009, O'Neal refused to allow Griffin to attend Fawcett's funeral. At Fawcett's funeral, he screamed at Tatum, not acknowledging her as his daughter. Tatum's father died in 2011, but Tatum and Tatum: the O'Neals reunited with her father with a book and a television show. O'Neal, Tatum, and Patrick were among those arrested and arrested on weapons and drug charges in August of this year. For the most part of his adult life, Redmond has struggled with heroin use. O'Neal and Redmond were arrested in 2008 for cocaine use in their Malibu home. Redmond's probation was suspended in 2015 and he was sentenced to three years in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. After reportedly attempting to rob a convenience store in Santa Monica, Redmond was arrested and charged with attempted murder, robbery, assault, and heroin use. In a prison interview, he attributed his parents' struggles to his parents.

O'Neal was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in 2001. O'Neal was often seen on Fawcett's side when she was fighting cancer after being battling leukemia. "It's a love story," he told People magazine. I'm just curious how to play this one. I won't know this world without her. Cancer is a vehement enemy." O'Neal's prostate cancer diagnosis in April 2012 revealed himself in the first week.

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Career

O'Neal was struggling at school, so his mother gave him some help and got him a job as a stand-in on a show called Tales of the Vikings in Berlin. O'Neal appeared on it as an extra and stuntman and became interested in acting.

O'Neal returned to the United States and attempted to make it as an actor. In 1960, he appeared on "The Hunger Strike," his first television appearance guest on the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episode "The Hunger Strike." He continued with guest pictures from The Untouchables, GE Theater, The DuPont Show (several episodes), Bachelor Father, My Three Sons, and "Total Bulletin" in 1961 and The Virginian. He was under Universal's control when he was born but they allowed it to lapse.

O'Neal appeared on NBC's Empire, another modern-day western, where he portrayed "Tal Garrett" in favor of Richard Egan from 1962 to 1963. It lasted for 33 episodes. In 1963, the series was revived as Redigo, but O'Neal refused to reprise his role. O'Neal went back to guest-starring on shows such as Perry Mason and Wagon Train when the series ended.

Rodney Harrington was cast as Rodney Harrington in the prime time serial drama Peyton Place in 1964. "The studio was looking for a young Doug McClure," O'Neal said.

The series was a huge success, with national recognition of its cast including O'Neal. Many actors have been offered film roles, including Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby (1968), Barbara Parkins, Valley of the Dolls (1967), and O'Neal wanted to do films.

O'Neal appeared in a pilot for a new series, European Eye (1968). He had also signed to ABC for a recording deal.

The Big Bounce (1969), based on an Elmore Leonard book, was O'Neal's first lead in a film. He appeared in Under the Yum Yum Yum Tree's television version (1969).

In 1970, he competed in The Games as an Olympic athlete. Erich Segal, who recommended O'Neal for the lead in Love Story (1970), based on Segal's book and script, had co-written the film. Beau Bridges and Jon Voight, among others, had turned down the opportunity before it was offered to O'Neal. His fee was $25,000; he said he had an offer that cost five times as much to be in a Jerry Lewis film, but O'Neal knew that Love Story was the right option and chose that instead. Robert Evans, the film's female lead, who was also married to Ali MacGraw, said they tested 14 other actors but not one like O'Neal; he said the role was "a Cary Grant role – a handsome leading man with a lot of emotion." "I hope the young people like it," O'Neal said before the film came out. "I don't want to go back to television." I don't want to go back to those NAB conventions." Love Story turned out to be a box office phenomenon. It made O'Neal a star and earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor, but O'Neal was angry that he was never given a piece of the money, unlike co-star Ali MacGraw.

O'Neal appeared in Love Hate Love (1971), a film that received positive reviews between the film's production and publication. With William Holden for director Blake Edwards, he produced a Western, Wild Rovers (1971). Wild Rovers, who MGM had dramatically reduced success, were significantly less popular than Love Story. From a Larry Block book, O'Neal was supposed to make another film for MGM, Deadly Honeymoon (1974). However, O'Neal was forced to leave, but O'Neal was dissatisfied. MGM CEO Jim Aubrey was "cruel" to O'Neal, according to Peter Bogdanovich later.

Director Nic Roeg wanted O'Neal to appear opposite Julie Christie in an adaptation of Out of Africa that was never made. Rather, O'Neal appeared in the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972), for Bogdanovich, and opposite Barbra Strobisand. The film was the third-highest-grossing of 1972, and it culminated in him being invited to act in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon's film. In The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1972) opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Warren Oates, O'Neal played a jewel thief when the film was in pre-production. In Paper Moon (1973), then was reunited with Bogdanovich, in which he appeared opposite his daughter Tatum O'Neal. Tatum received an Oscar for her role in the film, but Ryan O'Neal was voted the second-most popular celebrity in the country by exhibitors in 1973, behind Clint Eastwood.

O'Neal made Barry Lyndon (1975) for Kubrick for a year. The resulting film was considered a commercial disappointment and received mixed critical response; it was named O'Neal's Best Actor of 1975 for the Worst Actor of 1975. O'Neal said the film was "all right," but "he [Kubrick] completely changed the photo during the year he spent editing it." The film's success has improved in recent years, but O'Neal claims he never recovered from the film's premiere.

O'Neal had been intended to appear in Bogdanovich's flop musical At Long Last Love, but Burt Reynolds had to take his place. However, he produced the screwball comedy Nickelodeon (1976) with Reynolds, Bogdanovich, and Tatum O'Neal for $750,000. At the box office, the film flopped.

O'Neal continued his acting in A Bridge Too Far (1977), starring General James Gavin. O'Neal's performance as a hardened general had been much criticized, though O'Neal was only a year older than Gavin at the time, according to the film's schedule. "Can I help if I photograph like I'm 16 years old and they gave me a helmet that was too big for my head?" Later, he said. "At least I did my own parachute hop." The film did not do well in the United States box office, but it did well in Europe.

O'Neal's Story (1978), a sequel to Love Story, turned down a reported $3 million to star. Rather, he appeared in The Driver (1978), directed by Walter Hill, who had written The Thief Who Came to Dinner. This was a box office setback in the United States, but A Bridge Too Far did better overseas. Hill later said he was "so happy with Ryan in the movie, and I was sad that no one gave him any credit for what he did. He's the best he's ever been to me. "I can't imagine another actor."

O'Neal had intended to continue this with The Champ (1979), directed by Franco Zeffirelli, but the actor dropped out after Zeffirelli refused to cast O'Neal's son Griffin opposite him. Rather, he decided to make Oliver's Story after all was rewritten. However, the film at the box office was a flop.

"I must do now, I have to win a few hearts as an actor," he said in 1978. "The way Cary Grant did." I know I've got a lot of winning to do. But I'm young enough. "I'll get there."

O'Neal was supposed to appear in The Bodyguard, from a Lawrence Kasdan script, opposite Diana Ross for director John Boorman at this time. However, the film was shot over when Ross departed, and it would not be released until 1992, with Kevin Costner in O'Neal's old role. There was some rumors that he would appear in a film by Michelangelo Antonioni, Suffer or Die, but this did not happen.

In the Main Event, O'Neal played a boxer, reuniting him with St. Vincent. A fee of $1 million plus a swath of the proceeds was paid. The Main Event at the Box Office was a huge success. He made The Contender, a 1979 film about a boxer he fought.

A 1980 profile of O'Neal described him:

O'Neal had intended to follow it as the lead in Arthur Hiller's film adaptation of The Thorn Birds, but it was eventually developed as a miniseries. Rather, O'Neal produced Green Ice (1981), the most money he's ever earned up front. The film had a difficult run (the original director resigned during filming) and it flopped at the box office, and the box office was flopped.

In Circle of Two, his daughter's film made with Richard Burton, he had a cameo. Burton told him during filming that he was "five years away from being accepted as a serious actor." On the other hand, my agent, Sue Mengers, says I'm right on the threshold. That's a big difference, since it's been two and a half years. "All I want is a good picture."

However, in the early 1980s, he concentrated on comedies. In So Fine, he received $2 million for his lead. Partners (1982), Francis Veber's farce in which O'Neal played a straight cop who goes undercover as one half of a gay couple, was followed by this. In Irconcilable Differences (1984), he appeared as a film director closely based on Peter Bogdanovich; he received no upfront payment but received a share of the profits. It was a modest box office success.

If it's his love affair with Farrah Fawcett, his precocious actor daughter Tatum or his son Griffin, it's "the Billy Martin of Hollywood," a 1984 story called him "the Billy Martin of Hollywood. He can't seem to be able to stay out of the news." O'Neal said he felt more like Rocky Marciano, "wondering why guys are always picking fights with me." They'll like me if I'm in a good photo. If I'm not, they'll hate me. Well, I'm mad too because I don't take good photos."

O'Neal said that too many of the roles he had performed were "off the beaten track for me." He regrets doing The Thief Who Came to Dinner, A Bridge Too Far, The Driver, So Fine, Partners, and Green Ice. He attributed this in large part to his inability to pay alimony and child care. Agent Sue Mengers was also encouraged to continue working.

"I could get a good director to select me for a picture," he said. "But they stopped calling me in the mid-70s." I made a slew of pictures that didn't sell and people lost interest in me... I'm lucky to be here in the first place, and they're aware of it. I'm a glamour girl, a Hollywood product. I have a television experience, and they will be able to point to the silly movies I've made."

In 1985, O'Neal tried something different, as the last film for director Richard Brooks was played in Los Angeles, a Los Angeles Herald Examiner sports writer and sports columnist who also gambles way too much. Director Norman Mailer's Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) was also less conventional. Both films failed at the box office and received poor feedback.

O'Neal appeared in a Liza Minnelli TV special Sam Discovered Out: A Triple Play (1988), as well as in the romantic comedy Chances Are (1989).

In Small Sacrifices (1989), he appeared on television opposite his then-partner Farrah Fawcett.

Good Sports (1991), a short-lived CBS series starring Fawcett and Tom Fawcett, ran for 15 episodes.

O'Neal co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in the TV film The Man Upstairs (1992) and appeared in Fawcett's Man of the House (1995).

He appeared in Faithful (1996) with Cher. It was directed by Paul Mazursky, who later said of O'Neal: O'Neal: a fabled tale.

O'Neal was involved in Hacks (1997) and was a participant in An Alan Smithee Film: Burning Hollywood Burn (1998). He was the third leader in Zero Effect (1999) and was top billed in The List (2000).

O'Neal played a semi-recurring role in Bull (2001) and Epoch's support staff (2001), People I Know (2001), Gentleman B. Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) and (2002).

O'Neal appeared on the television show Miss Match (2003) starring Alicia Silverstone, which lasted for 18 episodes. He appeared on shows such as Desperate Housewives and 90210. He was a regular character on Fox's Bones.

Since 25 years, Ryan and Tatum attempted to resurrect their broken father-daughter relationship. In the Oprah Winfrey Network series Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals, which O'Neal produced, they were captured on their reunion and reconciliation process. It was only nine episodes.

In Slumber Party Slaughter (2015) and Knight of Cups (2015) in a small role, O'Neal was seen.

In 2016, O'Neal reunited with Love Story co-star Ali MacGraw in a revival of A.R. Love Letters by Gurney.

O'Neal and MacGraw were honoured on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in February 2021, nearly 50 years since Love Story was first published.

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