- Known for
- Acting
- Credits
- 50 films
- Born
- April 20, 1941
- Died
- December 8, 2023 (aged 82)
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Acting
Ryan O'Neal
Also known as Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal
Biography
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.
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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).
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
Acting 50
- 2024Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze · Self (archive footage)
- 2019My Best Friend's Famous · Himself
- 2019This Is Farrah Fawcett · Self (archive footage)
- 2018Filmworker · Self
- 2015Knight of Cups · Ryan
- 2015Unity · Narrator (voice)
- 2014Kubrick Remembered · Self
- 2012Slumber Party Slaughter
