2023-12-09 00:21:17
Actor Ryan O’Neal (Los Angeles, California, 1941), protagonist of the iconic film ‘Love Story’, died this Friday at the age of 82, as confirmed by his son Patrick O’Neal on his Instagram account.
“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to say, but here we go. “My father passed away today in peace, with his beloved team at his side supporting him and loving him as he would love us,” the actor’s son wrote in a text accompanied by a photo of a sunset on the beach. . “This is very difficult for my wife Summer and me, but I will share some feelings to give you an idea of what a great man he is.”
Patric O’Neal assures in the publication that his father has always been his “hero”: “I admired him and he was always larger than life. When I was born in 1967, my father was already a TV star on Peyton Place. There he met my mother, Leigh Taylor-Young, and about 9 months later (more or less) I was born,” he says.
“He is a Hollywood legend. Full stop,” she stated. “The growth of the name Ryan can be traced back to my father. It is a fact. He was Rodney Harrington on Peyton Place 3 days a week (he starred in 500 series in 5 years) and then of course the name Ryan peaked after Love Story (the movie that saved Paramount studios and earned me father a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame).
O’Neal, also the father of Oscar-winning actress Tatum O’Neal, also appeared in titles such as ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ and he became one of the most famous performers of the seventies, working with figures such as Barbra Streisand and working under the orders of filmmakers of the stature of Stanley Kubrick and Peter Bogdanovich.
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