died Dec. 8 of congestive heart failure.
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Ryan O’Neal, the Oscar-nominated star of movies such as Love Story and The Main Event, has sadly passed away at the age of 82.
The beloved actor’s son Patrick broke the news with a post on social media and shared a heartfelt tribute to the man who he described as both “a Hollywood legend” and his own personal hero.
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“So this is the toughest thing I’ve ever had to say but here we go. My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us,” he wrote on Instagram. “This is very difficult for my wife Summer and I, but I will share some feelings to give you an idea of how great a man he is.”
Patrick continued, looking back on his dad’s iconic career.
“My father Ryan O’Neal has always been my hero. I looked up to him and he was always bigger than life. When I was born in 1967 my dad was already a TV star on Peyton Place. That’s where he met my mom Leigh Taylor-Young, and about 9 months later (give or take a date night or two) I was born. My dad became an international movie star with Love Story at the beginning of the 1970’s, a decade he absolutely crushed by starring in movies like What’s Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, Barry Lyndon, A Bridge Too Far, The Main Event, and The Driver,” he wrote. “He is a Hollywood legend. Full stop.”
Patrick credited his dad for “the growth spurt of the first name Ryan” and added that his dad’s successful movie Love Story “saved Paramount Studios.” The role also earned him his Star on the Walk of Fame.
Ryan received his Star in 2021. It is located right next to the one belonging to his late love Farrah Fawcett.
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died Dec. 8 of congestive heart failure.
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longtime love Farrah Fawcett at the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles — two weeks after his death at the age of 82 from congestive heart failure. According to the Daily Mail, the Oscar nominee’s intimate funeral drew about 25 people, including ex-wife Leigh Taylor-Young, whom he was married from 1967-74; their son Patrick O’Neal, 56; and Fawcett’s best friend, Alana Stewart, 78.Fawcett — who died of cancer in 2009 at the age of 62 — began her tumultuous on-and-off-again love affair with O’Neal in 1979 after being introduced by her then-husband, Lee Majors.
Love Story actor Ryan O’Neal was buried Saturday next to his longtime lover Farrah Fawcett.
“Love Story” actor Ryan O’Neal died of “congestive heart failure,” according to his death certificate. The underlying cause was cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle. No other cause was listed.
cause of death has been revealed.According to his death certificate, obtained by The Blast, the prolific, Oscar-nominated actor for his role in 1970’s “Love Story” and two-time Golden Globe nominee, died of “congestive heart failure” after suffering from “cardiomyopathy” for years. He was 82 when he died on Dec. 8.
Ryan O’Neal passed away earlier this month at the age of 82 and now his cause of death has been revealed.
“Why is this like a dark secret? It’s just a movie.”
died on Dec. 8 at the age of 82.Co-star Ali MacGraw released a statement on Saturday regarding his death.
Ali MacGraw has issued a statement on the death of her co-star in Love Story, Ryan O’Neal, who died yesterday at 82.
Love Story and Paper Moon in the 1970s, has died at 82.On Friday (December 8), O’Neal’s son Patrick confirmed the news in a series of Instagram posts, sharing that his father died “with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us”.Patrick O’Neal described his father as “my hero”, adding, “I looked up to him and he was always bigger than life”.O’Neal, who is considered one of the stars of the New Hollywood era of the late ‘60s and ‘70s, first rose to prominence on the US soap opera Peyton Place, playing the character of Rodney Harrigton between 1964 and 1969.He soon moved into film acting, starring in the romantic drama Love Story in 1970 opposite Ali MacGraw, for which he was nominated for his only Academy Award for Best Actor.Some of his most acclaimed work came alongside director Peter Bogdanovich, in the 1972 comedy What’s Up, Doc? and 1973 road movie Paper Moon, in which he starred with his real life daughter Tatum O’Neal, who became the youngest ever Oscar winner for the film, winning Best Supporting Actress.Ryan O’Neal went on to star in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975), Richard Attenborough’s A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978).O’Neal received a diagnosis of chronic leukaemia in 2001 and later of prostate cancer in 2012.He had marriages to the actresses Joanna Moore and Peyton Place co-star Leigh Taylor-Young, before starting a long-term relationship with Farrah Fawcett until her death in 2009.In addition to Tatum and Patrick, O’Neal had two more children, Griffin and Redmond.
O’Neal passed away on December 8 at the age of 82.His son, 56-year-old actor Patrick O’Neal, confirmed the news on his Instagram account Friday.“My dad passed away peacefully today,” he wrote. “As a human being, my father was as generous as they come. And the funniest person in any room.
Instagram photo of the young duo working together on Friday.“We made two films together, ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ and ‘The Main Event.’ He was funny and charming, and he will be remembered.”O’Neal “passed away peacefully” on Friday, his son, Patrick, announced. In her recently-released memoir “My Name Is Barbra,” Streisand claimed she and the “Love Story” star first met at a dinner party in 1970, writing the actor, “fancied me and asked for my number.”“We started seeing each other, and it was kind of a new dynamic for me . .
his death on Friday. “I feel great sorrow with my father’s passing,” Tatum told People. “He meant the world to me.
Tatum O’Neal is breaking her silence in the wake of her dad Ryan O’Neal‘s death.
Ryan O’Neal, who died today at 82, is being remembered by his co-stars today.
Ryan O'Neal, the Hollywood actor and longtime partner of Farrah Fawcett, has sadly passed away at the age of 82. His cause of death is currently unknown, reports the Mirror.
“passed away peacefully” on Friday, had a troubled relationship with his four children: Tatum, 60, Griffin, 59, Patrick, 56, and Redmond, 38, as well as his famous ex-partner and Redmond’s mother, Farrah Fawcett.But this year on April 20, both Tatum and Patrick posted Instagram tributes to their dad on his special day. “Honor and a privilege to share time with my dad on his 82nd birthday. 4/20 whoop whoop!!” Patrick captioned a black-and-white photo of the pair smiling.
"Love Story" and "Peyton Place" star Ryan O'Neal has died, according to the Associated Press. "So this is the toughest thing I’ve ever had to say but here we go. My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us," Ryan's son Patrick posted on social media.
according to TMZ, “So this is the toughest thing I’ve ever had to say but here we go. My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us.”The news comes after a source told RadarOnline.com in February that O’Neal was desperate to reconnect with his incarcerated son, Redmond, whom he shared with Fawcett, who died in 2009.