Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal was born on April 20,1941 and is an American actor and former boxer.
53 Facts About Ryan O'Neal
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Ryan O'Neal trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960.
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Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest son of actress Patricia Ruth Olga and novelist and screenwriter Charles O'Neal.
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Ryan O'Neal's father was of Irish and English descent, while his mother was of paternal Irish and maternal Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
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In Germany, Ryan O'Neal was struggling at school so his mother pulled some favors and got him a job as a stand-in on a show being shot in the area, Tales of the Vikings.
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Ryan O'Neal worked on it as an extra and stuntman and became interested in acting.
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Ryan O'Neal returned to the US and tried to make it as an actor.
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Ryan O'Neal made his first TV appearance guest starring on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episode "The Hunger Strike" in 1960.
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Ryan O'Neal followed this with guest slots on The Untouchables, General Electric Theater, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Laramie, Two Faces West, Westinghouse Playhouse, Bachelor Father, My Three Sons, Leave It To Beaver episode "Wally Goes Steady" in 1961 and The Virginian.
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Ryan O'Neal was under contract to Universal but they let it lapse.
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From 1962 to 1963, Ryan O'Neal was a regular on NBC's Empire, another modern-day western, where he played "Tal Garrett" in support of Richard Egan.
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In 1963, the series was revived as Redigo but Ryan O'Neal turned down the chance to reprise his role.
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Ryan O'Neal said he got the role because "the studio was looking for a young Doug McClure".
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Several were offered movie roles, including Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby, and Barbara Parkins, Valley of the Dolls, and Ryan O'Neal was keen to do films.
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Ryan O'Neal was signed to ABC for a recording contract.
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Ryan O'Neal's fee was $25,000; he said he had an offer that paid five times as much to appear in a Jerry Lewis film but O'Neal knew that Love Story was the better prospect and selected that instead.
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In between the film's production and release, Ryan O'Neal appeared in a TV movie written by Eric Ambler, Love Hate Love, which received good ratings.
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Ryan O'Neal made a Western, Wild Rovers with William Holden for director Blake Edwards.
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Ryan O'Neal was going to make another film for MGM, Deadly Honeymoon, from a novel by Larry Block.
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Director Nic Roeg wanted Ryan O'Neal to appear opposite Julie Christie in an adaptation of Out of Africa that was never made.
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Tatum won an Oscar for her performance in the popular movie and in 1973, Ryan O'Neal was voted by exhibitors as the second-most-popular star in the country, behind Clint Eastwood.
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Ryan O'Neal spent over a year making Barry Lyndon for Kubrick.
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The film's reputation has risen in recent years but Ryan O'Neal says his career never recovered from the film's reception.
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Ryan O'Neal had been originally meant to star in Bogdanovich's flop musical At Long Last Love but was replaced by Burt Reynolds.
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Ryan O'Neal followed this with a small role in the all-star war film A Bridge Too Far, playing General James Gavin.
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Ryan O'Neal was meant to follow this with The Champ, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, but decided to pull out after Zeffirelli refused to cast Ryan O'Neal's son Griffin opposite him.
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Around this time, Ryan O'Neal was meant to star in The Bodyguard, from a Lawrence Kasdan script, opposite Diana Ross for director John Boorman.
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Ryan O'Neal instead played a boxer in a comedy, The Main Event, reuniting him with Streisand.
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Ryan O'Neal was looking to follow it as the lead in the film version of The Thorn Birds to be directed by Arthur Hiller, but the book ended up being adapted as a miniseries.
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Ryan O'Neal had a cameo in Circle of Two, a film his daughter made with Richard Burton.
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Ryan O'Neal then played a film director loosely based on Peter Bogdanovich in Irreconcilable Differences ; he received no upfront fee but got a percentage of the profits.
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Ryan O'Neal said too many of the roles he had played were "off the beaten path for me".
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Ryan O'Neal blamed this in part on having to pay alimony and child support.
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Ryan O'Neal said agent Sue Mengers encouraged him to constantly work.
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Ryan O'Neal had a support part in a Liza Minnelli TV special Sam Found Out: A Triple Play, and supported in the romantic comedy Chances Are.
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Ryan O'Neal returned to TV opposite his then-partner Farrah Fawcett in Small Sacrifices.
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Ryan O'Neal co starred with Katharine Hepburn in the TV movie The Man Upstairs and had a cameo in Fawcett's Man of the House.
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Ryan O'Neal had a good role in Faithful with Cher.
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Ryan O'Neal had a support part in Hacks and the lead in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn.
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Ryan O'Neal had the third lead in Zero Effect and was top billed in The List.
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Ryan O'Neal had a regular part on the TV series Miss Match with Alicia Silverstone which ran for 18 episodes.
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Ryan O'Neal guest starred on shows such as Desperate Housewives and 90210.
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Ryan O'Neal was a recurring character on Fox's Bones.
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Ryan O'Neal could be seen in Slumber Party Slaughter and Knight of Cups in a small role.
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Ryan O'Neal said that in 2009 he "made a tremendous amount of money on real estate".
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Ryan O'Neal married his first wife, actress Joanna Moore, in 1963.
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Ryan O'Neal was in a relationship with actress Farrah Fawcett from 1979 to 1997.
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For several years, Ryan O'Neal was estranged from his elder three children.
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Ryan O'Neal gets so mad he can't control anything he's doing.
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In 2007, Ryan O'Neal was arrested for shooting at Griffin, which he claimed was in self-defense; charges were dropped.
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Ryan O'Neal refused to allow Griffin to attend Fawcett's funeral in 2009.
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Ryan O'Neal infamously hit on Tatum at Fawcett's funeral, not recognizing her as his daughter.
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In 2001, Ryan O'Neal was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia.