{"id":69494,"date":"2023-12-09T03:16:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T03:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotcelebon.com\/?p=69494"},"modified":"2023-12-09T03:16:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T03:16:26","slug":"hollywood-pays-tribute-to-love-story-star-ryan-oneal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotcelebon.com\/celebrities\/hollywood-pays-tribute-to-love-story-star-ryan-oneal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood pays tribute to Love Story star Ryan ONeal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Love Story star and Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O’Neal has died aged 82.<\/p>\n
Writing on Instagram, his son Patrick said he died “peacefully” surrounded by his “loving team” on Friday. Announcing the news, he said his dad had “always been my hero”.<\/p>\n
He said: “He is a Hollywood legend. Full stop<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a human being, my father was as generous as they come. And the funniest person in any room. And the most handsome clearly, but also the most charming. Lethal combo.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe loved to make people laugh. It\u2019s pretty much his goal. Didn\u2019t matter the situation, if there was a joke to be found, he nailed it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe really wanted us laughing. And we did all laugh. Every time. We had fun. Fun in the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said his father \u201cjust loved acting, plain and simple\u201d and was adept at memorising pages of dialogue in an hour, but was also the \u201cbest and most loving and supportive dad\u201d.<\/p>\n
Patrick added: \u201cThis is and will be a huge void in our lives.”<\/p>\n
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Patrick also spoke about his father\u2019s on-off relationship with Charlie\u2019s Angels star Farrah Fawcett, who died in 2009 at the age of 62 from cancer.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cRyan never bragged. But he has bragging rights in Heaven. Especially when it comes to Farrah. Everyone had the poster, he had the real McCoy. And now they meet again.<\/p>\n
\u201cFarrah and Ryan. He has missed her terribly. What an embrace that must be. Together again.\u201d<\/p>\n
US actor O’Neal starred in drama Peyton Place before rising to international stardom after his Oscar-nominated role as Oliver in the 1971 film Love Story, opposite Ali MacGraw.<\/p>\n
He later starred in What\u2019s Up, Doc? in 1972 with Barbra Streisand and they met again on-screen seven years later in The Main Event. On X, formerly known as Twitter, two-time Academy Award winner Streisand said: \u201cSo sad to hear the news of Ryan O\u2019Neal\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made two films together, What\u2019s Up, Doc? and The Main Event. He was funny and charming, and he will be remembered.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neal was described as Hollywood\u2019s \u201cleading boy\u201d following more than 500 episodes playing Rodney Harrington on hit drama Peyton Place, alongside Lee Grant \u2013 who played Stella Chernak. On X, Grant said: \u201cImpossible to believe that Ryan O\u2019Neal is gone. I felt so welcomed by his Peyton Place, the first big production brave enough to welcome me back from the blacklist.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn incredible talent, an incredible beauty. A gift of an artist we\u2019re lucky to have so much of captured forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
During his career, O\u2019Neal collaborated with director Peter Bogdanovich several times, including on Paper Moon opposite his daughter Tatum, who won an Academy Award at the age of 10 for her performance, What\u2019s Up, Doc? and Nickelodeon in 1976.<\/p>\n
His other notable credits include starring as Barry Lyndon in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s 1975 film. The official X page for Kubrick said: \u201cWe are deeply saddened to hear that the Oscar nominated, 60-year acting veteran, Ryan O\u2019Neal has passed away.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo us he will always be remembered as the loveable cad Barry Lyndon.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf his experience working with Stanley, Ryan said \u2018it was magnificent, you never really get over an experience like that, working with someone like him\u2019.<\/p>\n
US actors\u2019 union Sag-Aftra also said it was \u201csaddened\u201d to hear of the death of \u201crevered performer\u201d O\u2019Neal \u2013 who had been a union member since 1959.<\/p>\n