Ryan O'Neal
Born: 1941-04-20 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: 2023-12-08
Known For: Acting
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. 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.
Filmography
2019
- This Is Farrah Fawcett as Self (archive footage)
- My Best Friend's Famous as Himself
2018
- Filmworker as Self
2015
- Unity as Narrator (voice)
- Knight of Cups as Ryan
2014
- Kubrick Remembered as Self
2012
- Slumber Party Slaughter as William O'Toole
2009
- NCIS: Los Angeles
- Farrah's Story as Self
2005
- Bones as Max Keenan
2004
- Desperate Housewives as Rodney Scavo
2003
- Miss Match as Jerry Fox
- Malibu's Most Wanted as Bill Gluckman
- Gentleman B. as Phil, Bank Manager
2002
- People I Know as Cary Launer
2001
- Epoch as Allen Lysander
1999
- Coming Soon as Dick
1998
- An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn as James Edmunds
- Zero Effect as Gregory Stark
1997
- Timecop
- Sink Or Swim as Dr. Applefield
- Playboy: Farrah Fawcett, All of Me as Self (archive footage)
1996
- Faithful as Jack Connor
- E! True Hollywood Story
1995
- Man of the House as Man with Kite (uncredited)
1992
- The Man Upstairs as Mooney Polaski
1991
- Good Sports as Bobby Tannen
1989
- Small Sacrifices as Lew Lewiston
- Chances Are as Philip Train
- Small Sacrifices as Lew Lewiston
1988
- Sam Found Out: A Triple Play as Pimp
1987
- Tough Guys Don't Dance as Tim Madden
- Beauty and the Beast
1985
- Fever Pitch as Taggart
1984
- Irreconcilable Differences as Albert Brodsky
1983
- James Bond: The First 21 Years as Self
1982
- Partners as Sgt. Benson
1981
- So Fine as Bobby Fine
- Green Ice as Joseph Wiley
- Circle of Two as Theatre Patron (uncredited)
1979
- The Main Event as Eddie "Kid Natural" Scanlon
1978
- The Driver as The Driver
- Oliver's Story as Oliver Barrett IV
1977
- A Bridge Too Far as Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
1976
- Nickelodeon as Leo Harrigan
1975
- Barry Lyndon as Barry Lyndon
1973
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Webster McGee
- Paper Moon as Moses Pray
1972
- What's Up, Doc? as Howard Bannister
- Screwball Comedies... Remember Them? as Self
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Wild Rovers as Frank Post
- Love Hate Love as Russ Emery
- Mean Justice as Tal Garrett
1970
- Love Story as Oliver Barrett IV
- The Games as Scott Reynolds
1969
- The Big Bounce as Jack Ryan
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1966
1964
- Peyton Place as Rodney Harrington
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as Ben Anders
- Empire as Tal Garrett
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960
- My Three Sons as Chug Williams
1959
- The Untouchables as Bellhop (uncredited)
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Herm
1957
- Perry Mason as John Carew
- Wagon Train as Paul Phillips
- Leave It to Beaver as Tom Henderson
- Bachelor Father
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- General Electric Theater as Art Anderson