Actor Ryan O’Neal dies at 82

Goodbye to another cinema legend. The actor Ryan O’Neal, protagonist of Love Story, He has died at the age of 82. The person in charge of spreading the sad news was his son Patrick, who expressed his pain at such a sad loss. “My dad passed away peacefully today, surrounded by his loving team supporting and loving him as he would love us. This is very difficult for my wife Summer and I, but I will share some feelings to give you an idea of ​​what a great man he is,” wrote. “My father Ryan O’Neal has always been my hero. She admired him and he was always larger than life… He’s a Hollywood legend“was his emotional farewell letter.

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Su is Tatum, with which had disagreements in the past but with whom he came to reconcile, he has expressed his immense sadness after the death of the legendary performer. “I feel great sadness for the death of my father,” she says in a statement published in the magazine People. “He meant a lot to me. He loved him very much and I know he loved me too.. I will always miss him and I feel very lucky that we ended on such good terms.“.

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Three years ago the O’Neal family buried the hatchet after many years of disagreements. Sean McEnroe, the grandson of Ryan O’Nealwas in charge of making the reconciliation known through a family reunion photo. In the image, the actor appeared with his daughter Tatum O’Neal and his grandchildren, Kevin and Emily, and in legend revealed that it was the first time the family had reunited in the last 17 years.

Last April father and daughter celebrated their 82nd birthday together with a moving photo in which she appeared sitting next to her father. Let us remember that together they starred paper moon in 1973, which turned Tatum is the youngest person to win an Oscar at just 10 years old.

Although the cause of his death has not been released, Ryan O’Neal battled a host of ailments and illnesses throughout his life.. She had suffered from chronic leukemia since 2001 and in 2012 she was diagnosed with prostate cancer. in addition to suffering from diabetes, heart problems and having suffered from sepsis. All this, added to the suffering that caused losing the love of his life, actress Farrah Fawcettin 2009, contributed to his health being seriously impaired.

Father of four children

Ryan O’Neal got married several times and had a long love story cwith actress Farrah Fawcett, the star of Charlie’s Angels. He married for the first time Joanna Moore in 1963 and They had two sons, Tatum and Griffin O’Neal, although their union lasted only three years. His second wife was Leigh Taylor-Young, with whom she had a son, Patrick O’Neal, the one in charge of announcing his death. Following her divorce, she had a long relationship. with the actress Farrah Fawcettwho became the great love of his life and with whom he had a son, Redmond O’Neal, in 1985. Despite being a relationship of comings and goings The couple did not separate until the actress’ death in 2009.

Ryan O’Neal asked Farrah Fawcett to marry him

His career in Hollywood

His popularity began thanks to the role of Rodney Harrington in the series Peyton Place in the sixties along with Mia Farrow, but true fame was achieved with the tape Love Story, along with Ali MacGraw, and which earned him his first and only Oscar nomination in 1971. This melodrama has gone down in history as the most romantic and unforgettable is the phrase from this cult film: “Love means never having to say sorry”. This great film was followed by titles such as What’s wrong with me, doctor? alongside Barbra Streisand, paper moon, where she worked with her daughter Tatum O’Neal, who won the Oscar for best supporting actress, Barry Lyndon, by Stanley Kubrick, A distant bridge de Richard Attenborough, o Driver, from Walter Hill.