Actor Ryan O’Neal, star of ‘Love Story’ and ‘Paper Moon,’ lifeless at age 82

 Actor Ryan O’Neal, the Seventies Hollywood heartthrob who starred in such movies because the smash-hit tearjerker “Love Story,” and comedies like “What’s Up, Doc?” and “Paper Moon” died on Friday at age 82.

His son, Patrick O’Neal, introduced the performer’s dying in an Instagram put up. No reason for dying was given.

O’Neal, additionally recognized for his long-time relationship with the late actress Farrah Fawcett, revealed in 2012 that he had been recognized with prostate most cancers, although he mentioned then that he was anticipated to make a full restoration.

O’Neal, a Los Angeles native, educated as an newbie boxer earlier than appearing and made his showbiz breakthrough in 1964 when he landed the function of Rodney Harrington within the hit ABC prime-time tv cleaning soap opera “Peyton Place.”

The actor is maybe greatest recognized for his Oscar-nominated star flip reverse Ali MacGraw within the 1970 romantic drama “Love Story,” a field workplace sensation tailored from Erich Segal’s well-known novel of the identical title.

A key line of dialogue from the movie grew to become one among Hollywood’s most memorable catchphrases: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” It spawned a poorly obtained 1978 sequel, “Oliver’s Story,” co-starring O’Neal and Candice Bergen.

Ryan additionally scored a significant success within the 1972 romantic comedy “What’s Up, Doc?” co-starring Barbra Streisand and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, who additionally directed O’Neal within the 1973 hit “Paper Moon,” which co-starred the actor’s then-young daughter and launched his daughter’s film profession.

Her debut function within the Depression-era drama as a precocious, cigarette-smoking orphan earned Tatum O’Neal an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on the age of 10.

She appeared together with her father once more within the 1976 Bogdanovich comedy “Nickelodeon,” together with Burt Reynolds.

Tatum O’Neal and her youthful brother Griffin ended up residing with their father after their mother and father divorced in 1967, and their mom, the actor’s first spouse, Joanna Moore, misplaced custody as a consequence of alcohol and drug abuse.

‘HOPELESS FATHER’

But Tatum O’Neal claimed in a 2004 memoir, “A Paper Life,” that she suffered years of parental abuse and suits of jealousy from her father and that he launched her to medication as a teen, resulting in an estrangement of practically 25 years.

According to Tatum O’Neal, she and her brother have been left to take care of themselves when her father moved in with Fawcett, the “Charlie’s Angels” tv star.

In February 2007, the elder O’Neal, then in his 60s, was arrested after a battle along with his son Griffin that led to gunfire. Prosecutors later determined to not file prices.

Although he acknowledged in a 2009 Vanity Fair journal interview, “I’m a hopeless father,” O’Neal disputed his daughter’s claims of abuse and neglect. The two finally reconciled and appeared collectively in a biographical docuseries in 2011 referred to as “Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals.”

Patrick O’Neal, who introduced his father’s dying, was the actor’s third little one, born to his second spouse, Leigh Taylor-Young.

The actor’s fourth little one, a son named Redmond from his relationship with Fawcett, additionally struggled with substance abuse and was arrested on a number of events in 2008 and 2009 for drug offences, resulting in jail time.

Still, O’Neal’s relationship with Fawcett proved to be his most enduring. They have been collectively from 1979 till 1997. Then, after a break-up of a number of years, they reunited in 2001 till she died in 2009, following a protracted battle with most cancers.

O’Neal’s movie profession cooled after the mid-Seventies. He starred in Stanley Kubrick’s historic drama “Barry Lyndon,” a film that took greater than a 12 months to make earlier than opening in 1975 to blended critiques and a mediocre field workplace.

Near the top of his profession, O’Neal had a recurring function from 2005 to 2017 on Fox tv’s police procedural sequence “Bones,” taking part in the daddy of the present’s title character, a forensic anthropologist portrayed by Emily Deschanel.