Actor revealed in 2012 that he had been recognized with prostate most cancers.
Ryan O’Neal, the Oscar-nominated star of the 1970 romantic drama, Love Story, has died on the age of 82, his son has mentioned.
Patrick O’Neal mentioned in a publish on Instagram on Friday that his father had handed away peacefully.
“That is the hardest factor I’ve ever needed to say however right here we go. My dad handed away peacefully as we speak, together with his loving crew by his aspect supporting him and loving him as he would us,” O’Neal mentioned, including that his father “has at all times been my hero”.
No reason for dying was given. O’Neal mentioned in 2012 that he had been recognized with prostate most cancers, however the prognosis was good.
O’Neal, an beginner boxer-turned-actor, broke into the entrainment enterprise in 1964 when he bagged a task within the prime-time tv cleaning soap opera Peyton Place.
In the course of the Nineteen Seventies, O’Neal grew to become referred to as one in every of Hollywood’s main heartthrobs, starring in movies together with What’s Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, and Barry Lyndon.
O’Neal’s most celebrated flip got here within the 1970 romantic drama, Love Story, reverse Ali MacGraw, for which he obtained an Oscar nomination for Finest Actor.
O’Neal, who was twice divorced, was additionally recognized for his decades-long tumultuous romance with late actress Farrah Fawcett.
The couple break up in 1997 however reunited just a few years later, and he was at Fawcett’s aspect throughout her battle with most cancers.
O’Neal fathered actors Griffin O’Neal and Tatum O’Neal together with his first spouse, Joanna Moore, and had son Patrick together with his second spouse, Leigh Taylor-Younger.