Ryan O’Neal: a life in pictures
Hollywood actor Ryan O’Neal, who starred in Peyton Place, Love Story, What’s Up, Doc? and Barry Lyndon, has died at the age of 82. We look back at his career
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A publicity portrait of the young Ryan O’Neal in 1961
Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy
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O’Neal with Mia Farrow in 1964 in the soap opera Peyton Place, which was to catapult both of them to stardom
Photograph: ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images
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O’Neal at home with his first wife, Joanna Moore, and their first child, Tatum O’Neal, in 1964
Photograph: Walt Disney Television Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images
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O’Neal with Leigh Taylor-Young, his second wife, in a poster for 1969’s The Big Bounce
Photograph: LMPC/Getty Images
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O’Neal with Ali MacGraw in 1970 in a promotional portrait for Love Story
Photograph: Paramount Pictures/Getty Images
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O’Neal as young cowboy Frank Post in Blake Edwards’ 1971 western, Wild Rovers
Photograph: Album/Alamy
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O’Neal playing Dr Howard Bannister opposite Barbra Streisand in Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 neo-screwball comedy, What’s Up, Doc?
Photograph: United Archives/FilmPublicityArchive/Getty Images
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O’Neal with his daughter Tatum in Malibu during an interview with Women’s Wear Daily in 1973
Photograph: Fairchild Archive/Penske Media/Getty Images
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O’Neal and Tatum acting together in Bogdanovich’s 1973 Depression-set road movie, Paper Moon
Photograph: Columbia Pictures/Getty Images
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O’Neal as the 18th-century social-climbing protagonist of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975)
Photograph: Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock
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O’Neal (second right) with Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery and Gene Hackman in Richard Attenborough’s 1977 war epic, A Bridge Too Far
Photograph: United Archives/FilmPublicityArchive/Getty Images
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O’Neal as the car-stealing protagonist of Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978)
Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Studiocanal/Allstar
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O’Neal reteamed with Barbra Streisand in the 1979 sports romcom The Main Event
Photograph: Moviestore/Shutterstock
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O’Neal with his then partner Farrah Fawcett and his children Griffin and Tatum O’Neal backstage at a Rolling Stones concert circa 1980
Photograph: Brad Elterman/BuzzFoto/FilmMagic
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O’Neal as the star of the 1981 British adventure film Green Ice
Photograph: ITV/Shutterstock
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O’Neal with Shelley Long in Irreconcilable Differences (1984), in which he played a Bogdanovich-like film director
Photograph: Glasshouse Images/Alamy
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O’Neal in a supporting role in the 1989 romcom Chances Are
Photograph: colaimages/Alamy
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O’Neal sends a succinct message to the paparazzi, circa 1990
Photograph: Kypros/Getty Images
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O’Neal as Portland millionaire Gregory Stark in Jake Kasdan’s 1998 comedy mystery Zero Effect
Photograph: Columbia/Castle Rock/Kobal/Shutterstock
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O’Neal guest-starring in a 2005 episode of Desperate Housewives as Felicity Huffman’s character’s father-in-law
Photograph: Danny Feld/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images
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A mugshot of O’Neal after his arrest for drug possession in 2008. Charges were never filed for the incident, but it was one of several run-ins with the law
Photograph: Getty Images
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O’Neal with Al Pacino and Richard Schiff in the 2002 crime drama People I Know
Photograph: Moviestore/Shutterstock
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O’Neal during celebrations for the 200th episode of the Fox TV programme Bones, 2014
Photograph: JB Lacroix/WireImage
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Ryan O’Neal, 1941-2023
Photograph: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy
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