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04-20-2018, 08:33 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2018/04/20/april-20-happy-birthday-ryan-oneal-and-andy-serkis/
Ryan O’Neal is celebrating his 77th birthday today. Like some other recent headliners, he is from a prominent entertainment industry family; his father, Charles O’Neal, was a screenwriter in the forties and fifties with credits on a number of genre films, while three of his children (his Oscar-winning daughter Tatum and her brothers Griffin and Patrick) have had acting careers as well. Ryan O’Neal was an amateur boxer in the fifties as a teenager, and began working in television at the start of the sixties. In 1964, he was cast in the regular role of Rodney Harrington on ABC’s prime time soap opera, Peyton Place, remaining on the show for five seasons. He made his feature film debut in the 1969 adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s The Big Bounce, and then was an Oscar nominee for starring as Oliver Barrett IV in Love Story. In 1972 he starred in Peter Bogdanovich’s screwball comedy homage, What’s Up, Doc?
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O’Neal remained a major star for the rest of the 1970s. He reunited with Bogdanovich, and co-starred with his daughter Tatum, in Paper Moon (Tatum won her Oscar as Addie Loggins, while Dad was a Golden Globe nominee). He starred as the title character in Stanley Kubrick’s historical epic, Barry Lyndon, and played Gen. James Gavin in A Bridge Too Far. In 1978 he played the unnamed title character in Walter Hill’s The Driver and returned to the role of Oliver Barrett in Oliver’s Story; he then drew on his boxing experience to star in 1979’s The Main Event. In the 1980s and after, his stardom faded; he still got lead roles for a while, but not in successful films, and he became a periodic Razzie target. In recent years, television audiences might remember him for the recurring role of Max Brennan on Bones.
Ryan O’Neal is celebrating his 77th birthday today. Like some other recent headliners, he is from a prominent entertainment industry family; his father, Charles O’Neal, was a screenwriter in the forties and fifties with credits on a number of genre films, while three of his children (his Oscar-winning daughter Tatum and her brothers Griffin and Patrick) have had acting careers as well. Ryan O’Neal was an amateur boxer in the fifties as a teenager, and began working in television at the start of the sixties. In 1964, he was cast in the regular role of Rodney Harrington on ABC’s prime time soap opera, Peyton Place, remaining on the show for five seasons. He made his feature film debut in the 1969 adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s The Big Bounce, and then was an Oscar nominee for starring as Oliver Barrett IV in Love Story. In 1972 he starred in Peter Bogdanovich’s screwball comedy homage, What’s Up, Doc?
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O’Neal remained a major star for the rest of the 1970s. He reunited with Bogdanovich, and co-starred with his daughter Tatum, in Paper Moon (Tatum won her Oscar as Addie Loggins, while Dad was a Golden Globe nominee). He starred as the title character in Stanley Kubrick’s historical epic, Barry Lyndon, and played Gen. James Gavin in A Bridge Too Far. In 1978 he played the unnamed title character in Walter Hill’s The Driver and returned to the role of Oliver Barrett in Oliver’s Story; he then drew on his boxing experience to star in 1979’s The Main Event. In the 1980s and after, his stardom faded; he still got lead roles for a while, but not in successful films, and he became a periodic Razzie target. In recent years, television audiences might remember him for the recurring role of Max Brennan on Bones.