“Love Story” made Ryan O’Neal and fellow actress Ali MacGraw famous in 1970. Now Hollywood stars are mourning the actor. O’Neal died at 82.
Mourning in Hollywood after the death of “Love Story” star Ryan O’Neal: Colleagues such as Ali MacGraw, Barbra Streisand, Mia Farrow and William Shatner paid tribute to the US actor (“Paper Moon”, “Barry Lyndon”) Weekend tribute. His father died “peacefully,” son Patrick O’Neal (56) announced on Instagram on Friday (local time). O’Neal was 82 years old.
The actor’s daughter, Tatum O’Neal (60), told People magazine that she felt great sadness. “I loved him very much and I know he loved me too,” the actress (“Paper Moon”) wrote in the statement.
Ryan O’Neal: Famous overnight for “Love Story”
O’Neal and his film partner Ali MacGraw became famous overnight in 1970 with “Love Story”. MacGraw (84), who played cancer-stricken student Jenny in the melodrama, described their collaboration as “one of the great experiences of my film career.” “He was a talented actor, charming and also funny,” she wrote in a message to the film portal “Deadline” on Saturday.
MacGraw also looked back on their US tour together with the play “Love Letters” (2015). “I’ll miss him and the fun we had.” In 2021, MacGraw and O’Neal were immortalized with star plaques on the Walk of Fame.
Barbra Streisand (81), who starred in the films “Is What, Doc?” with O’Neal? and “The Main Event” paid tribute on Friday. The news of his death was “so sad,” the star wrote on Instagram about a shared photo. “He was funny and charming and he will be remembered.”
Mia Farrow mourns on Instagram: “It was so confident and very, very funny”
“Rest in peace, dear Ryan,” actress Mia Farrow (78) posted on Instagram about several shared set photos. In the 1960s they filmed the US television series “Peyton Place”. At the age of 18, she was very shy and secretly admired him. “He was so confident and very, very funny!” Farrow reflected.
Ryan O’Neal spoke about having prostate cancer in 2012. He had already been diagnosed with leukemia in 2001. His long-time partner Farrah Fawcett (“Charlie’s Angels”) died of cancer in 2009.
The father of four had three children from two marriages. His eldest child is actress Tatum O’Neal, with whom he filmed the nostalgic tragicomedy “Paper Moon” in 1973. His youngest child from his relationship with Fawcett, son Redmond, was born in 1985.
Source: Stern
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