Ryan O'Neal
Birthday: 20 April 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: Charles Samuel Eldridge Patrick Ryan O'Neal III
Height: 185 cm
Ryan O'Neal was born on April 20, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Charles Samuel Eldridge Patrick Ryan O'Neal III. He is an actor, known for Peyton Place (1964), Barry Lyndon (1975) ...Show More
[on Love Story (1970)] I didn't worry a lot about whether I was preparing enough for the part. I'm n Show more
[on Love Story (1970)] I didn't worry a lot about whether I was preparing enough for the part. I'm not into study and research much. I just thought about it as a story about a man and a woman and I made sure I looked right. You know, the right scarf, the right sweater. Hide
The only time I ever had steady employment was in Peyton Place (1964). Once I was in control of my d Show more
The only time I ever had steady employment was in Peyton Place (1964). Once I was in control of my destiny, I found it very difficult. Hide
If I could get a good director to choose me for a picture, I was okay. But they stopped calling me i Show more
If I could get a good director to choose me for a picture, I was okay. But they stopped calling me in the mid-70s ... I made a whole bunch of pictures that didn't make any money and people lost interest in me ... Directors take me reluctantly. I feel I'm lucky to be here in the first place and they know it too. I'm a glamour boy, a Hollywood product. I have a TV background and they can point to the silly movies I've made. Hide
I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde wom Show more
I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me - Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick. [in Vanity Fair, admitting to propositioning a woman (who he was unable to recognize as his own daughter) at Farrah Fawcett's funeral] Hide
[on Farrah Fawcett's ongoing cancer battle] It's a love story. I just don't know how to play this on Show more
[on Farrah Fawcett's ongoing cancer battle] It's a love story. I just don't know how to play this one. I won't know this world without her. Cancer is an insidious enemy. Hide
I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.
I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.
[when asked how he would like to be remembered, 2011] He was a child to children and a man to men.
[when asked how he would like to be remembered, 2011] He was a child to children and a man to men.
[on Barbra Streisand] The most pretentious woman the cinema has ever known.
[on Barbra Streisand] The most pretentious woman the cinema has ever known.
Ryan O'Neal's FILMOGRAPHY
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Ryan O'Neal'S roles
The Driver
Barry Lyndon
Max Keenan
Bill Gluckman
Brigadier General Gavin
Spence Montgomery
Moses Pray
