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Ryan O'Neal
Los Angeles, California, USA
Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal (April 20, 1941 – December 8, 2023) was an American actor and former boxer. O'Neal trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in…
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Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal (April 20, 1941 – December 8, 2023) was an American actor and former boxer. O'Neal trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place. The series was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career. He later found success in films, most notably Love Story (1970), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Actor, Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Walter Hill's The Driver (1978). From 2005 to 2017, he had a recurring role in the Fox TV series Bones as Max, the father of the show's protagonist.
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2024
Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze
Movie Self (Archival Footage)
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2019
My Best Friend's Famous
Movie Himself
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2019
This Is Farrah Fawcett
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Filmworker
Movie Self
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2015
Knight of Cups
Movie Ryan
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2015
Unity
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2014
Kubrick Remembered
Movie Self
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2012
Slumber Party Slaughter
Movie William O'Toole
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2011
Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals
TV show
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2010
The Talk
TV show Self
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2009
NCIS: Los Angeles
TV show
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2009
Farrah's Story
Movie Self
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2006
What About Brian
TV show
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2005
Bones
TV show Max Keenan
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2004
Desperate Housewives
TV show Rodney Scavo
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2003
Miss Match
TV show Jerry Fox
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2003
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Movie Self
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2003
Malibu's Most Wanted
Movie Bill Gluckman
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2003
Gentleman B.
Movie Phil, Bank Manager
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2002
People I Know
Movie Cary Launer
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2001
Epoch
Movie Allen Lysander
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2000
The List
Movie Richard Miller
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2000
Bull
TV show
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1999
Coming Soon
Movie Dick
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1998
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Movie James Edmunds
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1998
Zero Effect
Movie Gregory Stark
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1997
Timecop
TV show
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1997
Sink Or Swim
Movie Dr. Applefield
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1997
Playboy: Farrah Fawcett, All of Me
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV show
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1996
Faithful
Movie Jack Connor
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1995
Man of the House
Movie Man with Kite (uncredited)
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1992
The Man Upstairs
Movie Mooney Polaski
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1992
The Larry Sanders Show
TV show Ryan O'Neal
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1991
Good Sports
TV show Bobby Tannen
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1989
Small Sacrifices
Movie Lew Lewiston
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1989
Small Sacrifices
TV show Lew Lewiston
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1989
Chances Are
Movie Philip Train
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1988
Sam Found Out: A Triple Play
Movie Pimp
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1987
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Movie Tim Madden
