Ryan O'Neal
Birthday: 1941-04-20 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USACharles Patrick Ryan O'Neal (born April 20, 1941) is 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Self
as William O'Toole
as Bill Gluckman
as Jerry Fox
as Cary Launer
as Allen Lysander
as Gregory Stark
as James Edmunds
as Self (archive footage)
as Mooney Polaski
as Philip Train
as Tim Madden
as Albert Brodsky
as Joseph Wiley
as Eddie "Kid Natural" Scanlon
as Leo Harrigan
as Redmond Barry / Barry Lyndon
as Moses Pray
as Webster McGee
as Howard Bannister
as Oliver Barrett IV
as Jack Ryan
as Rodney Harrington
as Tal Garrett
