Actor Ryan O’Neal died at 82

American actor Ryan O’Neal, known for cult films from the 1970s such as ‘Love Story’ and ‘Paper Moon’, died this Friday at the age of 82.

“This is very difficult for us (…) Ryan He was a big influence and this will be difficult without him. It is and will be a huge void in our lives,” his son, sportscaster Patrick O’Neal, said in an Instagram post.

No further details of the death were given, but O’Neal In 2001, he was diagnosed with chronic leukemia, and in 2012 with prostate cancer.

O’Neal began to find a place for himself on the small screen with the late-night soap opera ‘Peyton Place’, in which he appeared alongside Mia Farrow, to make a meteoric leap into the cinema with the critically acclaimed ‘Love Story’ (1970) opposite Ali MacGraw, which earned him seven Academy Award nominations, including as a leading actor.

Two years later, he will star in a comedy “What’s up doctor” in Spanish), directed by Peter Bogdanovich, in which he plays a young music teacher who meets the eccentric young Judy (Barbra Streisand), with whom he leaves endless crazy situations that still exist among movie fans today.

O’Neal and Bogdanovich would repeat the team ‘Paper Moon’ (1973), where, alongside Madelyn Kahn, he demonstrated his versatility as both a comic and touching actor.

He was married to actresses Joanna Moore (1963-1967) and Leigh Taylor-Young (1967-1974), and in 1981 he began courting the famous Farrah Fawcett, star of the series ‘Charlie’s Angels’ (‘Charlie’s Angels’ ‘, in Spanish), with whom she broke up in 1997. From that relationship, she had a son, Redmond O’Neal, also an actor.

However, their union was marked by alleged infidelities O’Neal, Addiction problems and an alleged lack of control over his temper also affected his career.

Therefore, it gradually lost its importance Hollywood until he was delegated to sporadic works in the nineties, such as the feature film ‘The Man Upstairs’ (1992) with Katherine Hepburn or the comedy-thriller ‘Zero Effect’ directed by Jake Kasdan.

“I will share my father’s legacy forever. I will not be stopped by outside voices saying negative things. If you choose to speak ill of my father, even if you have no idea what you are talking about, your attention will be drawn,” his son Patrick emphasized in a statement this Friday .

2012, three years later Fawcett died of cancerO’Neal published his memoir, ‘Both of Us: My Life with Farrah’, in which he presented his version of the relationship he had with the female icon and tried to channel his family relationship after a long estrangement with his daughter Oscar. – award-winning actress Tatum O’Neal.