
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 Himself
as Self
as William O'Toole
as Bill Gluckman
as Jerry Fox
as Phil, Bank Manager
as Cary Launer
as Allen Lysander
as Richard Miller
as Gregory Stark
as James Edmunds
as Self (archive footage)
as Jack Connor
as Jeremy Proctor
as Jeremy Proctor
as Mooney Polaski
as Bobby Tannen
as Lew Lewiston
as Lew Lewiston
as Philip Train
as Tim Madden
as Taggart
as Albert Brodsky
as Joseph Wiley
as Sgt. Benson
as Bobby Fine