LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan O’Neal, the heartthrob actor who went from a TV cleaning soap opera to an Oscar-nominated position in “Love Story” and delivered a wry efficiency reverse his charismatic 9-year-old daughter Tatum in “Paper Moon,” died Friday, his son stated.

“My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us,” Patrick O’Neal, a Los Angeles sportscaster, posted on Instagram.

No trigger of demise was given. Ryan O’Neal was recognized with prostate most cancers in 2012, a decade after he was first recognized with persistent leukemia. He was 82.

“My father, Ryan O’Neal, has always been my hero,” Patrick O’Neal wrote, including, “He is a Hollywood legend. Full stop.”

“He meant the world to me. I loved him very much and know he loved me too,” Tatum O’Neal advised People journal in an announcement. “I’ll miss him forever. and I feel very lucky that we ended on such good terms.”

Ryan O’Neal was among the many largest film stars on this planet within the Nineteen Seventies, working throughout genres with many of the period’s most celebrated administrators together with Peter Bogdanovich on “Paper Moon” and “What’s Up, Doc?” and Stanley Kubrick on “Barry Lyndon.” He usually used his boyish, blond attractiveness to play males who hid shadowy or sinister backgrounds behind their clean-cut photos.

O’Neal maintained a gentle tv performing profession into his 70s within the 2010s, showing for stints on “Bones” and “Desperate Housewives,” however his longtime relationship with Farrah Fawcett and his tumultuous household life stored him in information.

Twice divorced, O’Neal was romantically concerned with Fawcett for almost 30 years, and so they had a son, (*82*), born in 1985. The couple break up in 1997, however reunited a couple of years later. He remained by Fawcett’s facet as she battled most cancers, which killed her in 2009 at age 62.

With his first spouse, Joanna Moore, O’Neal fathered actors Griffin O’Neal and Tatum O’Neal, his co-star within the 1973 film “Paper Moon,” for which she gained an Oscar for greatest supporting actress. He had son Patrick together with his second spouse, Leigh Taylor-Young.

Ryan O’Neal had his personal greatest actor Oscar nomination for the 1970 tear-jerker drama “Love Story,” co-starring Ali MacGraw, a couple of younger couple who fall in love, marry and uncover she is dying of most cancers. The film consists of the memorable, however usually satirized line: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

The actor had at instances strained relationships with three of his kids, together with estrangement from his daughter, squabbles with son Griffin and a drug-related arrest sparked by a probation verify of his son (*82*). The private drama usually over-shadowed his later profession, though his makes an attempt to reconcile with Tatum O’Neal had been was a short-lived actuality collection.

O’Neal performed bit elements and carried out some stunt work earlier than claiming a lead position on the prime-time cleaning soap opera “Peyton Place” (1964-69), which additionally made a star of Mia Farrow.

From there O’Neal jumped to the massive display screen with 1969’s “The Big Bounce,” which co-stared his then-wife, Taylor-Young. But it was “Love Story” that made him a film star.

The romantic melodrama was the highest-grossing movie of 1970, grew to become one of Paramount Pictures’ largest hits and picked up seven Oscar nominations, together with one for greatest image. It gained for greatest music.

After “Love Story” made him a significant film star, O’Neal was thought of for seemingly each main main position in Hollywood. Paramount even pushed for him to to star as Michael Corleone in “The Godfather” earlier than Al Pacino obtained the half at the insistence of director Francis Ford Coppola.

O’Neal then starred for Bogdanovich as a bumbling professor reverse Barbra Streisand within the 1972 screwball comedy “What’s Up, Doc?”

“So sad to hear the news of Ryan O’Neal’s passing,” Streisand, who additionally starred with O’Neal within the 1979 boxing rom-com “The Main Event,” posted on Instagram. “He was funny and charming, and he will be remembered.”

The 12 months after “What’s Up, Doc?” Bogdanovich solid him within the Depression-era con artist comedy “Paper Moon.”

In it, O’Neal performed an unscrupulous Bible salesman preying on widows he positioned by way of obituary notices. His real-life daughter, Tatum, performed a trash-talking, cigarette-smoking orphan who wants his assist — and ultimately helps redeem him.

Although critics praised each actors, the little woman’s brash efficiency overshadowed her father’s and made her the youngest particular person in historical past to win a aggressive Academy Award. She was 10 when the award was introduced in 1974. (Younger performers akin to Shirley Temple have gained particular Oscars.)

The elder O’Neal’s subsequent main movie was Kubrick’s 18th century epic “Barry Lyndon,” during which he performed a poor Irish rogue who traveled Europe attempting to cross himself off as an aristocrat.

Filming the three-hour film was tedious work, nevertheless, and Kubrick’s infamous perfectionism created a rift between him and the actor that by no means healed.

O’Neal then reteamed with Tatum in Bogdanovich’s early Hollywood comedy “Nickelodeon” (1976). But the movie was a flop and so they by no means labored collectively once more. An try to capitalize on his “Love Story” character, Oliver Barrett, with the sequel “Oliver’s Story” (1978) resulted in one other flop.

Father and daughter drifted aside as Tatum grew older, with the elder actor studying about his daughter’s marriage to tennis nice John McEnroe by a belated telegram, Ryan O’Neal wrote in a 2012 e book about his relationship with Fawcett.

“A door inside me locked the morning the telegram came, and I am still blindly searching for the key to open it,” O’Neal wrote in “Both of Us.”

O’Neal’s profession cooled additional within the Eighties with the emerald heist drama “Green Ice” (1981) and the 1984 comedy “Irreconcilable Differences,” during which he performed a busy father in an sad marriage whose daughter, performed by 9-year-old Drew Barrymore, tries to divorce her mother and father.

The decade was additionally a low-point in O’Neal’s private life. His son Griffin confronted quite a few brushes with the legislation, together with a 1986 boating accident that killed Gian-Carlo Coppola, 23, son of film director Francis Ford Coppola in Maryland. Griffin O’Neal was convicted of negligently and recklessly working a ship, obtained a neighborhood service sentence and later served a quick stint in jail because of this.

With his Hollywood standing diminishing, Ryan O’Neal started showing in TV motion pictures and ultimately returned to collection tv reverse then-lover Fawcett with the 1991 sitcom “Good Sports,” however the present ran just one season.

Both acknowledged the work put a pressure on their relationship.

“We get into fights,” O’Neal stated in 1991. “She’s tough. She expects to be treated well. On a set that can get lost when you’re trying to create a moment and you’re fighting the clock.”

O’Neal started accepting extra supporting roles with the 1989 movie “Chances Are.” He started a second profession as a personality actor, enjoying a husband who hires a hitman to kill his spouse in “Faithful” (1996) and a mysterious tycoon within the blackmail comedy “Zero Effect” (1998).

By then his relationship with Fawcett had ended, though they remained shut and ultimately rekindled their romance within the 2000s. The risky O’Neal household dynamics that had taxed their relationship earlier than, nevertheless, remained.

In 2007 the elder O’Neal was arrested in 2007 for alleged assault and firing a weapon in an altercation with Griffin, however costs had been by no means pursued. Their son (*82*) was repeatedly arrested, jailed and spent a number of years in court-mandated rehab.

A probation verify on (*82*) O’Neal in September 2008 at his father’s Malibu residence led to the actor’s arrest for methamphetamine possession. Ryan O’Neal pleaded responsible to the cost and entered a drug diversion program, however he publicly denied the medication had been his. He stated he confiscated them from his son and was attempting to guard him.

Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal was born on April 20, 1941, and was the son of screenwriter Charles O’Neal and actor Patricia Callaghan O’Neal. O’Neal hung out as a lifeguard and an newbie boxer earlier than discovering his calling as a performer.

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AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton contributed.