America’s like story with Ryan O’Neal will reside on.
The famous star passed away Dec 8, his boy Patrick O’Neal shared onInstagram He was 82.
“This is the toughest thing I’ve ever had to say,” Patrick composed. “My dad passed away peacefully today, with his loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us.”
He did not share a cause of death for the Oscar candidate, who was identified with leukemia in 2001 and prostate cancer in 2012.
Born in 1941, Ryan increased to popularity playing Rodney Harrington on ABC’s Peyton Place from 1964 to1969 He then made a splash on the cinema as preppy Harvard law trainee Oliver opposite Ali McGraw in 1970’s Love Story, following it up with starring functions in Paper Moon, Barry Lyndon and What’s Up, Doc?
In more current years, he appeared on Fox’s Bones as the father of Emily Deschanel‘s titular forensic anthropologist, making his last movie look in 2015’s Knight of Cups and telling the documentary Unity that very same year.
But for Patrick, Ryan was his all-time “hero.”
“I looked up to him and he was always bigger than life,” the commentator shared in a prolonged homage. “When I was born in 1967 my father was currently a television star on Peyton Place That’s where he satisfied my mommy Leigh Taylor-Young, and about 9 months later on (provide or take a date night or 2) I was born.”
