Ryan O’Neal Net Worth

Ryan O’Neal's Quotes

• The only time I ever had steady employment was in Peyton Place (1964). Once I was in control of my destiny, I found it very difficult.
• [About Farrah Fawcett's ultimately unsuccessful cancer battle]: It's a love story. I just don't know how to play this one. I won't know this world without her. Cancer is an insidious enemy.

Interesting Facts about Ryan O’Neal

1. Father of Patrick O'Neal (full name at birth: Charles Samuel Eldridge Patrick Ryan O'Neal IV) by actress Leigh Taylor-Young.
2. Began his career as a stand-in and stuntman. He was reportedly considered for the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) as well as for the role of Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976). However, "Rocky" scriptwriter Sylvester Stallone had sold the film rights on the condition that he got to play the title role, so he and not O'Neal wound up starring in the picture.
3. Father, with Joanna Moore, of daughter Tatum O'Neal and son Griffin O'Neal. Ex-father-in-law of John McEnroe.
4. Ex-brother-in-law of Dey Young and Lance Young.
5. Friends with Lee Majors until his long-term relationship began with Majors' then-wife, actress Farrah Fawcett.
6. Patrick "Ryan" O'Neal attended and graduated from Munich American High School (established to serve the US military in the Southern Bavarian region after World War II) in 1959. His brother is Kevin O'Neal. Their father was a Hollywood writer who was doing a stint working for the famed communist-busting "Radio Free Europe," and he attended high school at Munich AHS alongside the children of servicemen stationed there.
7. As a teenager, he was a Golden Gloves boxer who compiled an amateur boxing record of 18-4 with 13 knockouts.
8. His manager is Neil Hassman.
9. One of his best friends is Charlie Mattera.
10. Prosecutors decided not to file charges against Ryan O'Neal following a row with his son and allegations of assault on February 3rd. [May 2007]
11. Was in a relationship with Barbara Parkins between his first and second marriages. In the 1970s, he dated Anouk Aimée, Barbara Allen, Ursula Andress, Jacqueline Bisset, Florinda Bolkan, Juanita Brown, Barbara Carrera, Oona Chaplin, Julie Christie, Pat Cleveland, Joan Collins, Britt Ekland, Melanie Griffith, Sabrina Guinness, Christa Helm, Anjelica Huston, Lauren Hutton, Bianca Jagger, Claudine Longet, Diana Ross, Cybill Shepherd, Barbra Streisand, Diane von Fürstenberg, Tuesday Weld and Lana Wood. He was later involved with Leslie Stefanson while on a break from Farrah.
12. Son of Patricia O'Neal and Charles O'Neal. Ryan's paternal grandfather, Charles Samuel Eldridge Patrick Ryan O'Neal, was born in South Carolina, and had Irish and English ancestry. His paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Maude Duffey, was born in Ireland, as was Ryan's maternal grandfather, Richard Edward O'Callaghan. His maternal grandmother, Mathilde Pius, was born in New York, to a Jewish family; Mathilde's father, Gustave Pius, was from Germany, and Mathilde's mother, Rebecca (or Regina) Iglick, was from Schrimm (now Srem, Poland).
13. Was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm after a fight with his son Griffin O'Neal. Griffin apparently tied his intoxicated younger brother Redmond O'Neal to a staircase in order to keep him from leaving the house to use more drugs. When Ryan returned home and saw his son tied to the staircase he became so enraged that he fired a warning shot in order to scare Griffin. [February 2007]
14. He and his son Redmond O'Neal were arrested on suspicion of narcotics possession. [September 2008]
15. Was sentenced to undergo 18 months of rehabilitation treatment after pleading guilty to drug possession in relation to his arrest in September 2008. [January 2009]
16. Resided with Farrah Fawcett from 1979 to 1997; the union produced a son, Redmond O'Neal. In 2001, the couple came back together after Ryan O'Neal was diagnosed with leukemia.
17. Although never able to convince Farrah Fawcett to marry him, O'Neal did propose various times. Fawcett died at 9:28 AM PST on June 25, 2009 at age 62 before she and O'Neal could carry out the ceremony.
18. O'Neal served 51 days of a 60-day sentence for assaulting a stranger during a New Year's Eve party in Los Angeles, California. [1960]
19. Knocked out Frankie Lohman in 1-round in an amateur boxing match in Munich, Germany. [1959]
20. Lost a 3-round decision to Tony Foramero in Los Angeles, California in an amateur boxing match. (Golden Gloves Tournament: Open Division: Semi-Finals). [1957]