Cult roles, Love Story by Arthur Hiller (1970), Barry Lyndon, by Stanley Kubrick (1975), a tumultuous life… American actor Ryan O’Neal died on Friday in Los Angeles, at the age of 82 , after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012.
This son of a theater actress and a screenwriter had entered the rings, as an amateur, before shining in front of the cameras. His practice of boxing had also allowed him to start, as a stuntman, in the TV series Tales of the Vikings, at the end of the 1950s. In Tendre Combat, by Howard Zieff (1979), O’Neal plays a returning boxer Eddie “Kid Natural” Scanlon alongside Barbra Streisand. In 1970, in Le Défi, by Michael Winner, this time he played a marathon runner opposed to Charles Aznavour during the 1960 Rome Olympic Games!
A chaotic marriage between Tatum O’Neal and John McEnroe
If he had never won the Oscar – only one nomination, for Love Story -, his daughter Tatum O’Neal had won a statuette, as best supporting actress, at 10 years old (!) , for his participation in Cotton Candy (1973), by Peter Bogdanovitch. Film in which his father played the leading role. Tatum O’Neal would also cross the world of sport when, on August 1, 1986, in Oyster Bay, New York, she married John McEnroe, like her of Irish origin. The American tennis champion, with 7 Grand Slams under his belt at the time, had at that time put his career on hold since January 1986. The former world number one would return to the courts after his marriage, but he would never again win a tennis tournament. Grand Slam.
John McEnroe and Tatum O’Neal when they were a couple. (The Team)
Tatum O’Neal and John McEnroe had three children together, but their story ended in divorce in 1994. McEnroe even ended up obtaining custody of his children due in particular to his ex-wife’s drug addiction. He also denounced the bad influence of his ex-father-in-law, himself struggling with numerous drug problems, and one day described him, on television, as a “particularly odious individual”.
2023-12-09 12:32:15
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