Barbra Streisand pays tribute to her late ex Ryan O’Neal: ‘Funny and charming’

Barbra Streisand remembered her late co-star and former lover Ryan O’Neal as “funny and charming” amid news of his death.

“So sad to hear the news of Ryan O’Neal’s passing,” the legendary actress captioned a black and white Instagram photo of the young duo working together on Friday.

“We made two films together, ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ and ‘The Main Event.’ He was funny and charming, and he will be remembered.”

O’Neal “passed away peacefully” on Friday, his son, Patrick, announced.

In her recently-released memoir “My Name Is Barbra,” Streisand claimed she and the “Love Story” star first met at a dinner party in 1970, writing the actor, “fancied me and asked for my number.”

“We started seeing each other, and it was kind of a new dynamic for me . . . easy and casual,” she penned. “I remember a moment early on when he told me, ‘I love you,’ and I said, ‘What do you mean? You don’t know me.’ Trust me to be so literal.”

Although their relationship “fizzled” by the time they shot “What’s Up, Doc?” in 1972, they still remained friendly.

“I learned more about comedy from Barbara than anyone,” O’Neal reflected to The Hollywood Reporter in March 2022.

O’Neal and Streisand reunited on-screen for 1979’s “The Main Event.”

Patrick O’Neal announced his father’s death on Friday. Ryan was 82.

“My father Ryan O’Neal has always been my hero. I looked up to him and he was always bigger than life,” Patrick wrote in a lengthy Instagram post. “As a human being, my father was as generous as they come. And the funniest person in any room. And the most handsome clearly, but also the most charming. Lethal combo. He loved to make people laugh. It’s pretty much his goal. Didn’t matter the situation, if there was a joke to be found, he nailed it. He really wanted us laughing. And we did all laugh. Every time. We had fun. Fun in the sun.”

Ryan’s cause of death is unknown, but he was diagnosed with leukemia in 2001 and with prostate cancer in 2012.

Mia Farrow, who starred alongside Ryan on “Peyton Place,” also remembered her co-star in a touching tribute.

“I was 18 when we made the pilot for ‘Peyton Place,’” she wrote on Instagram.

“He was several years older than me, happily married to a gorgeous actress Joanna Moore and they had a new baby (Tatum). He was so confident and very, very funny! There were times when he made me laugh so uncontrollably that we had to stop shooting.”

“He was my first, very secret crush. I was so shy I could barely look at him. After I left the show we remained friends altho (sic) we saw each other rarely. In the 70s he was Godfather to one of my kids- the baptism was in the old church in English countryside where I lived with my husband Andre. But in time Ryan forgot. His life became increasingly complicated. In recent years we kept in touch by phone. I hope he will rest in peace.”

“My thoughts are with his children. Tatum remains my friend,” Farrow concluded.

Tatum had a rough relationship with her father since childhood, but in a statement Friday, claimed she was “lucky” that they “ended on such good terms” before his death.