Sonny Barger, center, with other members of the Hells Angels at a news conference in Oakland, Calif., in 1965. He was among the motorcycle club’s most visible members for decades.

Sonny Barger, founder of Hells Angels, has died at 83. The iconic outlaw biker had a brief batte with cancer, according to statement Thursday morning.

From 'Easy Rider' to Hunter S. Thompson, Variety examines the cultural impact of the Hells Angels and Sonny Barger, who died June 29 at 83.

Sonny Barger, founder of Hells Angels, has died at 83. The iconic outlaw biker had a brief batte with cancer, according to statement Thursday morning.

Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club founder and "Sons of Anarchy" actor Sonny Barger died Wednesday following a "brief battle with cancer." He was 83 years old.

Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger has died at the age of 83 after battling cancer. The biker, from California, passed away peacefully surrounded by his wife, Zorana, and relatives on June 29.

Sonny Barger, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, equal parts brawler, bully, braggart, rule breaker and shrewd huckster of his own outlaw mystique, died June 29 at ...

With the death this week of Ralph “Sonny” Barger, national president of famed motorcycle club the Hells Angels, a piece of vibrant American pop culture history recedes farther into the past.

Sonny Barger, the notorious and feared leader of the Hells Angels, was actually a hell-raising hypocrite who relied more on his biker mystique than actual menace. In his new book “Exile on Fr… ...

HELLS Angels founder Sonny Barger has died at the age of 83 after battling cancer. The biker, of California, passed away peacefully surrounded by his wife Zorana and relatives on June 29. A stateme… ...

The Hells Angels was founded in the 1940s in Fontana, but Barger formed the Oakland chapter in April 1957. He became the club’s national president, its most visible and voluble figure. Advertisement ...

Sonny Barger, the leather-clad figurehead of the notorious Hells Angels motorcycle club, has died. He was 83. Barger's death was announced on his Facebook page late Wednesday.