Barry Lyndon sights on Thackeray's 1844 "satirical picaresque about the fortune-hunting of an Irish rogue," "Barry Lyndon", the setting of which allowed Kubrick to take advantage of the copious period research he had done for the now-aborted "Napoleon". At the time, Kubrick merely announced that his next film would star Ryan O'Neal (deemed "a seemingly un-Kubricky choice of leading man") and Marisa Berenson, a former "Vogue" and "Time" magazine cover model, and be shot largely in Ireland. So heightened was the secrecy surrounding the film that "Even Berenson, when Kubrick first approached her, was told only that it was to be an
Don "Red" Barry feature Westerns in the mid 1960s. On January 13, 1965, Barry was cast in the final episode of the short-lived "Mickey" ABC sitcom starring Mickey Rooney. Barry was cast as a freeloading friend who had saved Mickey's life in World War II. In 1966, Barry played Confederate soldier "Lt. Farrow" in the Western film "Alvarez Kelly". Barry played a supporting role in the 1968 film, "Shalako", with Sean Connery . Barry played supporting roles in dozens of television series, particularly westerns. He appeared eight times on the long-running NBC series, "The Virginian," in the 1960s. He appeared in six episodes