Pat Roach receiving affectionate cheering from the spectators. He was trained by Alf Kent, his first official wrestling match was against George Selko in 1960. Roach held both the British and European Heavyweight Wrestling Championships at one time. Roach made his acting debut as the red-bearded bouncer in the Korova Milkbar in Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971). He worked on another Kubrick film "Barry Lyndon" (1975), where he played a hand-to-hand brawler named 'Toole' who engages Ryan O'Neal (as the title character) in fist fight. Roach went on to play a number of strong-man supporting character roles in cinema films in
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