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
Barry Lyndon body, Barry accepts. Barry, humiliated, hobbles on crutches to a carriage. The narrator states that Barry went first back to Ireland with his mother, then once he was fully recovered, he traveled to the European continent to resume his former profession of gambler (though without his former success). Barry kept his word and never returned to England or ever saw Lady Lyndon again. The final scene (set in December 1789) shows a middle-aged Lady Lyndon signing Barry's annuity cheque as her son looks on. It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarrelled; good