Barry Lyndon Barry Lyndon Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period drama film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon" by William Makepeace Thackeray. It stars Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter and Hardy Krüger. The film recounts the early exploits and later unraveling of a fictional 18th-century Irish rogue and opportunist who marries a rich widow to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position. Kubrick began production on Barry Lyndon, after his 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick had originally intended to direct a biopic on Napoleon, but lost
Simon Lyndon Simon Lyndon Simon Lyndon (born February 1971, in London) is an Australian actor and director who grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is a WAAPA graduate. Lyndon played Jimmy Loughlin in "Chopper" with Eric Bana, for which he won an AFI award for Best Supporting Actor and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for best supporting actor. He received AFI nominations for Best Supporting Actor for "Blackrock" (as "Ricko") and Best actor in a telefeature or mini-series for his role in "My Brother Jack". Other films include "Fresh Air", "Sample People", "The Thin Red Line", "From the Outside"