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
Barry Livingston Barry Livingston Barry Gordon Livingston (born December 17, 1953) is an American television and film actor, known for his role as "Ernie Douglas" on the television series "My Three Sons" (1963–72). He is the younger brother of actor/director Stanley Livingston, who played Ernie's older brother "Chip" on the show. Livingston was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Lillian Rochelle "Marilyn" Palyash and Hilliard Livingston. He began his career as a child actor in the late 1950s. He considers his film debut a role he won as one of the sons of Paul Newman in the film "Rally 'Round