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
The Count of Monte Cristo (1975 film) The Count of Monte Cristo (1975 film) The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1975 television film produced by ITC Entertainment and based upon the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was directed by David Greene and starred Richard Chamberlain as Edmond Dantès, Kate Nelligan as Mercedes, Tony Curtis as Fernand Mondego, Louis Jourdan (who played Edmond Dantès in the 1961 film adaptation of the novel) as De Villefort, Donald Pleasence as Danglars, Trevor Howard as Abbé Faria, and Isabelle de Valvert as Haydee. ITC had previously produced a 39-part TV series based on the