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
Jacob the Liar (1975 film) Jacob the Liar (1975 film) Jacob the Liar () is a 1975 East German-Czechoslovakian Holocaust film directed by Frank Beyer, and based on the novel of the same name by Jurek Becker. It starred Vlastimil Brodský in the title role. Work on the picture began in 1965, but production was halted in summer 1966. Becker, who had originally planned "Jacob the Liar" as a screenplay, decided to make it a novel instead. In 1972, after the book garnered considerable success, work on the picture resumed. In a Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland, a man named Jakob is caught on the