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 John Alcott, appears at the men's club in the non-speaking role of the man asleep in a chair near the title character when Lord Bullingdon challenges Barry to a duel. Kubrick's daughter Vivian also appears (in an uncredited role) as a guest at Bryan's birthday party. Other Kubrick featured regulars were Leonard Rossiter (""), Steven Berkoff, Patrick Magee, Godfrey Quigley, Anthony Sharp and Philip Stone ("A Clockwork Orange"). Stone would go on to feature in "The Shining". After completing post production "", Kubrick resumed planning a film about Napoleon. During pre-production, Sergei Bondarchuk and Dino De Laurentiis' "Waterloo" was released,