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
Don "Red" Barry feature Westerns in the mid 1960s. On January 13, 1965, Barry was cast in the final episode of the short-lived "Mickey" ABC sitcom starring Mickey Rooney. Barry was cast as a freeloading friend who had saved Mickey's life in World War II. In 1966, Barry played Confederate soldier "Lt. Farrow" in the Western film "Alvarez Kelly". Barry played a supporting role in the 1968 film, "Shalako", with Sean Connery . Barry played supporting roles in dozens of television series, particularly westerns. He appeared eight times on the long-running NBC series, "The Virginian," in the 1960s. He appeared in six episodes