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
Gene Barry played a millionaire homicide investigator who was chauffeured in his limousine as he solved crimes. This series was broadcast on ABC-TV from September 20, 1963, to May 5, 1965. For his performance in it, Barry won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1965. In 1965–66, the final season of the series, the title of the show changed to "Amos Burke Secret Agent". (In 1994 a revival of the "Burke's Law" series returned to television for two seasons on CBS – Barry again played in the title role, but this time as a widower working with his son Peter