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
Frank Middlemass Peace" (a memorable performance as Mikhail Kutuzov), "Crown Court", "Last of the Summer Wine", "Ripping Yarns" (Murder at Moorstone's Manor), "Upstairs, Downstairs", "Poldark" (1975), "Fall of Eagles" (as Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin), "The Sweeney" and "Emmerdale Farm". He played Sir Charles Lyndon in Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" (1975). Middlemass played the philandering butcher Mr. Lyon in the final episode of the third season of the British series "Upstairs, Downstairs" in 1973, but it was not until 1980, when he appeared in the post-World War I drama "To Serve Them All My Days", that he first took a leading role