Barry Lyndon voice-over (by actor Michael Hordern), the comments expressed are not Barry's, but those of an omniscient narrator. Kubrick felt that using a first-person narrative would not be useful in a film adaptation: Kubrick made several changes to the plot, including the addition of the final duel. 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
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