Ryan O'Neal to star in a movie for Stanley Kubrick, "Barry Lyndon". While that film was in pre production, O'Neal played a jewel thief in "The Thief Who Came to Dinner" (1972) opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Warren Oates. Then he was reunited with Bogdanovich for "Paper Moon" (1973) in which he starred opposite his daughter Tatum O'Neal. Tatum won an Oscar for her performance in a very popular movie and in 1973, Ryan O'Neal was voted by exhibitors as the second most popular star in the country, behind Clint Eastwood. O'Neal spent over a year making "Barry Lyndon" (1975) for Kubrick. The
Title role character need not be the subject of the whole title in a strict grammatical sense: Uncle Tom is the title character of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Lee Marvin is often described as playing the title character in the film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", as his character (Liberty Valance) is named in the title, even though the subject of the title is the person who shot him. A title character may be the main antagonist, e.g. Sauron in "The Lord of the Rings" or Bram Stoker's "Dracula". In "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", the wizard is the title character,