Barry Lyndon sights on Thackeray's 1844 "satirical picaresque about the fortune-hunting of an Irish rogue," "Barry Lyndon", the setting of which allowed Kubrick to take advantage of the copious period research he had done for the now-aborted "Napoleon". At the time, Kubrick merely announced that his next film would star Ryan O'Neal (deemed "a seemingly un-Kubricky choice of leading man") and Marisa Berenson, a former "Vogue" and "Time" magazine cover model, and be shot largely in Ireland. So heightened was the secrecy surrounding the film that "Even Berenson, when Kubrick first approached her, was told only that it was to be an
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