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Barré Lyndon (pseudonym of Alfred Edgar Frederick Higgs) (12 August 1896 – 23 October 1972) was a British playwright and screenwriter. The pseudonym was presumably taken from the title character of Thackeray's 1844 novel.
Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Barry Lyndon: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger. An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
- Stanley Kubrick
- 2 min
Barré Lyndon was born on 12 August 1896 in England, UK. Barré was a writer, known for The War of the Worlds (1953), The House on 92nd Street (1945) and The Man in Half Moon Street (1944). Barré was married to Grace Lillian (Cherry) Traveller and Valeria Frances Lake.
- Writer, Additional Crew
- August 12, 1896
- Barré Lyndon
- October 23, 1972
In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlors of high society.
- Barry Lyndon
Sep 9, 2009 · Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon," received indifferently in 1975, has grown in stature in the years since and is now widely regarded as one of the master's best. It is certainly in every frame a Kubrick film: technically awesome, emotionally distant, remorseless in its doubt of human goodness.
Jul 25, 2016 · Even by the standards of a director famed for dividing opinion, Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 film Barry Lyndon, a three-hour tale of the rise and fall of an 18th-century Irish adventurer, is an oddity.
