---
title: 'Barry Lyndon (1975)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Stanley Kubrick'
released: '1975-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 181
certification: 'PG'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'War'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/barry-lyndon-1975'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Barry Lyndon (1975)

1975 · PG · 181 min · Drama, Adventure, War, Comedy, History · United Kingdom, United States


## Synopsis

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. Narrated by Michael Hordern, and starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter, and Hardy Krüger, the film recounts the early exploits and later unravelling of an 18th-century Irish rogue and gold digger who marries a rich widow in order to attempt to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position.

## Credits

- **Director of Photography:** [John Alcott](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-alcott)
- **Director:** [Stanley Kubrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-kubrick)
- **Screenplay:** [Stanley Kubrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-kubrick)
- **Producer:** [Stanley Kubrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-kubrick)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Leonard Rosenman](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonard-rosenman)
- **Editor:** [Tony Lawson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-lawson)

## Cast

- [Jonathan Cecil](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-cecil) as Lt. Jonathan Fakenham
- [Billy Boyle](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-boyle) as Seamus Feeney
- [Roger Booth](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-booth) as George III of Great Britain
- [Godfrey Quigley](https://cinepixo.com/people/godfrey-quigley) as Captain Grogan
- [Pat Roach](https://cinepixo.com/people/pat-roach) as Corporal Toole
- [Frederick Schiller](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-schiller)
- [David Morley](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-morley) as Bryan Patrick Lyndon
- [Ferdy Mayne](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferdy-mayne) as Colonel Bulow
- [John Bindon](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-bindon)
- [Hans Meyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-meyer) as Schulffen
- [Frank Middlemass](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-middlemass) as Sir Charles Reginald Lyndon
- [John Sharp](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-sharp) as Doohan
- [Wolf Kahler](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolf-kahler) as Prince of Tübingen
- [Murray Melvin](https://cinepixo.com/people/murray-melvin) as Reverend Samuel Runt
- [John Alcott](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-alcott) as the man asleep in a chair

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