Cast
- Ryan O'Neal as Redmond Barry (later Redmond Barry Lyndon)
- Marisa Berenson as Lady Lyndon
- Patrick Magee as the Chevalier du Balibari
- Hardy Krüger as Captain Potzdorf
- Gay Hamilton as Nora Brady
- Godfrey Quigley as Captain Grogan
- Steven Berkoff as Lord Ludd
- Marie Kean as Belle, Barry's mother
- Murray Melvin as Reverend Samuel Runt
- Frank Middlemass as Sir Charles Reginald Lyndon
- Leon Vitali as Lord Bullingdon
- Dominic Savage as young Bullingdon
- Leonard Rossiter as Captain John Quin
- André Morell as Lord Wendover
- Anthony Sharp as Lord Hallam
- Philip Stone as Graham
- David Morley as Bryan Patrick Lyndon
- Michael Hordern (voice) as Narrator
- Diana Koerner as Lischen (German Girl)
- Arthur O'Sullivan as Captain Feeny
- Billy Boyle as Seamus Feeny
Critic Tim Robey suggests, that the film "makes you realise that the most undervalued aspect of Kubrick's genius could well be his way with actors." He adds that the supporting cast is a "glittering procession of cameos, not from star names but from vital character players."
The cast featured Leon Vitali as the older Lord Bullingdon, who would then become Kubrick's personal assistant, working as the casting director on his following films, and supervising film-to-video transfers for Kubrick. Their relationship lasted until Kubrick's death. The film's cinematographer, John Alcott, appears at the men's club in the non-speaking role of the man asleep in a chair near the title character when Lord Bullingdon challenges Barry to a duel. Kubrick's daughter Vivian also appears (in an uncredited role) as a guest at Bryan's birthday party.
Kubrick stalwarts Patrick Magee (who had played the handicapped writer in A Clockwork Orange) and Philip Stone (who had played Alex's father in A Clockwork Orange, and would go on to play the dead caretaker Grady in The Shining) are featured as the Chevalier du Balibari and as Graham, respectively.
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