RIP Ryan O’Neal

Actor Ryan O’Neal, who played “Barry Lyndon” (1975), in director Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about a poor, naive 18th-century man who rises into English society through cunning and then falls from those heights, has died:

“…’Barry Lyndon  directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel ‘The Luck of Barry Lyndon’by William Makepeace Thackeray, starred O'Neal…

“…recounting the early exploits and later unravelling of an ambitious 18th-century rogue, gambler and golddigger who marries a rich widow to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position…”

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