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Leon Vitali, Actor, Dies aged 74

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August 21, 2022

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Actor Leon Vitali, who was most known for his role as Lord Bullingdon in “Barry Lyndon” (and later worked as Stanley Kubrick’s personal assistant), passed away on Saturday, Aged 74.

The official Kubrick Twitter account confirmed Vitali’s passing. Sadly, we don’t know any more about Vitali’s passing beyond what’s already been reported.

Vitali’s most famous role to date is in Kubrick’s period black comedy, for which he is most remembered. Characterized by Ryan O’Neal’s blank-faced scoundrel, Vitali plays the resentful, spoiled stepson who, in the story’s climactic showdown, gets his comeuppance from the aforementioned scoundrel.

In spite of the fact that “Barry Lyndon” did not establish Vitali as a regular performer, it did lead to the actor developing a close relationship with Kubrick, who gave Vitali editorial control over the picture after main production had wrapped. In 1980, as Kubrick was working on “The Shining,” he asked Vitali, then in his early 30s, to lend a hand. Vitali is credited as “personal assistant to director” on the classic horror picture.

For the rest of Kubrick’s life, Vitali worked as a casting director and Kubrick’s assistant on films including 1987’s “Full Metal Jacket” and 1999’s “Eyes Wide Shut.” In the latter picture, Vitali played Red Cloak, the disguised head of an aristocratic, orgiastic cult.

Vitali oversaw the restoration of many of Kubrick’s films after the director’s death in 1999. The documentary Filmworker, directed by Tony Zierra, followed him throughout his career in film and explored his friendship with Stanley Kubrick. Filmmaker’s debut feature “Filmworker” debuted at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

After beginning his artistic career in the early 1970s as a guest star on a number of British television series, Vitali graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Vitali’s film career went beyond his association with Kubrick. The 2013 film “Romeo & Juliet” was one of several in which he had a starring part. The two first features credited to director Todd Field’s name include collaborations with Vitali in the roles of technical consultant and associate producer.

Three times in his lifetime, Vitali tied the knot and then promptly broke up with his wife. The children he raised—producer Masha Vitali, actress Vera Vitali, and cameraman Max Vitali—will carry on his legacy.

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