It was the same film director Stanley Kubrick who has communicated through social networks the death of actor Leon Vitale, personal advisor in many of his projects and interpreter in the famous ‘Barry Lyndon’. “With the greatest sadness we announce that the one who was the pillar of a large number of Kubrick productions has passed away,” he says on his Twitter account.
It is with the greatest of sadness that we have to tell you that the mainstay of a vast number of Kubrick’s films, Leon Vitali, passed away peacefully last night. Our thoughts are with his family of him and all that new and loved him.
26 July 1948 – 20 August 2022 pic.twitter.com/uE0Q1KvQi1—Stanley Kubrick (@StanleyKubrick) August 21, 2022
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The 74-year-old English actor brilliantly played Lord Bullingdon in ‘Barry Lyndon’ before becoming Kubrick’s personal assistant, according to ‘Variety’.
In this sense, he was involved in the production of ‘The Shining’, and also in the creative processes and the casting of actors for other emblematic Kubrick films such as ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.