Vitaly began his career as an actor in the early 1970s
Director Stanley Kubrick’s partner Leon Vitali has died aged 74.
The director’s official Twitter channel said in a tweet: “It is with great sadness that we have to tell you that the mainstay of a huge number of Kubrick’s films, Leon Vitali, passed away last night. Our thoughts are with his family and all who knew and loved him.”
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 and all that new and loved him.
26 July 1948 – 20 August 2022 pic.twitter.com/uE0Q1KvQi1— Stanley Kubrick (@StanleyKubrick) August 21, 2022
Vitali began his acting career in the early 1970s, with small roles in various television hits such as ‘Z Cars’, ‘Van der Valk’ and ‘Dixon of Dock Green’.
In 1974, he met Stanley Kubrick and was offered the role of Lord Bullingdon in the director’s film ‘Barry Lyndon’.
The film is far less famous today than A Swirling Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining, but it won four Academy Awards and was nominated for three more, more than any other Kubrick film.
It was the start of a partnership that would see Vitali act as Kubrick’s assistant on a number of further films, including the Golden Globe-nominated Eyes Tight and the Oscar-nominated Full Metal Jacket, as well as The Shining ».
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