Leon Vitali, an actor in Barry Lyndon who went on to become director Stanley Kubrick’s right-hand man, died Friday in Los Angeles at age 74. His family confirmed his death to Associated Press, but no cause was given.
“Leon was a special and lovely man driven by his curiosity, who spread love and warmth wherever he went,” his children said in a statement provided by his daughter, Masha Vitali. “He will be remembered with love and be hugely missed by the many people he touched.”
Vitali was profiled in the 2017 documentary Filmworker, which spotlighted his contributions to Kubrick’ work. Filmmaker Tony Zierra’s noted that Vitali did everything from casting and coaching actors to overseeing restorations.
His duties went so far as to once setting up a video monitor so that Kubrick could keep an eye on his dying cat.
Matthew Modine, who starred in Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket,...
“Leon was a special and lovely man driven by his curiosity, who spread love and warmth wherever he went,” his children said in a statement provided by his daughter, Masha Vitali. “He will be remembered with love and be hugely missed by the many people he touched.”
Vitali was profiled in the 2017 documentary Filmworker, which spotlighted his contributions to Kubrick’ work. Filmmaker Tony Zierra’s noted that Vitali did everything from casting and coaching actors to overseeing restorations.
His duties went so far as to once setting up a video monitor so that Kubrick could keep an eye on his dying cat.
Matthew Modine, who starred in Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket,...
- 8/21/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The iconic twins from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining are all grown up, but have retained the aura that made them unforgettable in the 1980 classic film.
Louise and Lisa Burns, now 51, were 12 years old when they were cast to star as a pair of twins that were murdered in the Overlook Hotel and whose ghosts are witnessed by the film’s protagonist, Danny.
“We’re naturally spooky,” the twins told Cosmopolitan. “But we did practice our timing — saying things in unison — and we worked on saying our lines in a hollow, other-worldly kind of way a number of times.”
The...
Louise and Lisa Burns, now 51, were 12 years old when they were cast to star as a pair of twins that were murdered in the Overlook Hotel and whose ghosts are witnessed by the film’s protagonist, Danny.
“We’re naturally spooky,” the twins told Cosmopolitan. “But we did practice our timing — saying things in unison — and we worked on saying our lines in a hollow, other-worldly kind of way a number of times.”
The...
- 10/31/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
The 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will stray away from the traditional red carpet. Instead, the nominees, presenters and guests will arrive to the 2019 SAG Awards on a silver carpet, designed to mimic the color of aluminum foil.
The new carpet color is a nod to the SAG Awards partnership with Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, in celebration of the ceremony's silver anniversary.
"We are thrilled to bring our iconic Reynolds Wrap silver to life in such a distinctive way," Reynolds Consumer Products vp marketing Lisa Burns said in a statement.
Reynolds Wrap is presenting the ...
The new carpet color is a nod to the SAG Awards partnership with Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, in celebration of the ceremony's silver anniversary.
"We are thrilled to bring our iconic Reynolds Wrap silver to life in such a distinctive way," Reynolds Consumer Products vp marketing Lisa Burns said in a statement.
Reynolds Wrap is presenting the ...
- 1/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will stray away from the traditional red carpet. Instead, the nominees, presenters and guests will arrive to the 2019 SAG Awards on a silver carpet, designed to mimic the color of aluminum foil.
The new carpet color is a nod to the SAG Awards partnership with Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, in celebration of the ceremony's silver anniversary.
"We are thrilled to bring our iconic Reynolds Wrap silver to life in such a distinctive way," Reynolds Consumer Products vp marketing Lisa Burns said in a statement.
Reynolds Wrap is presenting the ...
The new carpet color is a nod to the SAG Awards partnership with Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, in celebration of the ceremony's silver anniversary.
"We are thrilled to bring our iconic Reynolds Wrap silver to life in such a distinctive way," Reynolds Consumer Products vp marketing Lisa Burns said in a statement.
Reynolds Wrap is presenting the ...
- 1/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Leon Vitali, who played Lord Bullingdon, on Stanley Kubrick: "We had taken a walk when we were filming. It was like a whistle-stop tour of every Stately Home in England, it seemed like, when we were filming Barry Lyndon." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the final installment of my conversation on the afternoon of the première in New York of Tony Zierra's Filmworker, Leon Vitali reveals that Stanley Kubrick was "nuts for animals", that the ballroom used in Barry Lyndon was "full of Joshua Reynolds' and Van Dykes", and that a scene they called the "Masked Ball" was filmed in the home of Lord Carnarvon, who discovered the Tutankhamun tomb.
We speak about Kubrick, the photographer, a secret nostalgia, the casting of the twins Lisa Burns and Louise Burns for The Shining, Diane Arbus and Bruno Dumont's Jeannette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc.
Leon Vitali on Stanley Kubrick,...
In the final installment of my conversation on the afternoon of the première in New York of Tony Zierra's Filmworker, Leon Vitali reveals that Stanley Kubrick was "nuts for animals", that the ballroom used in Barry Lyndon was "full of Joshua Reynolds' and Van Dykes", and that a scene they called the "Masked Ball" was filmed in the home of Lord Carnarvon, who discovered the Tutankhamun tomb.
We speak about Kubrick, the photographer, a secret nostalgia, the casting of the twins Lisa Burns and Louise Burns for The Shining, Diane Arbus and Bruno Dumont's Jeannette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc.
Leon Vitali on Stanley Kubrick,...
- 5/17/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"Come play with us ... forever and ever and ever."Those words creep out even the most diehard horror fans, thanks to Louise and Lisa Burns' portrayal of the Grady Twins in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 classic "The Shining."And while the two blood-stained little girls will forever haunt the halls of the Overlook Hotel, the women who played them disappeared from the entertainment biz following the flick.With the film's 35th anniversary coming up next year, toofab's Brian Particelli tracked down the kooky 40-somethings for one awesome Skype session -- where they looked back at the film's enduring legacy, talked about some wild fan interactions and revealed if they've ever slipped into those infamous blue dress in the decades since the flick's release."Stanley Kubrick's work, it goes on and on and on. He made so many movies and people come back to them," Louise tells toofab. "It's not...
- 10/29/2014
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
The brief scenes in which Danny Torrence encounters The Grady Sisters haunting the halls of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, are not only considered some of the scariest moments in that film, but some of the most ghastly images ever shot. One can only imagine what it must've been like for real-life twins Louise and Lisa Burns, who in their girlhoods, were the stuff nightmares were made of for an entire adult world. Perhaps nobody understands this experience better than Sheryl Lee, or, as the world knows her, Laura Palmer, of David Lynch's TV phenomenon Twin Peaks. For years, the mysterious murder of Laura Palmer and the identity of her killer, were the biggest subjects on the pop culture landscape, thanks to...
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- 9/9/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Louisa and Lisa Burns, who played the now-iconic twins in Stanely Kubrick's The Shining, attended a film screening at the BFI in London yesterday (January 29).
Do you recognise the @Shining_twins? Special guests at our anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove pic.twitter.com/5x0DLPiPrq
— BFI (@BFI) January 28, 2014The Shining review: Extended cut packs in more psychological terror
The Shining's Maze of Meaning: Room 237 and the extended cut
The twin sisters have kept a low profile since the film's release back in 1980 but happily posed for a picture on the red carpet as they arrived for the screening of Kubrick's Dr Strangelove as part of the Loco London Comedy Film Festival.
We've found 10 other former child stars from iconic horror flicks to see what they look like now, and what they went on to do next:
Linda Blair in The Exorcist
Linda Blair starred as the head-spinning,...
Do you recognise the @Shining_twins? Special guests at our anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove pic.twitter.com/5x0DLPiPrq
— BFI (@BFI) January 28, 2014The Shining review: Extended cut packs in more psychological terror
The Shining's Maze of Meaning: Room 237 and the extended cut
The twin sisters have kept a low profile since the film's release back in 1980 but happily posed for a picture on the red carpet as they arrived for the screening of Kubrick's Dr Strangelove as part of the Loco London Comedy Film Festival.
We've found 10 other former child stars from iconic horror flicks to see what they look like now, and what they went on to do next:
Linda Blair in The Exorcist
Linda Blair starred as the head-spinning,...
- 1/30/2014
- Digital Spy
Louisa and Lisa Burns, who played the now-iconic twins in Stanely Kubrick's The Shining, attended a film screening at the BFI in London yesterday (January 29).
The twin sisters have kept a low profile since the film's release back in 1980 but happily posed for a picture on the red carpet as they arrived for the screening of Kubrick's Dr Strangelove as part of the Loco London Comedy Film Festival.
We've found 10 other former child stars from iconic horror flicks to see what they look like now, and what they went on to do next:
Linda Blair in The Exorcist
Linda Blair starred as the head-spinning, projectile-vomiting and crucifix-stabbing child in 1973's controversial The Exorcist.
A few years after the film's release, Blair encountered trouble with the law when charged with possession of drugs and conspiracy to sell. She managed to turn her career around by the early '80s, going on...
The twin sisters have kept a low profile since the film's release back in 1980 but happily posed for a picture on the red carpet as they arrived for the screening of Kubrick's Dr Strangelove as part of the Loco London Comedy Film Festival.
We've found 10 other former child stars from iconic horror flicks to see what they look like now, and what they went on to do next:
Linda Blair in The Exorcist
Linda Blair starred as the head-spinning, projectile-vomiting and crucifix-stabbing child in 1973's controversial The Exorcist.
A few years after the film's release, Blair encountered trouble with the law when charged with possession of drugs and conspiracy to sell. She managed to turn her career around by the early '80s, going on...
- 1/30/2014
- Digital Spy
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