Alfred Leon Vitali (26 July 1948 – 19 August 2022)[3] was an English actor best known for his collaborations with film director Stanley Kubrick, as his personal assistant,[4] and most notably as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon.

[5] As he was growing up, Vitali became interested in drama and decided to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after his English teacher sent him a prospectus.

In 1973, he made his feature film debut in two movies: the Italian Super Bitch, directed by Massimo Dallamano, who had previously worked with Sergio Leone as a cinematographer in the first two of his Dollars Trilogy, and the television film Catholics, alongside Martin Sheen and Michael Gambon.

[citation needed] Five years later, Kubrick sent Vitali a copy of Stephen King's The Shining and asked him to join the production of his next film.

In the film, the words "fashion designer Leon Vitali" appear in a newspaper article that Tom Cruise's character reads.