Born on this day – William Makepeace Thackeray:

Writer

Illustrator

July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863

Credits:

Books:

A Cairo Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing (2013); A Little Dinner at Timmin's (2001); A Shabby Genteel Story (1985); Ballads (1855); Burlesques (1856); Catherine (1840); Christmas Books (1868); Contributions to the Morning Chronicle (1955); Cox's Diary (2004); Denis Duval (1864); Doctor Birch and His Young Friends (2004); Early and Late Papers (2019); Eastern Sketches (1846); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Essays on Goldsmith by Scott, Macaulay, and Thackeray, and Selections From his Writings (2016); George Cruikshank (1840); Jeames's Diary (2016); Legend of the Rhine (1845); Letters to an American Family (2003); Little Travels and Roadside Sketches (1879); London Stories (2013); Loose Sketches (2007); Lovel the Widower (2018); Men's Wives (1852); Miscellanies (2015); Mr. Brown's Letters to a Young Man about Town (2002); Mrs. Perkins's Ball (2004); Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1846); Novels By Eminent Hands (2004); Our Street (1848); Reading a Poem (2015); Rebecca and Rowena (1850); Roundabout Papers (1863); Selected Letters Of William Makepeace Thackeray (1996); Sketches and Travels in London (2018); Some Roundabout Papers (1863); Stories of Comedy (2017); Sulton Stork (1887); Thackerayana (1970); The Adventures of Philip (1862); The Awful History of Bluebeard (2019); The Bedford-Row Conspiracy (1856); The Book of Snobs (1848); The Bridgerthonian Novels (2022); The English Humorists Of The Eighteenth Century (2019); The English Humourists (1861); The Fatal Boots (2001); The Fitz-Boodle Papers (1842); The Four Georges (2019); The Great Hoggarty Diamond (1848); The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance (2023); The Heroic Adventures of M. Boudin (1984); The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (1852); The History of Pendennis (1848); The History of Samuel Titmarsh (2017); The Hitherto Unpublished Contributions of W.M. Thackeray to Punch (1971); The Irish Sketch-Book (1843); The Letters And Private Papers Of William Makepeace Thackeray (1980); The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories (1909); The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844); The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush (1837); The Newcomes (1855); The Notch On The Ax (2004); The Paris Sketch Book (1840); The Rose and the Ring (1855); The Second Funeral of Napoleon (1841); The Story of Mary Ancel (1840); The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan (1855); The Virginians (1859); Vanity Fair (1847).

Movies and television:

Aus dem Bücherschrank geholt (1962); Barry Lyndon (1975); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950); Becky Sharp (1935); CBS Television Workshop (1952); De broodwinning van Frederic Altamont (1962); George Warrington's Escape (1911); Hora once (1971); Jackanory (1975); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); La feria de las vanidades (1975); La fiera della vanità (1967); Novela (1963); One Woman's Story (1953); Pendennis (1916); Pierscien i róza (1987); Poetry fugacious (2019); Ruze a prsten (1971); Secrets from the Asylum (2014); Television Theater (1956); Tense Moments with Great Authors / Segment: Vanity Fair (1922); The Rose and the Ring (1953 / 1979); Vanity Fair (1911 / 1915 / 1922 / 1923 / 1932 / 1961 / 1967 / 1976 / 1987 / 1998 / 2004 / 2018); Vanity Fair / TV Series (1956–1957); Your Favorite Story (1954).

On this day in movie history - Barry Lyndon (1975)

Barry Lyndon

directed and written by Stanley Kubrick,

based on the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray,

was released in the United States on December 18, 1975.

Music by Leonard Rosenman and Ralph Ferraro.

Main theme Sarabande by George Frideric Handel.

Women of Ireland, by Peadar Ó Doirnín and Seán Ó Riada,

performed by The Chieftains.

Cast:

Michael Hordern, Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Gay Hamilton, Godfrey Quigley, Steven Berkoff, Marie Kean, Murray Melvin, Frank Middlemass, Leon Vitali, Dominic Savage, Leonard Rossiter, André Morell, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, David Morley, Diana Koerner, Arthur O'Sullivan, Billy Boyle, Jonathan Cecil, Peter Cellier, Geoffrey Chater, Wolf Kahler, Liam Redmond, Roger Booth, Ferdy Mayne, John Sharp, Pat Roach, Hans Meyer.