Stanley Kubrick is a director.
Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period drama film written , produced , and directed by Stanley Kubrick , based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray . Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb . Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick . Stanley Kubrick . After working as a photographer for Look magazine in the late 1940s and early 1950s , he began making short films on a shoestring budget , and made his first major Hollywood film , The Killing , for United Artists in 1956 . The Killing is a 1956 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by James B. Harris .