Danny Lloyd, Actor: The Shining. Danny Lloyd was selected for the role of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) because of his ability to concentrate for extended periods of time. You probably don’t know the name Leon Vitali, but the upcoming documentary “Filmworker” hopes to change that forever. Vitali is a British actor who was handpicked by Stanley Kubrick to play the role of Lord Bullingdon in “Barry Lyndon.”. Filmworker Reviews - Metacritic, A Movie and Television News/Commentary Site. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is a documentary about Fred Rogers and viewers should be expected to be wildly emotional by the time the film ends, Richard Brody reviews Tony Zierra’s documentary portrait “Filmworker,” whose subject is Leon Vitali, the longtime right-hand man of the director Stanley Kubrick, Danny Lloyd was selected for the role of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) because of his ability to concentrate for extended periods of time. Because of his age (6) and the genre of The Shining (1980) Danny was closely guarded by Kubrick during filming and didn't know it was a horror film until several years later. Sonny Bunch Movie Reviews & Previews - Rotten Tomatoes, Read Movie and TV reviews from Sonny Bunch on Rotten Tomatoes, where critics reviews are aggregated to tally a Certified Fresh, Fresh or Rotten Tomatometer score, ‘Filmworker’ Trailer: Stanley Kubrick Right Hand Man..