Oliver Reed
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Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (a film directed by his uncle Carol Reed), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974); the lover and stepfather in Tommy (1975), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000). For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2000. At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted Reed fifth most popular star at the box office. The British Film Institute (BFI) stated that "partnerships with Michael Winner and Ken Russell in the mid-60s saw Reed become an emblematic Brit-flick icon", but from the mid-1970s his alcoholism began affecting his career, with the BFI adding "Reed had assumed Robert Newton's mantle as Britain's thirstiest thespian".
Known for
Credits
Gladiator (2000)
as Proximo
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
as Vulcan
The Three Musketeers (1973)
as Athos
Treasure Island (1990)
as Billy Bones
Tommy (1975)
as Frank
The Devils (1971)
as Father Urbain Grandier
Women in Love (1969)
as Gerald Crich
Hello London (1960)
as Photographer (uncredited)
Lion of the Desert (1981)
as General Rodolfo Graziani
Oliver! (1968)
as Bill Sikes
Celebrity Naked Ambition (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
as Athos
The Sting II (1983)
as Lonnegan
And Then There Were None (1974)
as Hugh Lombard
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
as Cardinal
Fanny Hill (1983)
as Edward Widdlecome
The Brood (1979)
as Dr. Hal Raglan
Gor (1987)
as Sarm
The Bruce (1996)
as Bishop Wisharton
Spasms (1983)
as Jason Kincaid
Funny Bones (1995)
as Dolly Hopkins
Burnt Offerings (1976)
as Ben Rolf
The Trap (1966)
as La Bete
Castaway (1986)
as Gerald Kingsland
Mahler (1974)
as Train Conductor
The Misfit Brigade (1987)
as The General
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
as Chorus Boy (uncredited)
The Prince and the Pauper (1977)
as Miles Hendon
Parting Shots (1999)
as Jamie Campbell-Stewart
Jeremiah (1998)
as General Safan
The Hunting Party (1971)
as Frank Calder
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
as Ivan Dragomiloff
The Lady and the Highwayman (1988)
as Sir Phillip Gage
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
as Leon Corledo
Two of a Kind (1983)
as Beasley
Ransom (1977)
as Nick McCormick
Hired to Kill (1990)
as Michael Bartos
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
as Lord Melton (uncredited)
The Big Sleep (1978)
as Eddie Mars
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)
as The Rajah
Sitting Target (1972)
as Harry Lomart
Lisztomania (1975)
as Princess Carolyn's Servant
The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
as Ali Kahn
Dragonard (1987)
as Captain Shanks
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
as Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
The House of Usher (1989)
as Roderick Usher
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976)
as Joe Knox
L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore") (2002)
Actor
The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
as Pirate Brocaire
The Shuttered Room (1967)
as Ethan
Captain Clegg (1962)
as Harry Cobtree
Venom (1981)
as Dave Averconnelly
The Damned (1962)
as King
Condorman (1981)
as Krokov
Orpheus & Eurydice (2000)
as Narrator
Skeleton Coast (1988)
as Captain Simpson
The Rebel (1961)
as Artist in Cafe
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
as Andrew Quint
The Best of Max Headroom (1987)
as Self
Royal Flash (1975)
as Otto von Bismarck
One Russian Summer (1973)
as Palizyn
The Scarlet Blade (1963)
as Captain Sylvester
The Angry Silence (1960)
as Mick
Hannibal Brooks (1969)
as Brooks
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
The Sell Out (1976)
as Gabriel Lee
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
as Athos
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970)
as Michael Caldwell
Alex Higgins: I'm No Angel (1991)
as Self
The Bulldog Breed (1960)
as Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980)
as Dr. Henry Heckyl/Mr. Hype
Director of Devils (2012)
as Self
Captive Rage (1988)
as General Belmondo
Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
as Jim Wilson
Paranoiac (1963)
as Simon Ashby
The Real Oliver Reed (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
The Revenger (1989)
as Jack Fisher
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' (2005)
as Self
US Against the World (1977)
as Self
Dirty Weekend (1973)
as Fabrizo
Z.P.G. (1972)
as Russ
Always on Sunday (1965)
as Narrator (voice)
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
Prisoner of Honor (1991)
as Gen. de Boisdeffre
Blue Blood (1974)
as Tom the butler
No Love for Johnnie (1961)
as Man with Bucket on His Head (uncredited)
That's Action (1990)
as General Turner (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Jokers (1967)
as David Tremayne
The Square Peg (1958)
as (uncredited)
Master of Dragonard Hill (1987)
as Captain Shanks
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo (1998)
as Captain Cornelius Donovan
The Party's Over (1965)
as Moise
Beat Girl (1960)
as Plaid Shirt
The Captain's Table (1959)
as Suntanning Passenger (uncredited)
A Touch of the Sun (1979)
as Captain Daniel Nelson
The System (1964)
as Tinker
Severed Ties (1992)
as Dr. Hans Vaughan
Revolver (1973)
as Vito Cipriani
Russian Roulette - Moscow 95 (1995)
Actor
Black Arrow (1985)
as Sir Brackley
Clash of Loyalties (1983)
as Colonel Leachman
The Triple Echo (1972)
as Arthur, the Sergeant
Luise knackt den Jackpot (1995)
as Matthias
Rage to Kill (1988)
as General Turner
Take a Girl Like You (1970)
as Patrick Standish
Dante's Inferno (1967)
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The World of Hammer: Vamp (1994)
as Narrator (voice)
The Debussy Film (1965)
as Claude Debussy
Value for Money (1955)
as Extra (uncredited)
Captive (1986)
as Gregory Le Vay
His and Hers (1961)
as Oliver Borlinski
The World of Hammer: Wicked Women (1994)
as Narrator (voice)
Superbrain (1996)
as Professor Norbert Marcus
The Devils Original on-set footage (2012)
Actor
Hellraisers (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
Life Is a Circus (1960)
as Spectator at Sideshow (uncredited)
The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1978)
as Terence Sutton
The World of Hammer: Chiller (1994)
as narrator
Panama Sugar (1990)
as Generale
Blind Justice (1988)
as Ian Ballinger
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time (1994)
as Narrator
The World of Hammer: Trials of War (1994)
as Narrator