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