Oliver Reed
Biography
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".
Acting (114 movies)
Gladiator
2000
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960
The Big Sleep
1978
The Three Musketeers
1973
Revolver
1973
And Then There Were None
1974
The Misfit Brigade
1987
The Prince and the Pauper
1977
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970
Tommy
1975
Venom
1981
The Devils
1971
The Four Musketeers
1974
Jeremiah
1998
Two of a Kind
1983
Hannibal Brooks
1969
Treasure Island
1990
Lion Of The Desert
1981
Burnt Offerings
1976
The Curse of the Werewolf
1961
Funny Bones
1995
The Brood
1979
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
The Party's Over
1965
Paranoiac
1963
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
The Sting II
1983
Beat Girl
1960
The Triple Echo
1972
The Hunting Party
1971
Women in Love
1969
Oliver!
1968
The House of Usher
1989
Tomorrow Never Comes
1978
Lisztomania
1975
The Pit and the Pendulum
1991
Condorman
1981
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976
Captain Clegg
1962
Z.P.G.
1972
Skeleton Coast
1988
The Assassination Bureau
1969
The Damned
1962
The Trap
1966
Castaway
1986
Sitting Target
1972
Royal Flash
1975
The Scarlet Blade
1963
The Brigand of Kandahar
1965
Captive Rage
1988
The Angry Silence
1960
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980
The Shuttered Room
1967
The Pirates of Blood River
1962
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo
1998
Fanny Hill
1983
Hired to Kill
1990
Gor
1987
The Lady and the Highwayman
1988
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990
Spasms
1983
The Real Oliver Reed
2000
US Against the World
1977
Hellraisers
2000
The Sell Out
1976
The Square Peg
1958
The Revenger
1989
The Jokers
1967
Dante's Inferno
1967
Sword of Sherwood Forest
1960
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967
The System
1964
Take a Girl Like You
1970
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979
Prisoner of Honor
1991
Dragonard
1987
Captive
1986
Blue Blood
1974
Superbrain
1996
Ransom
1977
His and Hers
1961
Rage to Kill
1988
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time
1994
The Bruce
1996
Black Arrow
1985
Dirty Weekend
1973
One Russian Summer
1973
The Debussy Film
1965
Director of Devils
2012
Master of Dragonard Hill
1987
Severed Ties
1992
A Touch of the Sun
1979
Clash of Loyalties
1983
Blind Justice
1988
The World of Hammer: Wicked Women
1994
The World of Hammer: Vamp
1994
Parting Shots
1999
The Bulldog Breed
1960
That's Action
1990
Always on Sunday
1965
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