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