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