Oliver Reed
Acting
Born 1938-02-13
Died 1999-05-02
Wimbledon, London, England, UK
135 credits
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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".
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Filmography
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The World of Hammer
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Gladiator
The Saint
Film '72
The Word
Tommy
The Third Man
The Three Musketeers
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Masquerade
Oliver!
Treasure Island
The Devils
Christopher Columbus
Celebrity Naked Ambition
The Brood
Women in Love
Return to Lonesome Dove
Funny Bones
The Max Headroom Show
Lion of the Desert
The Four Musketeers
The Prince and the Pauper
Knight Errant Limited
The Trap
Spasms
Burnt Offerings
And Then There Were None
Jeremiah
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
R3
The Big Sleep
The Return of the Musketeers
Two of a Kind
The Pit and the Pendulum
Castaway
The Pirates of Blood River
Gor
The Hunting Party
The Curse of the Werewolf
The League of Gentlemen
Hello London
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Mahler
The Lady and the Highwayman
The Sting II
Condorman
The Bruce
The Assassination Bureau
Venom
Dragonard
The Misfit Brigade
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
Captain Clegg
Lisztomania
Sword of Sherwood Forest
The Best of Max Headroom
The Captain's Table
Sitting Target
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