Oliver Reed
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".
134 acting credits
Acting · 134
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Saint
1962
Gladiator
2000
Film '72
1971
The Third Man
1959
The World of Hammer
1994
Masquerade
1983
Return to Lonesome Dove
1993
The Devils
1971
The Max Headroom Show
1985
Oliver!
1968
The Three Musketeers
1973
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
The Brood
1979
Tommy
1975
Burnt Offerings
1976
Treasure Island
1990
Christopher Columbus
1985
Women in Love
1969
The Four Musketeers
1974
Lion of the Desert
1981
The Prince and the Pauper
1977
And Then There Were None
1974
The Big Sleep
1978
Two of a Kind
1983
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
Gor
1987
R3
1964
The Assassination Bureau
1969
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
Castaway
1986
Venom
1981
Knight Errant Limited
1959
Lisztomania
1975
Parting Shots
1999
The Misfit Brigade
1987
The Sting II
1983
Jeremiah
1998
Beat Girl
1960
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
The Hunting Party
1971
Royal Flash
1975
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960
Sitting Target
1972
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo
1998
The System
1964
Z.P.G.
1972
Mahler
1974
Captain Clegg
1962
The Curse of the Werewolf
1961
Revolver
1973
The Pit and the Pendulum
1991
His and Hers
1961
The Jokers
1967
The Rebel
1961
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970
Condorman
1981
Fanny Hill
1983
The Trap
1966
Sword of Sherwood Forest
1960
The League of Gentlemen
1960
Ransom
1977
One Russian Summer
1973
Living Famously
2002
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976
Skeleton Coast
1988
The Damned
1962
The Pirates of Blood River
1962
Spasms
1983
Hannibal Brooks
1969
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999
Captive Rage
1988
Funny Bones
1995
The Party's Over
1965
US Against the World
1977
The House of Usher
1989
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967
The Triple Echo
1972
The Scarlet Blade
1963
The Bulldog Breed
1960
The Lady and the Highwayman
1988
The Shuttered Room
1967
Black Arrow
1985
Prisoner of Honor
1991
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980
Dragonard
1987
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959
The Best of Max Headroom
1987
The Angry Silence
1960
The Revenger
1989
The Sell Out
1976
No Love for Johnnie
1961
L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")
2002
Rage to Kill
1988
Paranoiac
1963
Hired to Kill
1990
Tomorrow Never Comes
1978
Value for Money
1955
The Square Peg
1958
Blue Blood
1974
Captive
1986
Dirty Weekend
1973
The Bruce
1996
The Brigand of Kandahar
1965
Clash of Loyalties
1983
Blind Justice
1988
That's Action
1990
Dante's Inferno
1967
Take a Girl Like You
1970
The Captain's Table
1959
Russian Roulette - Moscow 95
1995
Hellraisers
2000
Severed Ties
1992
Hello London
1960
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1978
Luise knackt den Jackpot
1995
Master of Dragonard Hill
1987
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990
Life Is a Circus
1960
The Real Oliver Reed
2000
The World of Hammer: Chiller
1994
The World of Hammer: Vamp
1994
Panama Sugar
1990
The Debussy Film
1965
Orpheus & Eurydice
2000
A Touch of the Sun
1979
The World of Hammer: Trials of War
1994
The World of Hammer: Wicked Women
1994
Superbrain
1996
The Devils Original on-set footage
2012
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time
1994
Director of Devils
2012
Always on Sunday
1965
Alex Higgins: I'm No Angel
1991