Oliver Reed
Acting
1938-02-13 · Wimbledon, London, England, UK
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".
Filmography
Director of Devils
2012 · Movie
The Devils Original on-set footage
2012 · Movie
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005 · Movie
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003 · Movie
Living Famously
2002 · Series
L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")
2002 · Movie
Orpheus & Eurydice
2000 · Movie
Hellraisers
2000 · Movie
Gladiator
2000 · Movie
The Real Oliver Reed
2000 · Movie
Parting Shots
1999 · Movie
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999 · Movie
Jeremiah
1998 · Movie
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo
1998 · Movie
The Bruce
1996 · Movie
Superbrain
1996 · Movie
Funny Bones
1995 · Movie
Russian Roulette - Moscow 95
1995 · Movie
Luise knackt den Jackpot
1995 · Movie
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time
1994 · Movie
The World of Hammer: Chiller
1994 · Movie
The World of Hammer: Trials of War
1994 · Movie
The World of Hammer: Wicked Women
1994 · Movie
The World of Hammer: Vamp
1994 · Movie
The World of Hammer
1994 · Series
Return to Lonesome Dove
1993 · Series
Severed Ties
1992 · Movie
Prisoner of Honor
1991 · Movie
The Pit and the Pendulum
1991 · Movie
Alex Higgins: I'm No Angel
1991 · Movie
That's Action
1990 · Movie
The Word
1990 · Series
Treasure Island
1990 · Movie
Panama Sugar
1990 · Movie
Hired to Kill
1990 · Movie
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990 · Movie
The House of Usher
1989 · Movie
The Return of the Musketeers
1989 · Movie
The Revenger
1989 · Movie
Captive Rage
1988 · Movie
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988 · Movie
The Lady and the Highwayman
1988 · Movie
Rage to Kill
1988 · Movie
Skeleton Coast
1988 · Movie
Blind Justice
1988 · Movie
The Misfit Brigade
1987 · Movie
Master of Dragonard Hill
1987 · Movie
Dragonard
1987 · Movie
Gor
1987 · Movie
The Best of Max Headroom
1987 · Movie
Captive
1986 · Movie
Castaway
1986 · Movie
Black Arrow
1985 · Movie
The Max Headroom Show
1985 · Series
Christopher Columbus
1985 · Series
Masquerade
1983 · Series
Two of a Kind
1983 · Movie
Spasms
1983 · Movie
The Sting II
1983 · Movie
Clash of Loyalties
1983 · Movie
Fanny Hill
1983 · Movie
Venom
1981 · Movie
Condorman
1981 · Movie
Lion of the Desert
1981 · Movie
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980 · Movie
A Touch of the Sun
1979 · Movie
The Brood
1979 · Movie
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1978 · Movie
The Big Sleep
1978 · Movie
Tomorrow Never Comes
1978 · Movie
US Against the World
1977 · Movie
The Prince and the Pauper
1977 · Movie
Ransom
1977 · Movie
Burnt Offerings
1976 · Movie
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976 · Movie
The Sell Out
1976 · Movie
Royal Flash
1975 · Movie
Lisztomania
1975 · Movie
Tommy
1975 · Movie
Blue Blood
1974 · Movie
The Four Musketeers
1974 · Movie
And Then There Were None
1974 · Movie
Mahler
1974 · Movie
The Three Musketeers
1973 · Movie
Revolver
1973 · Movie
Dirty Weekend
1973 · Movie
One Russian Summer
1973 · Movie
The Triple Echo
1972 · Movie
Z.P.G.
1972 · Movie
Sitting Target
1972 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
The Devils
1971 · Movie
The Hunting Party
1971 · Movie
Take a Girl Like You
1970 · Movie
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 · Movie
Women in Love
1969 · Movie
The Assassination Bureau
1969 · Movie
Hannibal Brooks
1969 · Movie
Oliver!
1968 · Movie
Dante's Inferno
1967 · Movie
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967 · Movie
The Shuttered Room
1967 · Movie
The Jokers
1967 · Movie
The Trap
1966 · Movie
The Brigand of Kandahar
1965 · Movie
Always on Sunday
1965 · Movie
The Debussy Film
1965 · Movie
The Party's Over
1965 · Movie
R3
1964 · Series
The System
1964 · Movie
The Scarlet Blade
1963 · Movie
Paranoiac
1963 · Movie
The Damned
1962 · Movie
The Saint
1962 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
Captain Clegg
1962 · Movie
The Pirates of Blood River
1962 · Movie
The Curse of the Werewolf
1961 · Movie
The Rebel
1961 · Movie
No Love for Johnnie
1961 · Movie
His and Hers
1961 · Movie
Sword of Sherwood Forest
1960 · Movie
The Bulldog Breed
1960 · Movie
Hello London
1960 · Movie
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960 · Movie
Beat Girl
1960 · Movie
The League of Gentlemen
1960 · Movie
The Angry Silence
1960 · Movie
Life Is a Circus
1960 · Movie
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959 · Movie
Knight Errant Limited
1959 · Series
The Third Man
1959 · Series
The Captain's Table
1959 · Movie
The Square Peg
1958 · Movie
Monitor
1958 · Series
Value for Money
1955 · Movie