Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 13, 1938
Died
May 02, 1999
Place of Birth
Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Credits
135 titles
Oliver Reed
Biography
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
Filmography
Director of Devils
Self
The Devils Original on-set footage
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Self
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
Living Famously
(archive footage)
L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")
Orpheus & Eurydice
Narrator
Hellraisers
Self (archive footage)
Gladiator
Proximo
The Real Oliver Reed
Self (archive footage)
Parting Shots
Jamie Campbell-Stewart
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Self (archive footage)
Jeremiah
General Safan
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo
Captain Cornelius Donovan
The Bruce
Bishop Wisharton
Superbrain
Professor Norbert Marcus
Funny Bones
Dolly Hopkins
Russian Roulette - Moscow 95
Luise knackt den Jackpot
Matthias
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time
Narrator
The World of Hammer: Chiller
narrator
The World of Hammer: Trials of War
Narrator
The World of Hammer: Wicked Women
Narrator (voice)
The World of Hammer: Vamp
Narrator (voice)
The World of Hammer
Narrator
Return to Lonesome Dove
Gregor Dunnigan
Severed Ties
Dr. Hans Vaughan
Prisoner of Honor
Gen. de Boisdeffre
The Pit and the Pendulum
Cardinal
Alex Higgins: I'm No Angel
Self
That's Action
General Turner (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Word
Treasure Island
Billy Bones
Panama Sugar
Generale
Hired to Kill
Michael Bartos
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
The Rajah
The House of Usher
Roderick Usher
The Return of the Musketeers
Athos
The Revenger
Jack Fisher
Captive Rage
General Belmondo
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Vulcan
The Lady and the Highwayman
Sir Phillip Gage
Rage to Kill
General Turner
Skeleton Coast
Captain Simpson
Blind Justice
Ian Ballinger
The Misfit Brigade
The General
Master of Dragonard Hill
Captain Shanks
Dragonard
Captain Shanks
Gor
Sarm
The Best of Max Headroom
Self