Oliver Reed
Acting
🎂 1938-02-13
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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Reed, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(132)
Self
1962
Joe Catelli
1962
Aristides Koralis
1962
Pepi
1959
Gregor Dunnigan
1993
Wolfen
1983
Martin Pinzon
1985
Proximo
2000
Narrator
1994
Self
1985
1964
Gerald Kingsland
1986
Vulcan
1988
Athos
1973
Bill Sikes
1968
Athos
1974
Dr. Hal Raglan
1979
Cardinal
1991
Gen. Rodolfo Graziani
1981
Ivan Dragomiloff
1969
Frank
1975
Father Urbain Grandier
1971
Frank Calder
1971
Chorus Boy (uncredited)
1960
Eddie Mars
1978
Hugh Lombard
1974
Edward Widdlecome
1983
Billy Bones
1990
Plaid Shirt
1960
Miles Hendon
1977
Dave Averconnelly
1981
Leon Corledo
1961
Vito Cipriani
1973
Beasley
1983
Ben Rolf
1976
General Safan
1998
Gerald Crich
1969
Train Conductor
1974
Moise
1965
Ethan
1967
David Tremayne
1967
Mick
1960
Athos
1989
King
1962
Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
1960
Dolly Hopkins
1995
Sir Phillip Gage
1988
Princess Carolyn's Servant
1975
Artist in Cafe
1961
Krokov
1981
Lonnegan
1983
Otto von Bismarck
1975
Nick McCormick
1977
Lord Melton (uncredited)
1960
Brooks
1969
(uncredited)
1958
Sarm
1987
La Bete
1966
Michael Bartos
1990
Russ
1972
Tinker
1964
Jamie Campbell-Stewart
1999
Joe Knox
1976
Harry Cobtree
1962
Dr. Henry Heckyl/Mr. Hype
1980
General Belmondo
1988
(archive footage)
2002
Train Passenger (uncredited)
1959
Pirate Brocaire
1962
Sir Brackley
1985
The General
1987
Tom the butler
1974
Self
1977
Arthur, the Sergeant
1972
Man with Bucket on His Head (uncredited)
1961
Ali Kahn
1965
Gabriel Lee
1976
Self (Archival footage)
2005
The Rajah
1990
Fabrizo
1973
Self (archive footage)
1999
Jason Kincaid
1983
Captain Simpson
1988
Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
1960
Dr. Hans Vaughan
1992
Michael Caldwell
1970
Harry Lomart
1972
Jim Wilson
1978
Terence Sutton
1979
Andrew Quint
1967
Captain Cornelius Donovan
1998
Roderick Usher
1989
Extra (uncredited)
1955
Generale
1990
Self (archive footage)
2000
General Turner (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
General Turner
1988
Gregory Le Vay
1986
Patrick Standish
1970
Simon Ashby
1963
Poet
1961
Captain Sylvester
1963
Spectator at Sideshow (uncredited)
1960
Colonel Leachman
1983
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1967
1979
Ian Ballinger
1988
Matthias
1995
Self
1987
Captain Shanks
1987
Captain Shanks
1987
Bishop Wisharton
1996
Palizyn
1973
2002
Jack Fisher
1989
Self
2005
Gen. de Boisdeffre
1991
1995
narrator
1994
Narrator (voice)
1994
Self (archive footage)
2000
Professor Norbert Marcus
1996
Suntanning Passenger (uncredited)
1959
Claude Debussy
1965
Narrator
2000
Photographer (uncredited)
1960
Narrator (voice)
1994
Narrator (voice)
1965
Self
2012
Narrator
1994
2012
Narrator
1994