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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Reed, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Wimbledon, London, England, UK, 1938-02-13

Died: 1999-05-02

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Value for Money	Extra (uncredited)	66
2	1958	The Square Peg	(uncredited)	63
3	1959	The Captain's Table	Suntanning Passenger (uncredited)	58
4	1959	Upstairs and Downstairs	Train Passenger (uncredited)	52
5	1960	Life Is a Circus	Spectator at Sideshow (uncredited)	60
6	1960	The Angry Silence	Mick	71
7	1960	The League of Gentlemen	Chorus Boy (uncredited)	70
8	1960	Beat Girl	Plaid Shirt	58
9	1960	The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll	Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)	61
10	1960	Hello London	Photographer (uncredited)	50
11	1960	The Bulldog Breed	Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)	57
12	1960	Sword of Sherwood Forest	Lord Melton (uncredited)	60
13	1961	His and Hers	Poet	49
14	1961	No Love for Johnnie	Man with Bucket on His Head (uncredited)	55
15	1961	The Rebel	Artist in Cafe	78
16	1961	The Curse of the Werewolf	Leon Corledo	65
17	1962	The Pirates of Blood River	Pirate Brocaire	62
18	1962	Captain Clegg	Harry Cobtree	62
19	1962	The Damned	King	63
20	1963	Paranoiac	Simon Ashby	67
21	1963	The Scarlet Blade	Captain Sylvester	55
22	1964	The System	Tinker	63
23	1965	The Party's Over	Moise	66
24	1965	The Debussy Film	Claude Debussy	76
25	1965	Always on Sunday	Narrator (voice)	60
26	1965	The Brigand of Kandahar	Ali Kahn	53
27	1966	The Trap	La Bete	71
28	1967	The Jokers	David Tremayne	60
29	1967	The Shuttered Room	Ethan	61
30	1967	I'll Never Forget What's'isname	Andrew Quint	56
31	1967	Dante's Inferno	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	68
32	1968	Oliver!	Bill Sikes	70
33	1969	Hannibal Brooks	Brooks	64
34	1969	The Assassination Bureau	Ivan Dragomiloff	64
35	1969	Women in Love	Gerald Crich	65
36	1970	The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun	Michael Caldwell	51
37	1970	Take a Girl Like You	Patrick Standish	55
38	1971	The Devils	Father Urbain Grandier	75
39	1971	The Hunting Party	Frank Calder	62
40	1972	Sitting Target	Harry Lomart	60
41	1972	Z.P.G.	Russ	61
42	1972	The Triple Echo	Arthur, the Sergeant	63
43	1973	One Russian Summer	Palizyn	68
44	1973	Dirty Weekend	Fabrizo	53
45	1973	Revolver	Vito Cipriani	68
46	1973	The Three Musketeers	Athos	68
47	1974	Mahler	Train Conductor	67
48	1974	And Then There Were None	Hugh Lombard	57
49	1974	The Four Musketeers	Athos	64
50	1974	Blue Blood	Tom the butler	45
51	1975	Tommy	Frank	65
52	1975	Lisztomania	Princess Carolyn's Servant	59
53	1975	Royal Flash	Otto von Bismarck	60
54	1976	The Sell Out	Gabriel Lee	52
55	1976	The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday	Joe Knox	50
56	1976	Burnt Offerings	Ben Rolf	65
57	1977	The Ransom	Nick McCormick	69
58	1977	The Prince and the Pauper	Miles Hendon	61
59	1977	US Against the World	Self	0
60	1978	Tomorrow Never Comes	Jim Wilson	58
61	1978	The Big Sleep	Eddie Mars	59
62	1979	A Touch of the Sun		35
63	1979	The Class Of Miss MacMichael	Terence Sutton	58
64	1979	The Brood	Dr. Hal Raglan	67
65	1980	Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype	Dr. Henry Heckyl/Mr. Hype	50
66	1981	Lion of the Desert	Gen. Rodolfo Graziani	73
67	1981	Condorman	Krokov	55
68	1981	Venom	Dave Averconnelly	56
69	1983	Fanny Hill	Edward Widdlecome	53
70	1983	Clash of Loyalties	Colonel Leachman	50
71	1983	The Sting II	Lonnegan	46
72	1983	Spasms	Jason Kincaid	46
73	1983	Two of a Kind	Beasley	59
74	1985	Black Arrow	Sir Brackley	67
75	1986	Castaway	Gerald Kingsland	63
76	1986	Captive	Gregory Le Vay	27
77	1987	Gor	Sarm	37
78	1987	Dragonard	Captain Shanks	47
79	1987	Master of Dragonard Hill	Captain Shanks	41
80	1987	The Misfit Brigade	The General	58
81	1988	Blind Justice	Ian Ballinger	40
82	1988	Skeleton Coast	Captain Simpson	43
83	1988	Rage to Kill	General Turner	50
84	1988	The Lady and the Highwayman	Sir Phillip Gage	54
85	1988	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Vulcan	69
86	1988	Captive Rage	General Belmondo	41
87	1989	The Revenger	Jack Fisher	47
88	1989	The Return of the Musketeers	Athos	62
89	1989	The House of Usher	Roderick Usher	47
90	1990	Treasure Island	Billy Bones	65
91	1990	A Ghost in Monte Carlo	The Rajah	57
92	1990	Panama Sugar	Generale	40
93	1990	That's Action	General Turner (archive footage) (uncredited)	0
94	1990	Hired to Kill	Michael Bartos	49
95	1991	The Pit and the Pendulum	Cardinal	56
96	1991	Prisoner of Honor	Gen. de Boisdeffre	62
97	1992	Severed Ties	Dr. Hans Vaughan	41
98	1994	The World of Hammer: Peter Cushing	Narrator	70
99	1994	The World of Hammer: Dracula and the Undead	Narrator	87
100	1994	The World of Hammer: Vamp	Narrator (voice)	60
101	1994	The World of Hammer: Wicked Women	Narrator (voice)	70
102	1994	The World of Hammer: Trials of War	Narrator	90
103	1994	The World of Hammer: Mummies, Werewolves, and the Living Dead	Narrator	70
104	1994	The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time	Narrator	50
105	1995	Luise knackt den Jackpot	Matthias	0
106	1995	Russian Roulette - Moscow 95		0
107	1995	Funny Bones	Dolly Hopkins	65
108	1996	Superbrain	Professor Norbert Marcus	0
109	1996	The Bruce	Bishop Wisharton	62
110	1998	The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo	Captain Cornelius Donovan	72
111	1998	Jeremiah	General Safan	67
112	1999	Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'	Self (archive footage)	69
113	1999	Parting Shots	Jamie Campbell-Stewart	61
114	2000	The Real Oliver Reed	Self (archive footage)	0
115	2000	Gladiator	Proximo	82
116	2000	Hellraisers	Self (archive footage)	0
117	2000	Orpheus & Eurydice	Narrator	0
118	2002	L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")		0
119	2005	Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'	Self	71
120	2012	The Devils Original on-set footage		0
121	2012	Director of Devils	Self	0
122		The World of Hammer: Chiller	narrator	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	The Third Man	Pepi	61
2	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
3	1962	The Saint	Joe Catelli	73
4	1962	The Saint	Aristides Koralis	73
5	1964	R3		0
6	1983	Masquerade	Wolfen	50
7	1985	Christopher Columbus	Martin Pinzon	65
8	1993	Return to Lonesome Dove	Gregor Dunnigan	68
9	1994	The World of Hammer	Narrator	65
10	2002	Living Famously	(archive footage)	0