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Oliver Reed
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 Hor…
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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".
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2012
Director of Devils
Movie Self
- 2012
- 2005
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2003
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Living Famously
TV show (archive footage)
- 2002
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2000
Orpheus & Eurydice
Movie Narrator
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2000
Hellraisers
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
Gladiator
Movie Proximo
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2000
The Real Oliver Reed
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Parting Shots
Movie Jamie Campbell-Stewart
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1999
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1998
Jeremiah
Movie General Safan
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1998
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo
Movie Captain Cornelius Donovan
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1996
The Bruce
Movie Bishop Wisharton
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1996
Superbrain
Movie Professor Norbert Marcus
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1995
Funny Bones
Movie Dolly Hopkins
- 1995
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1995
Luise knackt den Jackpot
Movie Matthias
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1994
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time
Movie Narrator
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1994
The World of Hammer: Chiller
Movie narrator
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1994
The World of Hammer: Trials of War
Movie Narrator
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1994
The World of Hammer: Wicked Women
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1994
The World of Hammer: Vamp
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1994
The World of Hammer
TV show Narrator
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1993
Return to Lonesome Dove
TV show Gregor Dunnigan
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1992
Severed Ties
Movie Dr. Hans Vaughan
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1991
Prisoner of Honor
Movie Gen. de Boisdeffre
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1991
The Pit and the Pendulum
Movie Cardinal
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1991
Alex Higgins: I'm No Angel
Movie Self
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1990
That's Action
Movie General Turner (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1990
The Word
TV show
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1990
Treasure Island
Movie Billy Bones
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1990
Panama Sugar
Movie Generale
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1990
Hired to Kill
Movie Michael Bartos
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1990
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Movie The Rajah
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1989
The House of Usher
Movie Roderick Usher
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1989
The Return of the Musketeers
Movie Athos
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1989
The Revenger
Movie Jack Fisher
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1988
Captive Rage
Movie General Belmondo
