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