Oliver Reed

Acting · 2.4 popularity

Age

Movies

122

Born: February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999
From: Wimbledon, London, England, UK

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".

Works

122 films

Gladiator

20008.2

Tommy

19756.5

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

19887.0

The Three Musketeers

19736.7

Oliver!

19687.0

Celebrity Naked Ambition

20035.0

The Devils

19717.4

The Brood

19796.7

Treasure Island

19906.6

Women in Love

19696.6

Lion of the Desert

19817.3

The Four Musketeers

19746.5

Funny Bones

19956.6

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

19675.4

The Prince and the Pauper

19776.1

And Then There Were None

19745.7

The Trap

19667.2

Burnt Offerings

19766.5

Castaway

19866.3

The Return of the Musketeers

19896.2

The Pit and the Pendulum

19915.8

Jeremiah

19986.9

Mahler

19746.8

Gor

19873.8

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

19765.1

The Curse of the Werewolf

19616.5

The Big Sleep

19785.9

Two of a Kind

19835.9

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

19606.1

Spasms

19834.5

Condorman

19815.5

The Sting II

19834.7

The Hunting Party

19716.1

The Pirates of Blood River

19626.2

The Assassination Bureau

19696.7

The League of Gentlemen

19607.0

Hello London

19607.0

Venom

19815.7

The Misfit Brigade

19875.7

The Lady and the Highwayman

19885.1

Beat Girl

19605.9

Parting Shots

19995.5

Lisztomania

19755.8

L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")

2002

Fanny Hill

19835.4

The Best of Max Headroom

1987

The Bruce

19966.4

Captain Clegg

19626.3

The House of Usher

19894.8

Royal Flash

19755.8

Ransom

19776.5

The Jokers

19676.3

Sitting Target

19726.1

Sword of Sherwood Forest

19606.1

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

19785.2

The Damned

19626.3

Dragonard

19874.3

Master of Dragonard Hill

19873.9

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

19705.1

Z.P.G.

19726.1

Upstairs and Downstairs

19595.8

Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

20057.5

The Shuttered Room

19676.1

The Rebel

19617.8

Hannibal Brooks

19696.4

Blue Blood

19744.3

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

19905.3

Hired to Kill

19904.8

US Against the World

1977

No Love for Johnnie

19616.7

The Bulldog Breed

19606.1

The Angry Silence

19607.2

Black Arrow

19856.9

Dirty Weekend

19735.2

Captive Rage

19883.9

Revolver

19736.9

Orpheus & Eurydice

200010.0

The Brigand of Kandahar

19655.6

Paranoiac

19636.6

The System

19646.3

That's Action

19909.0

The Scarlet Blade

19635.7

The Square Peg

19586.5

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

19997.3

The Triple Echo

19725.8

Alex Higgins: I'm No Angel

1991

One Russian Summer

19737.9

Take a Girl Like You

19705.8

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

19805.2

Prisoner of Honor

19916.3

Life Is a Circus

19606.5

A Touch of the Sun

19795.0

The Captain's Table

19596.0

Russian Roulette - Moscow 95

199510.0

Rage to Kill

19885.2

Tomorrow Never Comes

19785.7

Always on Sunday

19656.5

Panama Sugar

19906.0

The World of Hammer: Wicked Women

19947.0

Value for Money

19556.9

The Party's Over

19656.7

Hellraisers

2000

The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo

19987.2

The Real Oliver Reed

2000

Superbrain

19967.0

The Revenger

19894.9

The World of Hammer: Vamp

19946.0

Skeleton Coast

19884.6

Severed Ties

19924.6

The Sell Out

19765.5

The World of Hammer: Chiller

19947.0

Clash of Loyalties

19837.5

The Debussy Film

19657.6

Director of Devils

2012

Blind Justice

19886.5

His and Hers

19615.3

Captive

19864.0

Dante's Inferno

19676.9

Luise knackt den Jackpot

199510.0

The Devils Original on-set footage

2012

The World of Hammer: Trials of War

19949.0

The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time

19945.0