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Aliases: Robert Oliver Reed , الیور رید , أوليفر ريد

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Wimbledon, London, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 81

TV Involvements: 8


Most Famous Work

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

Most Famous Work

Masquerade
Average
5

Masquerade

(1983) Wolfen
The Saint
Average
7

The Saint

(1962) Aristides Koralis
The Third Man
Average
6

The Third Man

(1959) Pepi
Gladiator
Average
8

Gladiator

(2000) Proximo
The World of Hammer
Average
0

The World of Hammer

(1994) Narrator
Christopher Columbus
Average
7

Christopher Columbus

(1985) Martin Pinzon
The Brood
Average
7

The Brood

(1979) Dr. Hal Raglan
Lion of the Desert
Average
7

Lion of the Desert

(1981) Gen. Rodolfo Graziani

Acting

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

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