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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
(1983) WolfenThe Saint
(1962) Aristides KoralisThe Third Man
(1959) PepiGladiator
(2000) ProximoThe World of Hammer
(1994) NarratorChristopher Columbus
(1985) Martin PinzonThe Brood
(1979) Dr. Hal RaglanLion of the Desert
(1981) Gen. Rodolfo GrazianiActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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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 |