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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 13, 1938
Died
May 2, 1999
Place of Birth
Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Robert Oliver Reed
- الیور رید
- أوليفر ريد
Oliver Reed
1.9 Popularity
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".
Known For
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Self
Director of Devils
2012
🎬
0.0
The Devils Original on-set footage
2012
7.3
Self
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005
0.0
(archive footage)
Living Famously
2002
0.0
L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")
2002
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0.0
Narrator
Orpheus & Eurydice
2000
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Hellraisers
2000
8.2
Proximo
Gladiator
2000
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Real Oliver Reed
2000
5.4
Jamie Campbell-Stewart
Parting Shots
1999
Credits
Director of Devils
as Self
2012
0.0
🎬
The Devils Original on-set footage
2012
0.0
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
as Self
2005
7.3
Living Famously
as (archive footage)
2002
0.0
L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")
2002
0.0
🎬
Orpheus & Eurydice
as Narrator
2000
0.0
Hellraisers
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
Gladiator
as Proximo
2000
8.2
The Real Oliver Reed
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
Parting Shots
as Jamie Campbell-Stewart
1999
5.4
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage)
1999
6.9
Jeremiah
as General Safan
1998
6.8
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo
as Captain Cornelius Donovan
1998
7.2
The Bruce
as Bishop Wisharton
1996
6.2
Superbrain
as Professor Norbert Marcus
1996
0.0
Funny Bones
as Dolly Hopkins
1995
6.5
Russian Roulette - Moscow 95
1995
0.0
🎬
Luise knackt den Jackpot
as Matthias
1995
0.0
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time
as Narrator
1994
5.0
🎬
The World of Hammer: Chiller
as narrator
1994
7.0
🎬
The World of Hammer: Trials of War
as Narrator
1994
9.0
The World of Hammer: Wicked Women
as Narrator (voice)
1994
7.0
The World of Hammer: Vamp
as Narrator (voice)
1994
6.0
The World of Hammer
as Narrator
1994
6.5
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.5
Return to Lonesome Dove
as Gregor Dunnigan
1993
6.9
Severed Ties
as Dr. Hans Vaughan
1992
4.3
Prisoner of Honor
as Gen. de Boisdeffre
1991
6.2
The Pit and the Pendulum
as Cardinal
1991
5.7
Alex Higgins: I'm No Angel
as Self
1991
0.0
That's Action
as General Turner (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
0.0
Panama Sugar
as Generale
1990
4.0
Hired to Kill
as Michael Bartos
1990
4.6
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
as The Rajah
1990
5.0
Treasure Island
as Billy Bones
1990
6.6
The House of Usher
as Roderick Usher
1989
4.7
The Return of the Musketeers
as Athos
1989
6.2
The Revenger
as Jack Fisher
1989
4.5
Captive Rage
as General Belmondo
1988
3.4
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
as Vulcan
1988
7.0
The Lady and the Highwayman
as Sir Phillip Gage
1988
5.1
Rage to Kill
as General Turner
1988
4.8
Skeleton Coast
as Captain Simpson
1988
3.9
Blind Justice
as Ian Ballinger
1988
4.0
The Misfit Brigade
as The General
1987
5.7
Master of Dragonard Hill
as Captain Shanks
1987
3.2
Dragonard
as Captain Shanks
1987
3.4
Gor
as Sarm
1987
3.6
The Best of Max Headroom
as Self
1987
0.0
Captive
as Gregory Le Vay
1986
2.5
Castaway
as Gerald Kingsland
1986
6.2
Black Arrow
as Sir Brackley
1985
6.5
The Max Headroom Show
as Self
1985
7.5
Christopher Columbus
as Martin Pinzon
1985
6.5
Masquerade
as Wolfen
1983
5.0
Two of a Kind
as Beasley
1983
5.9
Spasms
as Jason Kincaid
1983
4.4
The Sting II
as Lonnegan
1983
4.7
Clash of Loyalties
as Colonel Leachman
1983
5.0
Fanny Hill
as Edward Widdlecome
1983
5.1
Venom
as Dave Averconnelly
1981
5.6
Condorman
as Krokov
1981
5.5
Lion of the Desert
as Gen. Rodolfo Graziani
1981
7.3
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
as Dr. Henry Heckyl/Mr. Hype
1980
5.0
The Brood
as Dr. Hal Raglan
1979
6.7
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Terence Sutton
1979
4.8
A Touch of the Sun
1979
3.5
The Big Sleep
as Eddie Mars
1978
5.9
Tomorrow Never Comes
as Jim Wilson
1978
5.4
US Against the World
as Self
1977
0.0
The Prince and the Pauper
as Miles Hendon
1977
6.0
Ransom
as Nick McCormick
1977
6.4
Burnt Offerings
as Ben Rolf
1976
6.5
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
as Joe Knox
1976
5.0
The Sell Out
as Gabriel Lee
1976
5.2
Royal Flash
as Otto von Bismarck
1975
5.8
Lisztomania
as Princess Carolyn's Servant
1975
5.9
Tommy
as Frank
1975
6.5
Blue Blood
as Tom the butler
1974
4.0
The Four Musketeers
as Athos
1974
6.4
And Then There Were None
as Hugh Lombard
1974
5.7
Mahler
as Train Conductor
1974
6.6
The Three Musketeers
as Athos
1973
6.7
Revolver
as Vito Cipriani
1973
6.9
Dirty Weekend
as Fabrizo
1973
4.9
One Russian Summer
as Palizyn
1973
7.8
The Triple Echo
as Arthur, the Sergeant
1972
5.6
Z.P.G.
as Russ
1972
6.1
Sitting Target
as Harry Lomart
1972
6.1
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Film '72
as Self
1971
4.7
The Devils
as Father Urbain Grandier
1971
7.5
The Hunting Party
as Frank Calder
1971
6.1
Take a Girl Like You
as Patrick Standish
1970
5.6
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
as Michael Caldwell
1970
4.9
Women in Love
as Gerald Crich
1969
6.5
The Assassination Bureau
as Ivan Dragomiloff
1969
6.6
Hannibal Brooks
as Brooks
1969
6.3
Oliver!
as Bill Sikes
1968
7.0
Dante's Inferno
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1967
6.8
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
as Andrew Quint
1967
5.3
The Shuttered Room
as Ethan
1967
6.0
The Jokers
as David Tremayne
1967
6.0
The Trap
as La Bete
1966
7.0
The Brigand of Kandahar
as Ali Kahn
1965
5.4
Always on Sunday
as Narrator (voice)
1965
6.0
The Debussy Film
as Claude Debussy
1965
7.6
The Party's Over
as Moise
1965
6.6
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R3
1964
0.0
The System
as Tinker
1964
6.2
The Scarlet Blade
as Captain Sylvester
1963
5.4
Paranoiac
as Simon Ashby
1963
6.6
The Damned
as King
1962
6.2
The Saint
as Joe Catelli
1962
7.4
The Saint
as Aristides Koralis
1962
7.4
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Captain Clegg
as Harry Cobtree
1962
6.3
The Pirates of Blood River
as Pirate Brocaire
1962
6.1
The Curse of the Werewolf
as Leon Corledo
1961
6.5
The Rebel
as Artist in Cafe
1961
7.8
No Love for Johnnie
as Man with Bucket on His Head (uncredited)
1961
6.2
His and Hers
as Oliver Borlinski
1961
4.9
Sword of Sherwood Forest
as Lord Melton (uncredited)
1960
6.0
The Bulldog Breed
as Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
1960
5.7
🎬
Hello London
as Photographer (uncredited)
1960
5.0
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
1960
6.1
Beat Girl
as Plaid Shirt
1960
5.8
The League of Gentlemen
as Chorus Boy (uncredited)
1960
7.0
The Angry Silence
as Mick
1960
7.2
Life Is a Circus
as Spectator at Sideshow (uncredited)
1960
6.0
Upstairs and Downstairs
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
1959
5.6
The Third Man
as Pepi
1959
7.1
The Captain's Table
as Suntanning Passenger (uncredited)
1959
5.8
The Square Peg
as (uncredited)
1958
6.5
Value for Money
as Extra (uncredited)
1955
6.6