Oliver Reed
Date of birth: 1938-02-13
Place of birth: Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Robert Oliver Reed, الیور رید, أوليفر ريد
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".
Movie Credits
Gladiator
2000-05-04
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960-10-24
After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling huma
The Big Sleep
1978-03-13
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a ri
The Three Musketeers
1973-12-11
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends
Revolver
1973-09-27
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner
And Then There Were None
1974-09-24
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killi
The Misfit Brigade
1987-07-02
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.
The Prince and the Pauper
1977-06-03
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and so
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970-10-22
Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through t
Tommy
1975-03-19
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a
Venom
1981-11-28
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, howev
The Devils
1971-07-16
Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-c
The Four Musketeers
1974-10-31
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter
Jeremiah
1998-12-14
The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God app
Two of a Kind
1983-12-13
God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all ov
Hannibal Brooks
1969-01-18
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bo
Treasure Island
1990-01-22
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies
Lion Of The Desert
1981-04-17
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq
Burnt Offerings
1976-10-18
A couple and their twelve-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer where things aren’t qu
Funny Bones
1995-09-20
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns t
The Brood
1979-05-25
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988-12-07
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfi
The Party's Over
1965-04-22
A group of close friends spend their time drinking and partying. When the American fiancé one of the
Paranoiac
1963-01-07
A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly g
The Return of the Musketeers
1989-04-12
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has over
The Sting II
1983-02-18
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica,
Beat Girl
1960-08-21
When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny g
The Triple Echo
1972-11-16
After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land hersel
The Hunting Party
1971-07-16
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his
Women in Love
1969-09-13
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters
Oliver!
1968-09-26
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from
The House of Usher
1989-04-13
An updated version of the classic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe. Ryan and his girlfriend Molly are
Tomorrow Never Comes
1978-03-02
Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working
Lisztomania
1975-10-10
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keep
The Pit and the Pendulum
1991-06-27
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a
Condorman
1981-07-02
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976-06-23
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who
Captain Clegg
1962-06-13
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but
Z.P.G.
1972-05-25
In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children f
Skeleton Coast
1988-04-14
A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save
The Assassination Bureau
1969-03-09
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organizat
The Damned
1962-11-16
An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret
The Trap
1966-04-07
A French-Canadian fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote
Castaway
1986-03-05
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year wit
Sitting Target
1972-05-01
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term
Royal Flash
1975-10-10
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19t
The Scarlet Blade
1963-09-01
A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters roy
The Brigand of Kandahar
1965-08-09
1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British A
Captive Rage
1988-12-14
When the DEA director arrests the drug-dealing son of a South American general and cocaine baron, th
The Angry Silence
1960-03-10
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980-10-01
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil
The Shuttered Room
1967-06-27
In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious blood
The Pirates of Blood River
1962-05-09
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search
Fanny Hill
1983-01-01
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo
1998-01-01
In this globe-trotting adventure, Marco Polo (Don Diamont) plays the famous 13th Century explorer wh
Hired to Kill
1990-04-28
A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do
Gor
1987-05-08
American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an
The Lady and the Highwayman
1988-12-03
During one of his robberies, a highwayman, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, falls in
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990-04-02
A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating
Spasms
1983-10-28
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimenta
The Real Oliver Reed
2000-01-13
A documentary portrait about the life and times of the infamous hellraiser, who died in May 1999, ha
US Against the World
1977-09-07
This NBC Special from 1977 pitted celebrities from the worlds of film and TV in the United States ag
Hellraisers
2000-08-26
Documentary about notorious British and Irish wildmen Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed and
The Sell Out
1976-05-01
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the m
The Square Peg
1958-12-04
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they c
The Revenger
1989-01-01
When saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob
The Jokers
1967-05-15
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not f
Sword of Sherwood Forest
1960-12-26
Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Arch
Dante's Inferno
1967-12-22
The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and s
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967-12-18
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic
The System
1964-04-12
In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sex
Take a Girl Like You
1970-12-16
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979-01-27
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative schoo
Prisoner of Honor
1991-11-02
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscur
Orpheus & Eurydice
2000-09-06
Retelling one of the most famous Greek myths, Orpheus and Eurydice is considered the ultimate tragic
Dragonard
1987-05-12
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Car
Captive
1986-09-19
The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to
Blue Blood
1974-11-01
A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom h
Superbrain
1996-03-24
A group of criminals storm into a Berlin Bank and escape through a tunnel, which they built earlier.
Ransom
1977-04-29
A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered c
His and Hers
1961-01-01
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspirati
Luise knackt den Jackpot
1995-01-01
Luise modestly but happily runs a small travel agency with her husband Matthias. Matthias goes on a
Rage to Kill
1988-09-14
Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical sch
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time
1994-10-20
Hammer Films remain on record as the most consistently successful and influential British film compa
The Bruce
1996-04-12
Robert the Bruce unites the Scots in a rebellion against the hated English, led by Edward I. He is s
Black Arrow
1985-10-09
In 15th century England, a civil war called Wars of the Roses is being fought between two rival hous
Dirty Weekend
1973-03-08
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of ba
One Russian Summer
1973-01-01
Based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chroni
The Debussy Film
1965-05-18
An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifyin
Director of Devils
2012-03-19
Behind the scenes of the making of Ken Russell's 1971 film 'The Devils. Shown are the construction o
Master of Dragonard Hill
1987-05-13
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats ru
Severed Ties
1992-09-02
A regeneration experiment on a severed arm goes awry, turning the limb into a murderous, reptilian c
A Touch of the Sun
1979-01-01
A bumbling US marine Captain is assigned to retrieve a space capsule from a despotic African ruler.
Clash of Loyalties
1983-01-02
During the British colonial period in Iraq, Sheikh Dhari and his tribe openly reject colonization an
Blind Justice
1988-01-01
Following Southern Rhodesia’s declaration of independence, many face victory, while others grapple w
The World of Hammer: Vamp
1994-09-01
Through the years, Hammer's depiction of female vampires was consistently groundbreaking and always
The World of Hammer: Wicked Women
1994-09-09
The wicked women of Hammer included such cult stars and screen legends as Bette Davis, Ingrid Pitt,
Parting Shots
1999-05-14
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only thr
The Bulldog Breed
1960-12-13
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After
That's Action
1990-10-03
Actor Robert Culp introduces trailers for and scenes from movies from Action International Pictures.
Always on Sunday
1965-06-28
Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
Russian Roulette - Moscow 95
1995-01-01
An American widow takes revenge on the Russian mafia in Moscow after her husband is killed.
Panama Sugar
1990-05-04
On an idyllic Caribbean island, Panama Sugar and his friends, engage a battle with Fox Perry, the we
The Devils Original on-set footage
2012-01-01
On-set footage of the film The Devils (1971) with commentary by editor Mike Bradsell
Mahler
1974-04-04
Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while travel
The Rebel
1961-03-07
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, bu
The League of Gentlemen
1960-04-15
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special pro
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959-11-02
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic
Hello London
1960-11-05
Hello London is a 1958 documentary film starring Sonja Henie and Michael Wilding.
The Captain's Table
1959-01-06
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although
Life Is a Circus
1960-02-16
Encompassing three hugely popular double acts, The Crazy Gang were one of Britain's best-loved, most
Value for Money
1955-08-09
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to t
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
2005-06-07
An in-depth look at the entire making of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Consisting of: Tale Of The Scrib
The World of Hammer: Chiller
1994-09-16
Through the 1950s and 1960s, and running alongside production of the gothic horror films, Hammer mad
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999-01-01
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a
The World of Hammer: Trials of War
1994-09-16
A look at Hammer's war films.
L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")
2002-01-01
The Best of Max Headroom
1987-03-05
Some of the best bits from 'The Max Headroom Show'.
The Curse of the Werewolf
1961-05-01
A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at nigh
No Love for Johnnie
1961-02-14
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his li