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Oliver Reed
Birthday: February 13, 1938

Birth Place: Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Height: 5' 1"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Oliver Reed. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Burly British actor Oliver Reed juggled over 60 film roles in 40 years and a full-blooded social life of women, booze, and bar fights, both of which became fodder for stories about one of England's darker leading men and villainous character actors. After getting his start in cult monster movies from Hammer Studios, Reed forged a body of work most associated with acclaimed directors Ken Russell, Richard Lester, and Michael Winner, in which he was able to sidestep his typecasting as a brooding heavy. Reed remains one of the only prominent British thespians never to amass any stage work, making him a pure film actor. Reed was born on February 13, 1938, in Wimbledon, England, a nephew of film director Sir Carol Reed (The Third Man). An antsy type given to partying with friends, Reed did not complete high school. He ended up taking on a variety of blue-collar jobs, including nightclub bouncer and hospital porter, and even a short career in pugilism. In 1960, he suddenly burst into films, showing up in the background of the Hammer films The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll and Sword of Sherwood Forest, and as a gay ballet dancer in The League of Gentlemen. His first starring role came with Hammer in 1961, as the title character in Curse of the Werewolf. Years later, he would serve as narrator on a full Hammer retrospective, putting his sonorous speaking voice to good use and paying homage to his roots. Such early work paved the way for a steady flow of bad-guy roles in horrors, costume dramas, and suspense thrillers. Reed's intense, glowering features could also be manipulated for believable ethnic characterizations. Titles such as These Are the Damned and Pirates of Blood River (both 1962) followed. His first of six collaborations with Michael Winner came with The Girl Getters in 1966. In 1968, he won his first leading role in a universally well-received film, the Oscar-winner Oliver!, directed by his uncle, in which he played murderous thief Bill Sikes. Despite complaints of nepotism, Reed insisted he had to persuade his uncle to cast him, even though his credentials closely matched the needs of the part. Another watershed moment came in 1969, when Ken Russell cast him as one of the leads in his adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love. While the film was a well-received treatise on sexuality and marriage, it achieved some notoriety for featuring the first-ever full-frontal male nudity in an English-language commercial film. Reed and Alan Bates engage in a memorable nude wrestling match that audaciously fleshes out the film's themes. Reportedly, Russell had planned to scrap the scene, worried about censor backlash, until Reed wrestled him into including it, literally pinning him down, in Russell's kitchen. Still, Reed told the Los Angeles Times he had to drink a bottle of vodka before he could relax enough to film the scene. The actor and director would work together five more times, including The Devils (1971) and Tommy (1975), in which Reed played Frank Hobbs. Reed was also known for portraying musketeer Athos in three of Richard Lester's film versions of Alexandre Dumas' famous tale. Reed appeared in The Three Musketeers (1973) and its sequel, The Four Musketeers (1975), which originally had been planned as one long movie. He revived the role in 1989 for The Return of the Musketeers. During filming of the windmill scene in the first film, Reed was nearly killed when he received an accidental stab wound in the neck. Add in 36 facial stitches following a bar fight in 1963, and the actor had more than his share of scrapes. Reed peaked in many ways in the mid-'70s, and had to settle on genre work for much of his career. Films such as Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hipe (1980), Venom (1982), Gor (1987), and Dragonard (1987) became his regular source of paychecks for many years. For every respite, such as Nicolas Roeg's Castaway (1987) or Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989), there was a return to familiar territory with garbage like House IV: Home Deadly Home (1991). Reed's most familiar role for modern audiences was also his last. The actor appeared in Oscar-winner Gladiator (2000) as Proximo, the amoral merchant who trains the enslaved fighters to kill and be killed. When he died midway through production, Reed unwittingly became part of a groundbreaking three-million-dollar endeavor by director Ridley Scott to digitally re-create his likeness in order to film Proximo's death scene. A three-dimensional image of Reed's face was scanned into computers so it could smile and talk, then digitally grafted onto a body double. Reed died in Malta, where Gladiator was being filmed, on May 2, 1999, the result of a heart attack brought on by one last night of hard drinking, which included three bottles of downed rum and arm wrestling victories over five sailors. He was survived by his third wife, Josephine Burge, as well as a son (Mark) and a daughter (Sarah), one each from his previous two marriages.

Movie Credits
Orpheus & Eurydice (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
[ Joaquin Phoenix ][ Russell Crowe ][ Ridley Scott ][ Richard Harris ][ Djimon Hounsou ]
Parting Shots (1999)
[ John Cleese ][ Ben Kingsley ][ Bob Hoskins ]
Jeremiah (1998)
[ Patrick Dempsey ][ Vincent Regan ][ Andrea Occhipinti ]
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo (1998)
[ Jack Palance ][ Don Diamont ][ Graham Stark ]
Tunnelgangster von Berlin, Die (1996)
The Bruce (1996)
[ Brian Blessed ]
Funny Bones (1995)
[ Oliver Platt ][ Jerry Lewis ][ Richard Griffiths ][ Lee Evans ][ Ian McNeice ]
Superbrain (1995)
Russian Roulette - Moscow 95 (1995)
[ Jan-Michael Vincent ]
Severed Ties (1992)
Prisoner of Honor (1991)
[ Richard Dreyfuss ][ Brian Blessed ][ Peter Firth ]
Panama zucchero (1990)
[ Scott Plank ]
The Pit and the Pendulum (1990)
[ Lance Henriksen ][ Jeffrey Combs ][ Mark Margolis ][ Jonathan Fuller ]
Hired to Kill (1990)
[ George Kennedy ][ Brian Thompson ]
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990)
[ Christopher Plummer ]
Treasure Island (1990)
[ Christian Bale ][ Christopher Lee ][ Charlton Heston ][ Pete Postlethwaite ][ Julian Glover ]
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
[ Christopher Lee ][ C. Thomas Howell ][ Billy Connolly ][ Michael York ][ Richard Chamberlain ]
Master of Dragonard Hill (1989)
[ Patrick Warburton ][ Herbert Lom ]
The Lady and the Highwayman (1989)
[ Hugh Grant ][ Michael York ][ John Mills ]
The Revenger (1989)
[ Arnold Vosloo ][ Frank Zagarino ]
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
[ Robin Williams ][ Terry Gilliam ][ Jonathan Pryce ][ Eric Idle ][ Kiran Shah ]
Gor (1988)
[ Arnold Vosloo ][ Jack Palance ]
Blind Justice (1988)
Captive Rage (1988)
[ Robert Vaughn ]
The House of Usher (1988)
[ Donald Pleasence ]
The Misfit Brigade (1987)
[ David Carradine ][ Bruce Davison ][ David Patrick Kelly ][ Jay O. Sanders ]
Rage to Kill (1987)
Skeleton Coast (1987)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Arnold Vosloo ][ Robert Vaughn ][ Herbert Lom ][ Leon Isaac Kennedy ]
Dragonard (1987)
[ Patrick Warburton ]
Castaway (1986)
Captive (1986)
Black Arrow (1985)
[ Donald Pleasence ]
Two of a Kind (1983)
[ John Travolta ][ Gene Hackman ][ Ernie Hudson ][ Charles Durning ][ Scatman Crothers ]
Masquerade (1983)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Rod Taylor ][ Richard Roundtree ][ Greg Evigan ]
Spasms (1983)
[ Peter Fonda ]
Mas' Ala Al-Kubra, al- (1983)
Fanny Hill (1983)
[ Barry Stokes ]
The Sting II (1983)
[ Jackie Gleason ][ Karl Malden ][ Ron Rifkin ]
Venom (1981)
[ Klaus Kinski ][ Sterling Hayden ][ Tobe Hooper ][ Michael Gough ]
Condorman (1981)
[ Dana Elcar ]
Lion of the Desert (1981)
[ Anthony Quinn ][ Rod Steiger ][ John Gielgud ]
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980)
[ Tony Cox ]
The Brood (1979)
[ Leslie Howard ]
A Touch of the Sun (1979)
[ Peter Cushing ][ Keenan Wynn ]
The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978)
[ Michael Murphy ]
The Big Sleep (1978)
[ James Stewart ][ Robert Mitchum ][ John Mills ][ Edward Fox ]
Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
[ Donald Pleasence ][ Raymond Burr ]
The Ransom (1977)
Crossed Swords (1977)
[ Charlton Heston ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ George C Scott ][ George C. Scott ][ Rex Harrison ]
Burnt Offerings (1976)
[ Burgess Meredith ]
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976)
[ Lee Marvin ][ Robert Culp ][ Strother Martin ]
The Sell-Out (1976)
[ Richard Widmark ]
Lisztomania (1975)
[ Ringo Starr ][ Roger Daltrey ]
Royal Flash (1975)
[ Malcolm McDowell ][ Bob Hoskins ][ Alan Bates ][ Joss Ackland ][ Roy Kinnear ]
Tommy (1975)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ John Cho ][ Elton John ][ Roger Daltrey ][ Eric Clapton ]
The Four Musketeers (1974)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Charlton Heston ][ Michael York ][ Richard Chamberlain ][ Roy Kinnear ]
Mahler (1974)
And Then There Were None (1974)
[ Orson Welles ][ Richard Attenborough ][ Herbert Lom ]
Mordi e fuggi (1973)
[ Marcello Mastroianni ]
The Three Musketeers (1973)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Charlton Heston ][ Michael York ][ Richard Chamberlain ][ Joss Ackland ]
Revolver (1973)
[ Bernard Giraudeau ][ Fabio Testi ]
Days of Fury (1973)
Blue Blood (1973)
[ Derek Jacobi ]
Sitting Target (1972)
[ Ian McShane ][ Edward Woodward ]
Z.P.G. (1972)
The Triple Echo (1972)
The Devils (1971)
The Hunting Party (1971)
[ Gene Hackman ]
Take a Girl Like You (1970)
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970)
Women in Love (1969)
[ Michael Gough ][ Alan Bates ][ Christopher Gable ]
Hannibal Brooks (1969)
[ Michael J. Pollard ]
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
[ Telly Savalas ][ Warren Mitchell ]
Oliver! (1968)
[ Jack Wild ]
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
[ Orson Welles ][ Edward Fox ]
The Shuttered Room (1967)
The Jokers (1967)
[ Edward Fox ][ Warren Mitchell ]
The Trap (1966)
The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
The Debussy Film (1965)
The Party's Over (1965)
[ Edward Albert ][ Eddie Albert ]
The System (1964)
The King of the Beggars (1963)
The Damned (1963)
Paranoiac (1963)
The Scarlet Blade (1963)
Captain Clegg (1962)
[ Peter Cushing ]
Pirates of Blood River (1962)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Desmond Llewelyn ]
The Rebel (1961)
[ George Sanders ]
No Love for Johnnie (1961)
[ Donald Pleasence ]
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
[ Desmond Llewelyn ][ Warren Mitchell ]
His and Hers (1961)
The Angry Silence (1960)
[ Richard Attenborough ]
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
[ Peter Cushing ][ Desmond Llewelyn ]
The Bulldog Breed (1960)
[ Michael Caine ]
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
[ Christopher Lee ]
Beat Girl (1960)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Adam Faith ]
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
The Captain's Table (1959)
[ Steven Berkoff ]
The League of Gentlemen (1959)
[ Richard Attenborough ]
Life Is a Circus (1958)
Hello London (1958)
The Square Peg (1958)

Trivia

  • Shared the same dentist as horror star Christopher Lee
  • Needed 36 stitches to repair cuts on his face after a bar fight in 1963. The incident left him with a permanent scar, which he initially feared would put an end to his screen career.
  • He had two brothers. David Reed became his business manager and his half-brother Simon Reed became his press agent.
  • Nephew of the film director Sir Carol Reed, who directed him in one of his best roles, as the villainous Bill Sykes in Oliver! (1968).
  • Father of Mark Reed, with his first wife Kate Byrne and of Sarah Reed, with his partner, the dancer Jacqueline Daryl.
  • He died of a heart attack in a bar after downing three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaica rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey, and beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling. His bar bill for that final lunch time totaled 270 Maltese lira, almost £450.
  • He was severely injured and almost died during the filming of The Three Musketeers (1973) when he was stabbed in the throat during the windmill duel scene.
  • It took Director Ridley Scott 3,000,000 dollars to recreate Oliver's face after he dies during the filming of Gladiator (2000)
  • Grandson of actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1904.
  • His first job (at the age of 17) was as a bouncer at a Soho nightclub.
  • Was dyslexic.
  • Cousin of actress Tracy Reed and of the actor David Tree.
  • He was related by marriage to fellow actor Edward Fox, who was once married to his cousin, Tracy Reed, daughter of director Sir Carol Reed.
  • Reed narrowly missed out on playing superspy James Bond because of his love of alcohol and fighting. A new biography of the star uncovered a letter from Bond mastermind Albert R. Broccoli outlining how close he came to replacing Sean Connery in the role. Broccoli wrote, "With Reed we would have had a far greater problem to destroy his image and re-mold him as James Bond. We just didn't have the time or money to do that." According to Cliff Goodwin, author of the book "Evil Spirits", "Oliver was probably within a sliver of being cast as Bond." He adds, "But by 1968 his affairs were public and he was already drinking and fighting - as far away from the refined Bond image as you could get."
  • He was one of very few celebrities to remain in England during the 1970s, when taxes were very high. Because of this he referred to himself as "Mr England".
  • By the mid-1970s he was considered by many to be Britain's biggest movie star. He declined roles in The Sting (1973) and Jaws (1975) because he didn't want to relocate to Los Angeles. Both of these roles were taken by fellow British hellraiser Robert Shaw. However, a Hollywood executive claimed, "Reed didn't turn us down. We turned him down. We like our stars to have respect - Oliver Reed didn't respect anyone and he showed it."
  • The actor he admired most was Errol Flynn.
  • He was a close friend of The Who's drummer Keith Moon.
  • In 1973 Steve McQueen flew to England to meet Reed and discuss a possible film collaboration. "Reed showed me his country mansion and we got on well," recalled McQueen. "He then suggested he take me to his favorite London nightclub." The drinking, which started at Reed's home, Broome Hall, continued into the night until Reed could hardly stand. Suddenly, and with no apparent warning, he vomited over McQueen's shirt and trousers. "The staff rushed around and found me some new clothes, but they couldn't get me any shoes," said McQueen. "I had to spend the rest of the night smelling of Oliver Reed's sick."
  • Former snooker champion Alex Higgins, himself suffering from throat cancer, was the only celebrity to attend Reed's funeral in Ireland.
  • His wrestling scene with Alan Bates in Women in Love (1969) was the first time full frontal male nudity had featured in a mainstream movie.

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