Cast
Oliver Reed
Acting
Cast
Oliver Reed
Known for
Acting
Born
1938-02-13
From
Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Died
1999-05-02
Also known as Robert Oliver Reed
Biography
Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 β 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".
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8.2
MOVIE2000
Gladiator
as Proximo
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6.7
MOVIE1973
The Three Musketeers
as Athos
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6.6
MOVIE1990
Treasure Island
as Billy Bones
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7.0
MOVIE1988
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
as Vulcan
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5.4
MOVIE1983
Fanny Hill
as Edward Widdlecome
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7.4
MOVIE1971
The Devils
as Father Urbain Grandier
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6.6
MOVIE1969
Women in Love
as Gerald Crich
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7.0
MOVIE1968
Oliver!
as Bill Sikes
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5.8
MOVIE1991
The Pit and the Pendulum
as Cardinal
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6.6
MOVIE1995
Funny Bones
as Dolly Hopkins
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6.4
MOVIE1974
The Four Musketeers
as Athos
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6.4
MOVIE1996
The Bruce
as Bishop Wisharton
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3.8
MOVIE1987
Gor
as Sarm
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7.3
MOVIE1981
Lion of the Desert
as General Rodolfo Graziani
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4.8
MOVIE1983
The Sting II
as Lonnegan
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7.0
MOVIE1960
Hello London
as Photographer (uncredited)
β
5.7
MOVIE1974
And Then There Were None
as Hugh Lombard
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8.0
MOVIE2003
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
β
6.4
MOVIE1975
Tommy
as Frank
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4.5
MOVIE1983
Spasms
as Jason Kincaid
β
6.3
MOVIE1986
Castaway
as Gerald Kingsland
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6.5
MOVIE1977
Ransom
as Nick McCormick
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7.0
MOVIE1960
The League of Gentlemen
as Chorus Boy (uncredited)
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6.8
MOVIE1974
Mahler
as Train Conductor
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6.1
MOVIE1977
The Prince and the Pauper
as Miles Hendon
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6.7
MOVIE1979
The Brood
as Dr. Hal Raglan
β
6.8
MOVIE1998
Jeremiah
as General Safan
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6.5
MOVIE1976
Burnt Offerings
as Ben Rolf
β
5.9
MOVIE1983
Two of a Kind
as Beasley
β
6.5
MOVIE1961
The Curse of the Werewolf
as Leon Corledo
β
4.3
MOVIE1987
Dragonard
as Captain Shanks
β
5.1
MOVIE1976
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
as Joe Knox
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4.8
MOVIE1990
Hired to Kill
as Michael Bartos
β
5.9
MOVIE1978
The Big Sleep
as Eddie Mars
β
7.2
MOVIE1966
The Trap
as La Bete
β
5.1
MOVIE1988
The Lady and the Highwayman
as Sir Phillip Gage
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6.7
MOVIE1969
The Assassination Bureau
as Ivan Dragomiloff
β
6.2
MOVIE1989
The Return of the Musketeers
as Athos
β
5.5
MOVIE1999
Parting Shots
as Jamie Campbell-Stewart
β
6.1
MOVIE1972
Sitting Target
as Harry Lomart
β
6.1
MOVIE1971
The Hunting Party
as Frank Calder
β
5.3
MOVIE1990
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
as The Rajah
β
6.1
MOVIE1960
Sword of Sherwood Forest
as Lord Melton (uncredited)
β
5.8
MOVIE1975
Lisztomania
as Princess Carolyn's Servant
β
6.3
MOVIE1962
The Damned
as King
MOVIE1987
The Best of Max Headroom
as Self
β
6.2
MOVIE1962
The Pirates of Blood River
as Pirate Brocaire
β
7.9
MOVIE1973
One Russian Summer
as Palizyn
β
5.2
MOVIE1973
Dirty Weekend
as Fabrizo
β
7.8
MOVIE1961
The Rebel
as Artist in Cafe
MOVIE2002
L'esattore (parodia de "Il gladiatore")
β
6.3
MOVIE1962
Captain Clegg
as Harry Cobtree
β
5.2
MOVIE1980
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
as Dr. Henry Heckyl/Mr. Hype
β
9.0
MOVIE1990
That's Action
as General Turner (archive footage) (uncredited)
β
5.8
MOVIE1959
Upstairs and Downstairs
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
β
5.7
MOVIE1987
The Misfit Brigade
as The General
β
6.7
MOVIE1961
No Love for Johnnie
as Man with Bucket on His Head (uncredited)
β
10.0
MOVIE2000
Orpheus & Eurydice
as Narrator
β
4.8
MOVIE1989
The House of Usher
as Roderick Usher
β
5.9
MOVIE1975
Royal Flash
as Otto von Bismarck
β
5.3
MOVIE1961
His and Hers
as Oliver Borlinski
β
5.7
MOVIE1963
The Scarlet Blade
as Captain Sylvester
β
4.6
MOVIE1988
Skeleton Coast
as Captain Simpson
β
5.6
MOVIE1965
The Brigand of Kandahar
as Ali Kahn
β
6.3
MOVIE1967
The Jokers
as David Tremayne
MOVIE1977
US Against the World
as Self
β
6.1
MOVIE1960
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
β
5.4
MOVIE1967
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
as Andrew Quint
β
6.1
MOVIE1967
The Shuttered Room
as Ethan
MOVIE1991
Alex Higgins: I'm No Angel
as Self
β
4.3
MOVIE1974
Blue Blood
as Tom the butler
MOVIE2012
Director of Devils
as Self
β
5.0
MOVIE1979
A Touch of the Sun
as Captain Daniel Nelson
β
5.5
MOVIE1981
Condorman
as Krokov
β
6.1
MOVIE1972
Z.P.G.
as Russ
MOVIE2000
The Real Oliver Reed
as Self (archive footage)
β
6.0
MOVIE1959
The Captain's Table
as Suntanning Passenger (uncredited)
β
5.7
MOVIE1978
Tomorrow Never Comes
as Jim Wilson
β
5.5
MOVIE1976
The Sell Out
as Gabriel Lee
β
7.5
MOVIE2005
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
as Self
β
6.4
MOVIE1969
Hannibal Brooks
as Brooks
β
6.6
MOVIE1963
Paranoiac
as Simon Ashby
β
3.9
MOVIE1987
Master of Dragonard Hill
as Captain Shanks
β
6.0
MOVIE1960
The Bulldog Breed
as Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
β
5.1
MOVIE1970
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
as Michael Caldwell
β
7.5
MOVIE1983
Clash of Loyalties
as Colonel Leachman
β
6.3
MOVIE1964
The System
as Tinker
β
7.2
MOVIE1960
The Angry Silence
as Mick
β
6.5
MOVIE1958
The Square Peg
as (uncredited)
β
6.9
MOVIE1985
Black Arrow
as Sir Brackley
β
5.7
MOVIE1981
Venom
as Dave Averconnelly
β
6.3
MOVIE1991
Prisoner of Honor
as Gen. de Boisdeffre
β
3.9
MOVIE1988
Captive Rage
as General Belmondo
β
4.0
MOVIE1986
Captive
as Gregory Le Vay
β
5.8
MOVIE1970
Take a Girl Like You
as Patrick Standish
β
7.2
MOVIE1998
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo
as Captain Cornelius Donovan
β
6.5
MOVIE1965
Always on Sunday
as Narrator (voice)
β
7.6
MOVIE1965
The Debussy Film
as Claude Debussy
β
5.2
MOVIE1988
Rage to Kill
as General Turner
β
6.9
MOVIE1973
Revolver
as Vito Cipriani
β
4.9
MOVIE1989
The Revenger
as Jack Fisher
β
7.3
MOVIE1999
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage)
β
10.0
MOVIE1995
Russian Roulette - Moscow 95
β
6.7
MOVIE1965
The Party's Over
as Moise
MOVIE2012
The Devils Original on-set footage
β
6.5
MOVIE1960
Life Is a Circus
as Spectator at Sideshow (uncredited)
β
5.9
MOVIE1960
Beat Girl
as Plaid Shirt
β
6.9
MOVIE1955
Value for Money
as Extra (uncredited)
MOVIE2000
Hellraisers
as Self (archive footage)
β
10.0
MOVIE1995
Luise knackt den Jackpot
as Matthias
β
4.6
MOVIE1992
Severed Ties
as Dr. Hans Vaughan
β
5.2
MOVIE1978
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
as Terence Sutton
β
6.5
MOVIE1988
Blind Justice
as Ian Ballinger
β
7.0
MOVIE1996
Superbrain
as Professor Norbert Marcus
β
6.9
MOVIE1967
Dante's Inferno
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
β
6.0
MOVIE1994
The World of Hammer: Vamp
as Narrator (voice)
β
5.8
MOVIE1972
The Triple Echo
as Arthur, the Sergeant
β
7.0
MOVIE1994
The World of Hammer: Wicked Women
as Narrator (voice)
β
6.0
MOVIE1990
Panama Sugar
as Generale
β
9.0
MOVIE1994
The World of Hammer: Trials of War
as Narrator
β
7.0
MOVIE1994
The World of Hammer: Chiller
as narrator
β
5.0
MOVIE1994
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time
as Narrator