Oliver Reed
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1938-02-13 (61 years old)
Deathday
1999-05-02
Place of Birth
Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Also known As
Robert Oliver Reed
الیور رید
أوليفر ريد
Oliver Reed
Biography
Robert Oliver Reed 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 ...
Acting
2000
as Proximo
1960
as Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
1978
as Eddie Mars
1973
as Athos
1973
as Vito Cipriani
1974
as Hugh Lombard
1987
as The General
1977
as Miles Hendon
1970
as Michael Caldwell
1975
as Frank
1981
as Dave Averconnelly
1971
as Father Urbain Grandier
1974
as Athos
1998
as General Safan
1983
as Beasley
1969
as Brooks
1990
as Billy Bones
1981
as Gen. Rodolfo Graziani
1976
as Ben Rolf
1961
as Leon Corledo
1995
as Dolly Hopkins
1979
as Dr. Hal Raglan
1988
as Vulcan
1965
as Moise
1963
as Simon Ashby
1989
as Athos
1983
as Lonnegan
1960
as Plaid Shirt
1972
as Arthur, the Sergeant
1971
as Frank Calder
1969
as Gerald Crich
1968
as Bill Sikes
1989
as Roderick Usher
1978
as Jim Wilson
1975
as Princess Carolyn's Servant
1991
as Cardinal
1981
as Krokov
1976
as Joe Knox
1962
as Harry Cobtree
1972
as Russ
1988
as Captain Simpson
1969
as Ivan Dragomiloff
1962
as King
1966
as La Bete
1986
as Gerald Kingsland
1972
as Harry Lomart
1975
as Otto von Bismarck
1963
as Captain Sylvester
1965
as Ali Kahn
1988
as General Belmondo
1960
as Mick
1980
as Dr. Henry Heckyl/Mr. Hype
1967
as Ethan
1962
as Pirate Brocaire
1998
as Captain Cornelius Donovan
1983
as Edward Widdlecome
1990
as Michael Bartos
1987
as Sarm
1988
as Sir Phillip Gage
1990
as The Rajah
1983
as Jason Kincaid
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1977
as Self
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1976
as Gabriel Lee
1958
as (uncredited)
1989
as Jack Fisher
1967
as David Tremayne
1960
as Lord Melton (uncredited)
1967
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1967
as Andrew Quint
1964
as Tinker
1970
as Patrick Standish
1979
as Terence Sutton
1991
as Gen. de Boisdeffre
2000
as Narrator
1987
as Captain Shanks
1986
as Gregory Le Vay
1974
as Tom the butler
1996
as Professor Norbert Marcus
1977
as Nick McCormick
1961
as Poet
1995
as Matthias
1988
as General Turner
1994
as Narrator
1996
as Bishop Wisharton
1985
as Sir Brackley
1973
as Fabrizo
1973
as Palizyn
1965
as Claude Debussy
2012
as Self
1987
as Captain Shanks
1992
as Dr. Hans Vaughan
1983
as Colonel Leachman
1988
as Ian Ballinger
1994
as Narrator (voice)
1994
as Narrator (voice)
1999
as Jamie Campbell-Stewart
1960
as Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
1990
as General Turner (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
as Narrator (voice)
1990
as Generale
1974
as Train Conductor
1961
as Artist in Cafe
1960
as Chorus Boy (uncredited)
1961
as Man with Bucket on His Head (uncredited)
1959
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
1959
as Suntanning Passenger (uncredited)
1960
as Spectator at Sideshow (uncredited)
1960
as Photographer (uncredited)
1955
as Extra (uncredited)
1994
as narrator
1999
as Self (archive footage)
1994
as Narrator
1987
as Self
2005
as Self (Archival footage)
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