Oliver Reed

Acting · Born 1938-02-13 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK

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…

Filmography

• Gladiator as Proximo
• The Devils as Father Urbain Grandier
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as Vulcan
• Oliver! as Bill Sikes
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll as Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
• The Big Sleep as Eddie Mars
• The Three Musketeers as Athos
• Revolver as Vito Cipriani
• And Then There Were None as Hugh Lombard
• The Misfit Brigade as The General

TV

• The Saint as Joe Catelli
• Return to Lonesome Dove as Gregor Dunnigan
• The Third Man as Pepi
• Masquerade as Peter Serkov / Wolfen
• The World of Hammer as Narrator
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
• Christopher Columbus as Martin Pinzon
• The Saint as Aristides Koralis
• The Max Headroom Show as Self
• Film '72 as Self