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Oliver Reed
🎂 Feb 13, 1938 — 🕯️ May 2, 1999 (61 years)
Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Oliver Reed, born in Wimbledon, London, England, UK, is an actor and producer. Made their debut in 1955 with Value for Money. Best known for Gladiator, playing Proximo. Also starred in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and The Brood. Their filmography spans 122 movies and 14 TV shows over 71 years, across genres including drama, adventure, action.
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Movies
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Gladiator
2000
Oliver!
1968
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
The Devils
1971
The Three Musketeers
1973
Women in Love
1969
The Brood
1979
The Four Musketeers
1974
Tommy
1975
Lion of the Desert
1981
Burnt Offerings
1976
Two of a Kind
1983
Castaway
1986
The Big Sleep
1978
The Prince and the Pauper
1977
The Hunting Party
1971
The League of Gentlemen
1960
The Curse of the Werewolf
1961
The Assassination Bureau
1969
Z.P.G.
1972
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960
The Sting II
1983
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
Paranoiac
1963
Captain Clegg
1962
The Jokers
1967
The Damned
1962
Venom
1981
Gor
1987
And Then There Were None
1974
Condorman
1981
Mahler
1974
Lisztomania
1975
Funny Bones
1995
Revolver
1973
The Pirates of Blood River
1962
The Pit and the Pendulum
1991
Fanny Hill
1983
Spasms
1983
The House of Usher
1989
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976
Royal Flash
1975
The Misfit Brigade
1987
Parting Shots
1999
The Trap
1966
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
1979
Ransom
1977
Hired to Kill
1990
Beat Girl
1960
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Oliver Reed
1938-02-13 · Wimbledon, London, England, UK
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".