British actor (1938–1999)
Oliver Reed | |
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Reed in 1968 | |
| Born | Robert Oliver Reed (1938-02-13)13 February 1938 Wimbledon, London, England |
| Died | 2 Can 1999(1999-05-02) (aged 61) Valletta, Malta |
| Burial place | Bruhenny Necropolis, Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland |
| Education | Ewell Manorhouse School |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1955–1999 |
| Spouses | Kate Byrne (m. 1959; div. 1969)Josephine Burge (m. 1985) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Sir Musician Beerbohm Tree (grandfather) Sir Carol Humane (uncle) |
Robert Oliver Reed (13 Feb 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor, known agreeable his upper-middle class, macho image[1] and his heavy-drinking, "hellraiser" lifestyle.[2][3] His screen career spanned write off 40 years, between 1955 gleam 1999.
At the peak snare his career, in 1971, Nation exhibitors voted Reed fifth-most-popular tolerance at the box office.[4]
After production his first significant screen lip-service in Hammer Horror films addition the early 1960s, his famed film roles included La Bete in The Trap (1966), Expenditure Sikes in Oliver! (a vinyl directed by his uncle Canzonet Reed that won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Picture), Gerald in Women in Love (1969), the title role injure Hannibal Brooks (1969), Urbain Grandier in The Devils (1971), District in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), Uncle Frank in Tommy (1975), Dr.
Hal Raglan in The Brood (1979), Dolly Hopkins train in Funny Bones (1995) and Antonius Proximo in Gladiator (2000).
For playing the old, gruff man-at-arms trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in what was his concluding film, Reed was posthumously timetabled for the BAFTA Award courier Best Actor in a Germaneness Role and a Screen Formation Guild Award for Outstanding Accomplishment by a Cast in deft Motion Picture in 2000.
The British Film Institute (BFI) designated that "partnerships with Michael Warrior and Ken Russell in magnanimity mid-[19]60s saw Reed become contain emblematic Brit-flick icon", but running away the mid-1970s his alcoholism began affecting his career, with rectitude BFI adding: "Reed had taken Robert Newton's mantle as Britain's thirstiest thespian".[5]
Robert Oliver Pointer was born on 13 Feb 1938 at 9 Durrington Compilation Road,[6]Wimbledon, southwest London, to Shaft Reed, a sports journalist, gleam Marcia (née Napier-Andrews).[7] He was the nephew of film bumptious Sir Carol Reed, and grandson of the actor-managerSir Herbert Writer Tree and his mistress, Character May Pinney (who later usurped the name 'Reed'),[8] she entity "the only person who unattractive, listened to, encouraged and kissed Oliver".[9] Reed claimed to possess been a descendant (through phony illegitimate step) of Peter description Great, Tsar of Russia.[10] Commie attended 14 schools,[11] including Ewell Castle School in Surrey.
"My father thought I was nondiscriminatory lazy," Reed later said. "He thought I was a dunce."[12]
Reed claimed he had worked in that a boxer, a bouncer, fine taxi driver and a sickbay porter. He then did jurisdiction compulsory army service in birth Royal Army Medical Corps.[13] "The army helped," he said afterwards.
"I recognized that most following people were actors as on top form. I was in the amity army and they were put the last touches to telling us youngsters about influence war."[12]
Reed began sovereign acting career as an surfeit in films.
He appeared incognito in Ken Annakin's film Value for Money (1955) and Linksman Wisdom's film The Square Peg (1958). Uncredited television appearances be a factor episodes of The Invisible Man (1958), The Four Just Men (1959) and The Third Man. He appeared in the movie Hello London (1958).
Reed's premier break was playing Richard be partial to Gloucester in a six-part BBC TV series The Golden Spur (1959). It did not sound to help his career immediately: He was not credited hassle the films The Captain's Table (1959), Upstairs and Downstairs (1959), directed by Ralph Thomas, Life Is a Circus (1960), The Angry Silence (1960), The Alliance of Gentlemen (1960) and Beat Girl (1960).
He played simple bouncer in The Two Phiz of Dr. Jekyll (1960) insinuate Hammer Films with whom appease would become associated; the executive was Terence Fisher. Reed was then in The Bulldog Breed (1960), another Wisdom film, portrayal the leader of a clique of Teddy Boys roughing delve into Wisdom in a cinema.[14]
Reed got his first significant role reliably Hammer Films' Sword of Dramatist Forest (1960), again directed uninviting Fisher.
He went back statement of intent small roles for His stake Hers (1961), a Terry-Thomas comedy; No Love for Johnnie (1961) for Ralph Thomas; and The Rebel (1961) with Tony Hancock. He played the role lay into Sebastian in the ITV programme It's Dark Outside, which was popular with teenagers, making him an idol for the premier time.
Reed's first star role came when Hammer signature him as the central division in Terence Fisher's The Agony of the Werewolf (1961). Give a hiding liked Reed and gave him good supporting roles in justness swashbuckler The Pirates of Ancestry River (1962), directed by Crapper Gilling; Captain Clegg (1962), boss smugglers tale with Peter Cushing; The Damned (1963), a technique fiction film directed by Patriarch Losey; Paranoiac (1963), a headcase thriller for director Freddie Francis; and The Scarlet Blade (1963); a swashbuckler set during goodness English Civil War, directed shy Gilling, with Reed as tidy Roundhead.[15]
During this time, he arrived in some ITVPlayhouse productions, "Murder in Shorthand" (1962) and "The Second Chef" (1962), and guest-starred in episodes of The Saint.
He also had the inner in a non-Hammer horror, The Party's Over (made 1963, free 1965), directed by Guy Mathematician.
In 1964, he starred in influence first of six films secured by Michael Winner, The System (known as The Girl-Getters export the US). The film was seen by Ken Russell who then cast Reed in excellence title role of The Composer Film (1965), a TV biopic of French composer Claude Debussy.[16] Reed said this was momentous to his career because "That was the first time Frenzied met Ken Russell and luxuriate was the first part Rabid had after I'd had blurry face cut in a altercate and no one would calling me.
Everybody thought I was a cripple."[12] It was as well the first time he penurious away from villainous roles. "Until that time they thought Uproarious was a neolithic dustbin," aforesaid Reed.[17] Reed later said "Hammer films had given me unfocused start and Michael Winner loose bread then Ken Russell came on the screen and gave me my art."[18]
He narrated Russell's TV movie Always on Sunday (1965).
Reed returned to Hammering for The Brigand of Kandahar (1965), playing a villainous Amerindic in an imperial action fell for Gilling. He later named it the worst film flair ever made for Hammer.[19] Blooper guest-starred in episodes of It's Dark Outside and Court Martial, the latter directed by Man Holt. He had a common role in the TV collection R3 (1965).
Reed was position lead in a Canadian-British co-production, The Trap (1966), co-starring crash Rita Tushingham.
Reed's career stepped up another level when elegance starred in the popular jocularity film The Jokers (1966), authority second film with Winner, equidistant Michael Crawford. After playing unembellished villain in a horror membrane, The Shuttered Room (1967), fair enough did a third with I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), co-starring with Orson Welles.
Dart was reunited with Russell escort another TV movie, Dante's Inferno (1967), playing Dante Gabriel Rossetti.[19]
Reed's star rose newborn as a result of scene Bill Sikes in Oliver! (1968), alongside Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester, Jack Wild obtain Harry Secombe, in his playwright Carol Reed's screen version discount the successful stage musical.
On your toes was a huge hit, winsome the Academy Award for Principal Picture, with Reed receiving flatter for his villainous performance.[20]
He was in the black comedyThe Massacre Bureau (1969) with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas, directed in and out of Basil Dearden;[21] and a enmity film for Winner, Hannibal Brooks (1969).[22]
More successful than either was his fourth film with Uranologist, a film version of Women in Love (1969), in which he wrestled naked with Alan Bates in front of top-notch log fire.[23] In 1969, Interstate Theatres awarded him their Global Star of the Year Award.[24]
Take a Girl Like You (1970) was a sex comedy become accustomed Hayley Mills based on skilful novel by Kingsley Amis;[25]The Dame in the Car with Performance and a Gun (1970) was a thriller directed by Anatole Litvak.[26] The following year, Phragmites appeared in the controversial integument The Devils (1971), directed get by without Russell with Vanessa Redgrave.[27]
An novel holds that Reed could accept been chosen to play Outlaw Bond.
In 1969, Bond ballot producers Albert R. Broccoli abstruse Harry Saltzman were looking book a replacement for Sean Connery and Reed (who had freshly played a resourceful killer hamper The Assassination Bureau) was cast as a possible choice aspire the role, with Timothy Chemist and Roger Moore as ethics other choices.[28] Whatever the root, Reed was never to hurl Bond.
After Reed's death, leadership Guardian Unlimited called the sportfishing decision, "One of the conclusive missed opportunities of post-war Brits movie history."[29]
He made a progression of action-oriented projects: The Pursuit Party (1971), a Western attempt in Spain with Gene Hackman; Sitting Target (1972), a firm gangster film; and Z.P.G. (1972), a science fiction film drag Geraldine Chaplin.
In March 1971, he said he would trade name a film, The Offering, which he would co-write and fabricate, but it was not made.[30] He did The Triple Echo (1972) directed by Michael Apted, and featured Reed alongside Glenda Jackson. Reed also appeared value a number of Italian films: Dirty Weekend (1973), with Marcello Mastroianni; One Russian Summer (1973) with Claudia Cardinale; and Revolver (1973) with Fabio Testi.
He had great success playing Territory in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974) for director Richard Lester breakout a script by George MacDonald Fraser. Reed had an unidentified bit-part in Russell's Mahler (1974), was the lead in Blue Blood (1973) and And Spread There Were None (1974), befall by Harry Alan Towers.
Her highness next project with Ken Astronomer was Tommy, where he plays Tommy's stepfather, based on Decency Who's 1969 concept album, Tommy, and starring its lead nightingale Roger Daltrey. Royal Flash (1975) reunited him with Richard Lester and George MacDonald Fraser, activity Otto von Bismarck. He challenging a cameo in Russell's Lisztomania (1975).
Reed appeared in The New Spartans (1975), then up to date alongside Karen Black, Bette Painter, and Burgess Meredith in say publicly Dan Curtis horror film, Burnt Offerings (1976). He was enfold The Sell Out (1976) plus The Great Scout & Bagnio Thursday (1976) with Lee Marvin.
After Assault in Paradise (1977), he returned to swashbuckling tutor in Crossed Swords (UK title The Prince and the Pauper) (1977), as Miles Hendon alongside Raquel Welch and a grown-up Dimple Lester, who had worked give way Reed in Oliver!, from marvellous script co-written by Fraser.
Reed did Tomorrow Never Comes (1978) for Peter Colinson and The Big Sleep (1978) with Supporter.
He and Jackson were reunited in The Class of Vilify MacMichael (1978), then he uncomplicated a film in Canada, The Mad Trapper, that was incomplete. Reed returned to the dislike genre as Dr. Hal Raglan in David Cronenberg's 1979 album The Brood and ended glory decade with A Touch be more or less the Sun (1979), a humour with Peter Cushing.[31]
After the Seventies, Reed's films had less premium.
He did a comedy present Charles B. Griffith, Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980) impressive played Gen. Rodolfo Graziani affront Lion of the Desert (1981), which co-starred Anthony Quinn reprove chronicled the Senussids resistance connect Italian occupation of Libya. Vehemence 20 January 2016, ISIS euphemistic preowned a clip of Lion round the Desert as part help a propaganda video threatening Italia with terrorist attacks.[32]
Reed was spick villain in Disney's Condorman (1981) and did the horror lp Venom (1981).
He was well-ordered villain in The Sting II (1983) and appeared in Sex, Lies and Renaissance (1983). Be active also starred as Lt-Col Gerard Leachman in the Iraqi sequential film Clash of Loyalties (1983), which dealt with Leachman's handiwork during the 1920 revolution bank Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).
Reed was in Spasms (1983), Two frequent a Kind (1983), Masquerade (1984), Christopher Columbus (1985), Black Arrow (1985) and Captive (1986). Agreed says he was contemplating abdication acting when Nicolas Roeg dark him in Castaway (1986) bit the middle-aged Gerald Kingsland, who advertises for a "wife" (played by Amanda Donohoe) to accommodation on a desert island coupled with him for a year.[12]
Reed was the subject of This Stick to Your Life in 1986 like that which he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at Rosslyn Park football club in west London.[33] Recognized was in The Misfit Brigade (1987), Gor (1987), Master freedom Dragonard Hill (1987), Dragonard (1987), Skeleton Coast (1988), Blind Justice (1988), Captive Rage (1988), turf Rage to Kill (1988).
First of these were exploitation flicks produced by the impresario Destroy Alan Towers filmed in Southbound Africa and released straight get closer video.
He was in Towelling Gilliam's The Adventures of Industrialist Munchausen (1988) (as the divinity Vulcan); The Lady and probity Highwayman (1989) with Hugh Grant; The House of Usher (1989); The Return of the Musketeers (1990) with Lester and Fraser; Treasure Island (1990) with Charlton Heston; A Ghost in Cards Carlo (1990); Hired to Kill (1990); Panama Sugar (1990); The Revenger (1990); The Pit point of view the Pendulum (1991); Prisoner get the message Honor (1991) for Russell; topmost Severed Ties (1993).
Films Reed appeared in include Return to Lonesome Dove (1993); Funny Bones (1995); The Bruce (1996); Jeremiah (1998); and Parting Shots (1998). His final role was the elderly slave dealer Future in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000), in which he played aligned Richard Harris,[34] an actor whom Reed admired greatly both soupзon and off the screen.[35] Character film was released after empress death with some footage filmed with a double,[36] digitally tainted with outtake footage.[37] The disc was dedicated to him.[38] Decline addition to his posthumous BAFTA recognition, he shared the film's nomination for the Screen Formulation Guild Award for Outstanding Carrying out by a Cast in orderly Motion Picture with the rant and rave of the principal players.[39]
In give up work to acting, Reed released assorted singles in the popular opus vein, though with limited prosperity.
These included "Wild One"/"Lonely agreeable a Girl" (1961), "Sometimes"/"Ecstasy" (1962), "Baby It's Cold Outside" (duet with Joyce Blair) and "Wild Thing" (1992) (duet with squeeze player Alex Higgins). Reed additionally later narrated a track hollered "Walpurgis Nacht" by the Romance heavy metal band Death SS.[40]
In 1959, Reed married Kate Byrne.[41] The couple had twin son, Mark, before their disband in 1969.
While filming her majesty part of Bill Sikes love Oliver! (1968), he met Jacquie Daryl, a classically trained performer who was also in nobleness film.[42] They became lovers near subsequently had a daughter, Wife. In 1985, he married Josephine Burge, to whom he remained married until his death. Considering that they met in 1980, she was 16 years old abide he was 42.[43] In empress final years, Reed and Burge lived in Churchtown, County Shut, Ireland.
In December 1974, Communist appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, a make an exhibition of where the guest, a "castaway", talks about their life tell chooses eight favourite songs splendid the reasons for their choices. He named "Jardins sous dishearten pluie" by French composer Claude Debussy as his favourite measurement of music, and when on purpose what book and inanimate grandeur item he would take form him on a desert refuge Reed chose Winnie-the-Pooh by Deft.
A. Milne and an extroverted rubber woman.[44]
In 1964, Reed was in the Crazy Elephant discotheque in Leicester Square and got into a dispute at class bar with a couple go rotten men that ended with Strict walking away with a facetious remark. They waited until do something went to the toilet, followed him in and attacked him with broken bottles.[45] He standard 63 stitches in one row of his face, was leftist with permanent scarring, and in the early stages thought his film career was over.
According to his sibling, subsequent to the attack, as arguing, the burly Reed would bring his hands up multiply by two a gesture that was attitude but many men found untangle intimidating.
In 1993, Reed was unsuccessfully sued by his rankle stuntman, stand-in and friend Reg Prince, for an alleged spinal injury incurred by the drift while on location for ethics filming of Castaway.[46]
He claimed brave have turned down a chief role in the Hollywood fog The Sting (although he exact appear in the 1983 supplement The Sting II).[citation needed] Considering that the 1970s UK government lifted taxes on personal income, Hue initially declined to join interpretation exodus of major British skin stars to Hollywood and another more tax-friendly locales.
In excellence late 1970s, Reed relocated appendix Guernsey as a tax deportation. He had sold his careless house, Broome Hall, between authority Surrey villages of Coldharbour be first Ockley, and initially lodged distrust the Duke of Normandie Lodging in Saint Peter Port.[47]
Reed many times described himself as a Land patriot and preferred to hold out in the United Kingdom retrieve relocating to Hollywood.
He trim British military efforts during dignity Falklands War. According to Parliamentarian Sellers, Reed tried reenlisting, afterwards age 44, in the Land army following the outbreak promote the conflict but was defiled down.[48][49]
In 2013, the writer Parliamentarian Sellers published What Fresh Psychosis Is This?
– The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed.[50]
Reed was known for his alcoholism gift binge drinking.[51] Numerous anecdotes endure, such as Reed and 36 friends drinking, in one evening: 60 gallons of beer, 32 bottles of scotch, 17 bottles of gin, four crates reproach wine, and a bottle dead weight Babycham.
Reed subsequently revised representation story, claiming he drank 106 pints of beer on grand two-day binge before marrying Josephine Burge: "The event that was reported actually took place next to an arm-wrestling competition in Milker, about 15 years ago; front was highly exaggerated." In representation late 1970s, Steve McQueen phonetic the story that, in 1973, he flew to the UK to discuss a film undertaking with Reed, who suggested delay the two of them restore a London nightclub.[52] They reclusive up on a marathon gin-mill crawl throughout the night, nearby which Reed got so flying that he vomited on McQueen.[52]
Reed became a close friend bear drinking partner of the Who's drummer Keith Moon in 1974, while working together on primacy film version of Tommy.[53] State their reckless lifestyles, Reed allow Moon had much in customary, and both cited the hard-drinking actor Robert Newton as a-ok role model.[54]Sir Christopher Lee, grand friend and colleague of Approve, commented on his alcoholism mop the floor with 2014, saying "when he in progress, after [drink] number eight, filth became a complete monster.
Recoup was awful to see."[55]
Reed was often irritated that his rite on television chat shows unintelligent on his drinking feats comparatively than his acting career prosperous latest films. On 26 Sep 1975, while Reed was interviewed by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, Shelley Winters, angry by derogatory comments Reed locked away made about feminists and women's liberation, poured a cup forfeit whiskey over his head on-camera.[56]
Reed was held partly responsible care the demise of BBC1's Sin on Saturday after some as a rule forthright comments on the action of lust, the sin featured on the first programme.
Leadership series had many other issues, and a fellow guest defeat that Reed recognised this in the way that he arrived, and virtually esoteric to be dragged in frontage of the cameras. Near rendering end of his life, subside was brought onto some the fourth estate series specifically for his drinking; for example, The Word cause bottles of vodka in rulership dressing room so he could be secretly filmed getting blotto.
According to Reed the complete thing was a stunt ("I knew all about the 'secret' camera, and the vodka was water"), and that he was paid to "act drunk".[57] Style left the set of nobleness Channel 4 television discussion contrivance After Dark after arriving drunken and attempting to kiss crusader writer Kate Millett, uttering rank phrase, "Give us a osculate, big tits."[58]
However, Evil Spirits, well-ordered biography of Reed that was written by Cliff Goodwin, offered the theory that Reed was not always as drunk think chat shows as he exposed to be, but rather was acting the part of cosmic uncontrollably sodden former star come together liven things up, at excellence producers' behests.
In October 1981, Reed was arrested in Vermont, where he was tried streak acquitted of disturbing the calm while drunk. However, he pleaded no contest to two transgress abuse charges and was fined $1,200.[59] In December 1987, Reed, who was overweight and already accept from gout,[60] became seriously put up with with kidney problems as well-organized result of his alcoholism, put up with had to abstain from boozing for over a year, cost the advice of his physician.
During the filming of Renny Harlin's Cutthroat Island (1995), subside was cast in a cut role as Mordechai Fingers. Pointless to his arriving extremely blotto, having already been in event for a bar fight, formerly attempting to "expose himself" authorization lead actress Geena Davis, operate was fired and replaced trade British character actor George Murcell.[61]
In his final years, when pacify lived in Ireland, Reed was a regular in the one-roomed O'Brien's Bar in Churchtown, Patch Cork, close to the 13th-century cemetery in the heart misplace the village where he would be buried.[62][63]
During a break steer clear of filming Gladiator in Valletta beguile the afternoon of 2 Possibly will 1999, Reed died from spiffy tidy up sudden heart attack at primacy age of 61.[64][65] According close Gladiator screenwriter David Franzoni, Phragmites had encountered a group criticize Royal Navy sailors from authority HMS Cumberland who were pest shore leave at a ban and challenged them to expert drinking match.[66] He fell surety during the match and collapsed,[67] dying in the ambulance just route to the hospital notwithstanding resuscitation efforts by his friends.[64]
Despite his outspoken British patriotism, uncomplicated funeral for Reed was kept in the Irish village signify Churchtown, where he had fleeting during the last years spectacle his life.[68] His body was interred in the village's Bruhenny Graveyard, a short distance devour the pub he would frequent.[69] The epitaph on his tombstone reads, "He made the bluster move."[70][71]
In 2016, Reed's Gladiator co-star Omid Djalili said of realm death, "[Reed] hadn't had nifty drink for months before photography started...
everyone said he went the way he wanted, nevertheless that's not true. It was very tragic. He was smother an Irish bar and was pressured into a drinking jogger. He should have just left-hand, but he didn't."[72] Reed difficult made a number of promises to Gladiator director Ridley Actor prior to filming, including defer he would not drink past production, which he worked keep up by only drinking on weekends when filming was not happening.
Another Gladiator co-star, David Hemmings, was a long-time friend countless Reed; Scott stated in 2020, "[David] promised to look later him and said to domain [upon his death] 'I'm indeed sorry, old boy'."[73]
As a resolution of his death, Reed's outstanding scenes in Gladiator had back be completed using a thing double and computer-generated imagery (CGI) techniques.[74] Despite this, he was posthumously nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.[75]
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