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Oliver Reed Biography (1938-1999)

Full name, Robert Oliver Reed; born February 13, 1938, in Wimbledon, London,England; died of a heart attack, May 2, 1999, in Valletta, Malta; son of Peter (a journalist) and Marcia (Andrews) Reed; nephew of Carol Reed (a director); grandson of Herbert Beerbohm Tree (an actor and producer); married Katherine Byrne, 1959 (divorced, 1969); married Jackie Daryl, 1969 (divorced, 1970);married Josephine Burge, 1985; children: (first marriage) Mark Thurloe; (second marriage) Sarah.

Nationality

British

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor

Birth Details

February 13, 1938

Wimbledon, London, England

Death Details

May 2, 1999

Valletta, Malta

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Appearances
• The Square Peg, Rank, 1958
• Himself, Hello London (also known as London Calling), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958
• (Uncredited) The Captain's Table (also known as Shenanigans), Rank, 1959
• Plaid shirt, Beat Girl (also known as Wild for Kicks), Victoria, 1959
• Artist in cafe, The Rebel (also known as Call Me Genius), Associated British, 1960
• (Uncredited) Chorus boy, The League of Gentlemen, Rank/Allied FilmMakers, 1960
• Mick, The Angry Silence, British Lion, 1960
• (Uncredited) Teddy boy, The Bulldog Breed, Rank, 1960
• Brocaire (a pirate), The Pirates of Blood River, Hammer Films, 1961
• Guest, No Love for Johnnie, Rank/Five Star, 1961
• King, The Damned (also known as These Are the Damned), Hammer Films, 1961
• Lord Melton, Sword of Sherwood Forest, Columbia, 1961
• Night club bouncer, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (also known as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, House of Fright, and Jekyll's Inferno), American International Pictures, 1961
• Poet, His and Hers, Eros, 1961
• The werewolf Leon, Curse of the Werewolf (also known as The Curse of Siniestro), Universal International/Hammer Films, 1961
• Harry Crabtree (one sources says Harry Cobtree), Night Creatures (also known as Captain Clegg), Universal, 1962
• Simon Ashby, Paranoiac, Universal International/Hammer Films, 1963
• Captain Tom Sylvester, The Scarlet Blade (also known as The Crimson Blade), Columbia, 1964
• Tinker, The System, Bryanston, 1964 , released in the United States as The Girl-Getters, American International Pictures, 1966
• Masquerade, United Artists/Novus, 1965
• Ali Khan, The Brigand of Kandahar, Columbia, 1966
• Jean La Bete, The Trap (also known as The Mad Trapper and L'aventure sauvage), Continental Distribution, 1966
• Moise, The Party's Over, Allied Artists, 1966
• Andrew Quint, I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name, Regional, 1967
• David Tremayne, The Jokers, United Artists, 1967
• Bill Sikes, Oliver!, Columbia, 1968
• Ethan, The Shuttered Room (also known as Blood Island), Warner Bros./Seven Arts, 1968
• Gerald Crich, Women in Love, United Artists, 1969
• Title role, Hannibal Brooks, United Artists, 1969
• Ivan Dragomiloff, The Assassination Bureau, Paramount, 1969
• Patrick Standish, Take a Girl Like You, Columbia, 1970
• Frank Calder, The Hunting Party, United Artists, 1971
• Michael Caldwell, The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (alsoknown as The Lady in the Car and Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil), Columbia, 1971
• Russ McNeil, Z.P.G. (also known as Edict, The First of January, and Zero Population Growth), Sagittarius Films, 1971
• Urbain Grandier (a Jesuit priest), The Devils (also known as The Devils of Loudon), Warner Bros., 1971
• Fabrizio, Dirty Weekend, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1972
• Harry Lomart, Sitting Target, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1972
• Mordi e fuggi (also known as Rapt a l'italienne), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Italy, 1973
• Palizyn, Days of Fury (also known as One Russian Summer andIl giorno del furore), VCI Home Video, 1973
• Sergeant, Triple Echo (also known as Soldier in Skirts), Altura Films, 1973
• Tom, Blue Blood, Mallard-Impact Quadrant, 1973
• Vito Caprini, Revolver (also known as Blood in the Streetsand La poursuite implacable), Independent International, 1973
• Athos, The Three Musketeers (also known as Los tres mosqueteros), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974
• Train conductor, Mahler, Visual Programme, 1974
• Athos, The Four Musketeers (also known as The Revenge of Milady and Los cuatro mosqueteros), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975
• Frank Hobbs, Tommy (also known as Tommy by The Who and The Who's Tommy), Columbia, 1975
• Hugh Lombard, And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians, Diez negritos, Dix petits negres, Ein Unbekannter rechnet ab, ... e poi non ne rimase nessuno, and Zehn kleine Negerlein), Avco-Embassy, 1975
• Otto von Bismarck, Royal Flash, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975
• (Uncredited) Princess Carolyn's servant, Lisztomania, Warner Bros., 1975
• Ben Rolf, Burnt Offerings, United Artists, 1976
• Gabriel Lee, The Sell-Out (also known as The Sellout and The Set-Up), Hemdale, 1976
• Joseph Pendergast "Joe" Knox, Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday (also known as Wildcat), American International Pictures, 1976
• Jim Wilson, Tomorrow Never Comes, Rank, 1977
• Nick McCormick, Ransom (also known as Assault on Paradise, Maniac!, and The Town That Cried Terror), New World Pictures, 1977
• Eddie Mars, The Big Sleep, United Artists, 1978
• Miles Hendon, Crossed Swords (also known as The Prince and thePauper), Warner Bros., 1978
• Terence Sutton, The Class of Miss MacMichael, Brut/Kettledrum, 1978
• Captain Daniel Nelson, A Touch of the Sun (also known as No Secrets), \[Great Britain\], 1979
• Dr. Hal Raglan, The Brood (also known as La clinique de la terreur), New World Pictures, 1979
• Title roles, Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype, Cannon, 1980
• The Great Question, 1981
• General Rodolfo Graziani, Lion of the Desert (also known as Omar Mukhtar and Omar Mukhtar: Lion of the Desert), United Film Distributors, 1981
• Krokov, Condorman, Buena Vista, 1981
• Dave, Venom, Paramount, 1982
• Beasley, Two of a Kind, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983
• Doyle Lonnegan, The Sting II, Universal, 1983
• Jason Kincaid, Death Bite (also known as Spasms), ProducersDistributors, 1983
• Mr. Widdlecome, Fanny Hill (also known as Fanny Hill--Die Memoiren eines Freudenmadchen and Fanny Hill--Die Memoiren eines Freudenmaedchen), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Video, 1984
• Gerald Kingsland (one source says Gerald Kingsfield), Castaway, Island Alive, 1986
• Gregory Le Vay, Captive (also known as Heroine), CineTel Films, 1986
• Rage to Kill, Action International Pictures, 1987
• Captain Shanks, Master of Dragonard Hill (also known as Dragonard), Media Home Entertainment, 1987
• The general, The Misfit Brigade (also known as Wheels of Terror), Trans World, 1987
• Balinger, Blind Justice (also known as Hold My Hand, I'm Dying), Castle Home Video, 1988
• General Belmondo, Captive Rage (also known as Fair Trade),Management Company Entertainment, 1988
• Roderick Usher, The House of Usher (also known as The Fall of the House of Usher), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1988
• Sarm, Gor, Cannon, 1988
• Outlaws, 1989
• The Revenger (also known as Sax Man), Action InternationalPictures, 1989
• Athos, The Return of the Musketeers (also known as Return of the Three Musketeers and El regreso de los mosqueteros), Universal,1989
• Captain Simpson, Skeleton Coast (also known as Coast of Skeletons), Silvertree, 1989
• Vulcan, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (also known as Die Abenteuer des Baron von Muenchhausen and Die Abenteuer des Baron von Munchhausen), Columbia/TriStar, 1989
• General, Panama Sugar (also known as Panama, Panama Sugar and the Dog Thief, and Panama zucchero), Delta Film, 1990
• Cardinal, The Pit and the Pendulum (also known as The Inquisitor), Paramount, 1991
• Michael Bartos, Hired to Kill, Paramount Home Video, 1991
• Dr. Hans Vaughan, Severed Ties, Columbia/TriStar Home Video, 1992
• Bishop Robert Wishart, The Bruce, Cromwell Productions, 1996
• Dolly Hopkins, Funny Bones, Buena Vista, 1996
• Marco Polo (also known as The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo and Marco Polo: Return to Xanadu), Avalanche Home Entertainment, 1998
• Jamie Campbell-Stewart, Parting Shots, Scimitar Films, 1999
• Proximo, Gladiator, DreamWorks, 2000
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Dr. Richard Franklin, R3, BBC, 1964-65
• Sebastian, It's Dark Outside, Granada Television, 1964-65
• Miniseries
• Martin Pinzon, Christopher Columbus, CBS, 1985
• Gregor Dunnegan, Return to Lonesome Dove, CBS, 1993
• Movies
• Sir Daniel, Black Arrow (also known as La flecha negra), The Disney Channel, 1985
• Sir Phillip Gage, The Lady and the Highwayman, CBS, 1989
• Captain Billy Bones, Treasure Island, TNT, 1990
• The rajah, A Ghost in Monte Carlo, TNT, 1990
• General Boisdeffre, Prisoner of Honor, HBO, 1991
• Professor Norbert Marcus, Die Tunnelgangster von Berlin, \[Germany\], 1993
• Specials
• Actor playing Debussy, "The Debussy Film," Monitor, BBC, 1965
• Narrator, "Always on Sunday," Monitor, BBC, 1965
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Dante's Inferno" (also known as "Omnibus: Dante's Inferno"), Omnibus, BBC, 1967
• Circus of the Stars, CBS, 1977
• Episodic
• Joe Catelli, "The King of Beggars," The Saint, Associated Television, Incorporated Television Company, and syndicated, 1963
• Aristides, "Sophia," The Saint, Associated Television, Incorporated Television Company, and syndicated, 1964
• Also impersonated himself in Aspel and Company, London Weekend Television.
• Pilots
• Masquerade, ABC, 1983
• Other Television Appearances
• General Safan, Jeremiah, \[United States, Italy, and Germany\], 1998
• WRITINGS
• Autobiographies
• Reed All about Me: The Autobiography of Oliver Reed, W. H. Allen (London, England), 1979

Further Reference

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

• Entertainment Weekly, May 14, 1999, p. 18.
• Film Comment, July 14, 1999, p. 32.
• Variety, May 10, 1999, p. 150.