Oliver Reed

At 61 years old, Oliver Reed has this physical status:

Career

Reed began his acting career as an extra in films. In Ken Annakin's film Value for Money (1955), he appeared uncredited. The Square Peg (1958) by Norman Wisdom's film The Square Peg (1958). Episodes of The Invisible Man (1958), The Four Just Men (1959), and The Third Man were among uncredited television appearances. He appeared in the film Hello London (1958).

In a six-part BBC TV series The Golden Spur (1959), Reed's first break was playing Richard of Gloucester. It didn't appear in the films The Captain's Table (1959), Upstairs and Downstairs (1959), directed by Ralph Thomas (1960), The Angry Silence (1960), and Beat Girl (1960). In The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) for Hammer Films, he was a bouncer; the director was Terence Fisher; he would become a director. Reed was in The Bulldog Breed (1960), another Wisdom film, playing the leader of a group of Teddy Boys roughing up Wisdom in a cinema.

Reed appeared in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), which was also directed by Fisher. He went back to small parts for His and Hers (1961), a Terry-Thomas comedy; No Love for Johnnie (1961) for Ralph Thomas; and The Rebel (1961) with Tony Hancock.

Reed's first acting appearance came in Hammer's The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). Reed loved him and gave him good supporting roles in The Pirates of Blood River (1962), a science fiction film directed by John Gilling; Captain Clegg (1963), a swashbuckler set during the English Civil War, with Reed as a Roundhead; The Devil's (1963), a biographical drama starring Peter Cushing; and The Scarlet Blade (1963), a swashbuckler set during the English Civil War; Captain Clegg (1963), a

He appeared in two ITV Playhouse plays, "Murder in Shorthand" (1962), and "The Second Chef" (1962), and guest-starred in episodes of The Saint. He was also the leader of a non-Hammer terror, The Party's Over (made 1963, 1965), directed by Guy Hamilton.

He appeared in the first of six films directed by Michael Winner, The System (also known as The Girl-Getters in the United States) in 1964. Ken Russell, who later starred Reed in the title role of The Debussy Film (1965), a TV biopic of Claude Debussy, was seen in the film. "It was the first time I met Ken Russell, and it was the first part I had after my face was cut in a fight and no one would employ me," Reed said. "I was a cripple," everybody thought. It was also the first time he had left villainous roles. "I thought I was a neolithic dustbin before," Reed said. "Hammer films had given me my start and Michael Winner's bread," Reed said later, before Ken Russell came on and gave me my art."

On Sunday (1965), Russell narrated Russell's TV film Always On Sunday (1965). Reed reprised his role in The Brigand of Kandahar (1965), portraying a villainous Indian in an imperial action film for Gilling. Later, he called it the worst film he's ever made for Hammer. He appeared in episodes of It's Cold Outside and Court Martial, the latter being directed by Seth Holt. He appeared in the television series R3 (1965). Reed was the lead in a Canadian-British co-production The Trap (1966), co-starring Rita Tushingham.

Reed's career took him to a different level when he appeared in the famous comedy film The Jokers (1966), his second film with Winner Michael Crawford. After appearing in a horror film as a villain in The Shuttered Room (1967), he did a third with Winner, I'll Never Forget What's' name (1967), co-starring Orson Welles. Reed and Russell were reunited in a new television film, Dante's Inferno (1967), starring Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Reed's fame soared even more as a result of his appearance in Oliver, where he was still playing Bill Sikes. (1968), alongside Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester, Jack Wild, and Harry Secombe in his uncle's screen adaptation of the hit stage musical. Reed received accolades for his villainous appearance and landed the Academy Award for Best Picture.

He appeared in the black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969) with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas, directed by Basil Dearden; and a war film for winner Hannibal Brooks (1969).

Russell's fourth film in which he wrestled naked with Alan Bates in front of a log fire was more lucrative than either. In 1969, the Interstate Theatres in the United States awarded him the International Star of the Year Award.

Take a Girl Like You (1970) was a sex comedy based on a book by Kingsley Amis; The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970) was a thriller produced by Anatole Litvak. Reed appeared in Russell's tumultuous film The Devils (1971), directed by Vanessa Redgrave.

Reed may have been chosen to play James Bond, according to an anecdote. Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, a Bond franchisee, was on the hunt for a Sean Connery and Reed replacement (who had recently played a resourceful killer in The Assassination Bureau), so they were considered a potential replacement for the position, with Timothy Dalton and Roger Moore as the other options. Reed was never to play Bond, whatever the reason. The Guardian Unlimited announced Reed's casting choice as "one of the most great missed opportunities of post-war British cinema history."

He made a series of action-oriented projects: The Hunting Party (1971), a Western shot with Gene Hackman; Sitting Target (1972), a tough gangster film; and Z.P.G. Geraldine Chaplin stars in a science fiction film (1972) a science fiction film. He predicted that he'd make The Offering, which he would co-write and produce, but it wasn't made in March 1971. He produced The Triple Echo (1972), directed by Michael Apted, and featured Reed alongside Glenda Jackson. Reed appeared in a number of Italian films: Dirty Weekend (1973), with Marcello Mastroianni; One Russian Summer (1973) with Claudia Cardinale; and Revolver (1973) with Fabio Testi.

In The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), Richard Lester's script was a hit. Reed, who had an uncredited bit-part in Russell's Mahler (1974), was the lead in Blue Blood (1973) and And Then There Were None (1974), both of Harry Alan Towers. Tommy, Ken Russell's next project, was based on The Who's 1969 concept album Tommy, starring its lead singer Roger Daltrey. This was King Flash (1975) who reunited him with Richard Lester and George MacDonald Fraser, who appeared as Otto von Bismarck in his film Otto von Bismarck. He appeared in Russell's Lisztomania (1975).

Reed appeared in The New Spartans (1975), later appeared alongside Karen Black, Bette Davis, and Burgess Meredith in Dan Curtis' Dan Curtis horror film Burnt Offerings (1976). With Lee Marvin, he was in The Sell Out (1976) and The Great Scout & Cathouse on Thursday (1976). Miles Hendon, a British author who had worked with Reed in Oliver (1977), returned to swashbuckling in Crossed Swords (1977), as Miles Hendon, Raquel Welch, and a grown-up Mark Lester, co-written by Fraser.

Reed did Tomorrow Never Comes (1978) with Winner Peter Colinson and The Big Sleep (1978) with Winner. In The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978), he and Jackson were reunited, then he made The Mad Trapper, a film in Canada that was unfinished. Reed appeared in David Cronenberg's 1979 film The Brood, a comedy with Peter Cushing, and then moved to the horror genre as Dr. Hal Raglan.

Reed's films had less success in the 1970s than they did in the 1970s. Mr. Griffith, Dr. Heckyl, and Mr. Laughter performed a comedy for him. Hype (1980) and Gen. Rodolfo Graziani appeared in Lion of the Desert (1981), which co-starred Anthony Quinn and chronicled Libya's resistance to Italian occupation. ISIS distributed a clip of Lion of the Desert as part of a propaganda film threatening Italy with terrorist attacks on January 20, 2016.

Reed appeared in Disney's Condorman (1981) and appeared in Venom (1981). He was a villain in The Sting II (1983) and appeared in Sex, Lies, and Renaissance (1983). In the Iraqi historical film Al-Mas' Al-Kubra (a.k.a. ), he also appeared as Lt-Col Gerard Leachman. Clash of Loyalties (1983), which dealt with Leachman's defiance during the 1920 revolution in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). Reed was in Spasms (1983), Two of a Kind (1983), Masquerade (1984), Christopher Columbus (1985), Black Arrow (1985) and Captive (1986). When Nicolas Roeg cast him in Castaway (1986) as a middle-aged Gerald Kingsland (played by Amanda Donohoe) to live on a desert island with him for a year, he says he was considering quitting acting.

When Reed was welcomed by Eamonn Andrews at Rosslyn Park rugby club in west London in 1986, he was the subject of This Is Your Life. Reed (1987), Greyhound (1987), Corse (1988), Dragonard (1987), San Diego (1988), Rage to Kill (1988), and Worse to Kill (1988). The bulk of these were exploitation films made by impresario Harry Alan Towers and then released straight to video in South Africa.

He was in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) (as the god Vulcan); The Lady and the Highwayman (1990) with Hugh Grant; The Return of the Musketeers (1990) with Russell (1990); and Severed Ties (1993);

Reed appeared in films such as Return to Lonesome Dove (1993); Funny Bones (1995); Jeremiah (1998); and Parting Shots (1998). In Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000), he played elderly slave dealer Proximo, an actor whom Reed adored both on and off film. After his death, the film was released with a video of a double-digitally mixed with outtake footage. He was the subject of the film. In addition to his posthumous BAFTA award, he announced the film's nomination for Outstanding Achievement by a Cast in a Motion Picture with the rest of the main actors.

Reed performed several singles in the popular music style, but with limited success. "Wild One"/"Lonely for a Girl" (1961), "Sometimes"/"Ecstasy" (1962), "Baby It's Cold Outside" (duet with Joyce Blair) and "Wild Thing" (1992) were among the items that were featured in "Wild Thing" (1992). Later, Oliver narrated a track called "Walpurgis Night" by the Italian heavy metal band Death SS, which was also narrated.

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