Oliver Reed
Highest Rated: 100% Castaway (1987)
Lowest Rated: 0% The Sting II (1983)
Birthday: Feb 13, 1938
Birthplace: Wimbledon, London, England, UK
A versatile performer who made his living playing ruthless villains, actor Oliver Reed also developed a reputation as one of the bad boys of British cinema. In the 1960s and 1970s, he - along with pals Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole - notoriously raised hell while drinking themselves into oblivion, leaving behind a long line of battered hotel rooms and broken bones, courtesy of numerous bar fights. With no formal training to speak of, Reed burst onto the scene with "The Curse of the Werewolf" (1961) and delivered a memorable performance as the evil Bill Sykes in the Oscar-winning musical "Oliver!" (1968). He was delightful as the amoral head of "The Assassination Bureau" (1969), and was at his swashbuckling best as Athos in "The Three Musketeers" (1973) and its sequel "The Four Musketeers" (1974). From there, Reed embarked on a series of misbegotten films like "The Big Sleep" (1978), "The Sting II" (1983) and "Castaway" (1986), none of which added any value to his career. Reed had a bit of fun as the evil Vulcan in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988) and Billy Bones in "Treasure Island" (TNT, 1990), only to once again make several rather forgettable pictures. But Reed began reviving himself once more late in his career, only to suffer a fatal heart attack in the midst of production on the Oscar-winning "Gladiator" (2000), leaving behind a long career that to critics and fans seemed unworthy of the actor's considerable gifts.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77% | 87% | Gladiator | Proximo (Character) | $187.7M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Parting Shots | Jamie Campbell-Stewart (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Marco Polo | Captain Cornelius Donovan (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | Jeremiah | General Safan (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bruce | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 61% | 82% | Funny Bones | Dolly Hopkins (Character) | $527K | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Severed Ties | Doctor Hans Vaughan (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Prisoner of Honor | Gen. de Boisdeffre (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 56% | 39% | The Pit and the Pendulum | Cardinal (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Hired to Kill | Michael Bartos (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | Treasure Island | Capt. Billy Bones (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That's Action | Unknown (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Revenger | Jack Fisher (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | The Rajah (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 92% | 82% | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Vulcan (Character) | $8.6M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | The Lady and the Highwayman | Sir Phillip Gage (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 60% | 34% | The Return of the Musketeers | Athos (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | The House of Usher | Roderick Usher (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Captive Rage | General Belmondo (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Skeleton Coast | Capt. Simpson (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fair Trade | General Belmondo (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blind Justice | Ballinger (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 2% | Gor | Sarm (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hold My Hand, I'm Dying | Ballinger (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dragonard | Captain Shanks (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Master of Dragonard Hill | Captain Shanks (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | Wheels of Terror | The General (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 100% | 73% | Castaway | Gerald Kingsland (Character) | $229.9K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rage to Kill | Gen. Turner (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Captive | Gregory Le Vay (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Arrow | Sir Daniel (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 18% | 37% | Two of a Kind | Beasley (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | Spasms | Jason Kincaid (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Fanny Hill | Mr. Edward Widdlecome (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 0% | 29% | The Sting II | Lonnegan (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 23% | 65% | Condorman | Krokov (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 43% | 31% | Venom | Dave Averconnelly (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 71% | 93% | Lion of the Desert | Gen. Rodolfo Graziani (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype |
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- | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Secrets | Captain Daniel Nelson (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 83% | 68% | The Brood | Dr. Hal Raglan (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Tomorrow Never Comes | Jim Wilson (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Class of Miss MacMichael | Terence Sutton (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Crossed Swords | Miles Hendon (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 67% | 27% | The Big Sleep | Eddie Mars (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Maniac | Unknown (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ransom | Nick McCormick (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday | Joe Knox (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 54% | 43% | Burnt Offerings | Ben Rolf (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | The Sellout | Gabriel Lee (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Royal Flash | Otto von Bismarck (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | Blood in the Streets | Vito Cipriani (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Ten Little Indians | Hugh Lombard (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 70% | 71% | Tommy | Frank Hobbs (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 76% | 75% | The Four Musketeers | Athos (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Triple Echo | Sergeant (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blue Blood | Tom (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 86% | 78% | The Three Musketeers | Athos (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Russian Summer | Palizyn (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Sitting Target | Harry Lomart (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | Z.P.G. | Russ McNeil (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Age of Pisces | Unknown (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dirty Weekend | Fabrizo (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 67% | 89% | The Devils | Urbain Grandier (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 20% | 53% | The Hunting Party | Frank Calder (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun | Michael Caldwell (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Take a Girl Like You | Patrick Standish (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 75% | 72% | The Assassination Bureau | Ivan Dragomiloff (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Hannibal Brooks | Hannibal Brooks (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 83% | 75% | Women in Love | Gerald Crich (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 82% | 81% | Oliver! | Bill Sikes (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The Trap | La Bete (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name | Andrew Quint (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | The Jokers | David Tremayne (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | The Shuttered Room | Ethan (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Brigand of Kandahar | Ali Khan (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | The Crimson Blade | Capt. Tom Sylvester (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The System | Tinker (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Paranoiac | Simon Ashby (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 86% | 52% | These Are the Damned | King (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Night Creatures | Harry Cobtree (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | The Pirates of Blood River | Brocaire (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 50% | 58% | The Curse of the Werewolf | Leon Corledo (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Sword of Sherwood Forest | Lord Melton (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | No Love for Johnnie | Man with Bucket on His Head (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Wild for Kicks | Plaid Shirt (Character) | - | 1960 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Return to Lonesome Dove | Unknown (Character) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christopher Columbus | Martin Pinzon (Character) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Saint | Aristides (Guest Star) | 1963-1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | H.G. Wells' Invisible Man | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
QUOTES FROM Oliver Reed CHARACTERS
Dr. Hal Raglan says: They're her children. More exactly, the children of her rage.
Proximo says: And the great whore will suckle us until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more.
Proximo says: You should see the Colosseum Spaniard. Fifty-thousand Romans... watching every movement of your sword... willing you to make that killer blow. The silence before you strike and the noise afterwards. It rises. It rises up... like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself.
Proximo says: You should see the Colosseum Spaniard. Fifty-thousand Romans watching every movement of your sword, willing you to make that killer blow. The silence before you strike and the noise afterwards. It rises. It rises up like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself.
Proximo says: Gladiators... I salute you.
Proximo says: Ultimately, we are all dead men. Sadly we cannot choose how but we can decide how we meet that end in order that we are remembered as men
Proximo says: Ultimately, we are all dead men. Sadly we cannot choose how but we can decide how we meet that end in order that we are remembered as men.
Proximo says: We are nothing but dust and shadows. Dust and shadows!
Proximo says: You have sold me queer giraffes.