He appeared in the documentary Hello London (1958). Uncredited television appearances included episodes of The Invisible Man (1958), The Four Just Men (1959) and The Third Man. He appeared uncredited in Ken Annakin's film Value for Money (1955) and Norman Wisdom's film The Square Peg (1958). Reed began his acting career as an extra in films. I was in the peacetime army and they were all telling us youngsters about the war." Career Early years "I recognized that most other people were actors as well. He then did his compulsory army service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Reed claimed he had worked as a boxer, a bouncer, a taxi driver and a hospital porter. "My father thought I was just lazy," Reed later said. Reed attended 14 schools, including Ewell Castle School in Surrey. Reed claimed to have been a descendant (through an illegitimate step) of Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia. He was the nephew of film director Sir Carol Reed, and grandson of the actor- manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, Beatrice May Pinney (who later assumed the name 'Reed'), she being "the only person who understood, listened to, encouraged and kissed Oliver".
Robert Oliver Reed was born on 13 February 1938 at 9 Durrington Park Road, Wimbledon, southwest London, to Peter Reed, a sports journalist, and Marcia (née Napier-Andrews). 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". At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted Reed fifth most popular star at the box office. 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).įor 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. Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – ) was an English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle.
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