Who is Oliver Reed
Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. His notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), Revolver (1973), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974); the lover/stepfather in Tommy (1975), The Brood (1979), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000).For 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 Su...
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- At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
- When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.
- At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
- I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
- At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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Allflicker: i cannot begin to describe how utterly weird a movie michael winner’s hannibal brooks (1969) is. oliver reed plays a brit pow in germany who escapes the nazis into the alps with his adorable pet elephant lucy plus you got michael j pollard as a clearly stoned out of his gourd…Papermissy: time for a new oliver reed pic for my header. with kitten.
Frogalapeche: see you all at 9pm. a cracking christie adaptation, with oliver reed, elke sommer, goldfinger, largo, commissioner dreyfuss and jurassic park owner, and others.
Mattie2twi: ouch. tptv. 'and then there was none' with charles aznavour, dickie attenborough, oliver reed. was there ever such a wooden, leaden adaptation of agatha christie? sorry, just awful.
Selsdonchapman: the wonderfully creepy 1974 version of and then there were none is on talking pictures tv right now. oliver reed, herbert lom, dickie attenborough, gert frobe et al. one of my favourite christie adaptations, even if they do muck up the ending.
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