[3] 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'),[4] she being "the only person who understood, listened to, encouraged and kissed Oliver".

"Until that time they thought I was a neolithic dustbin," said Reed.

In October 1981, Reed was arrested in Vermont, where he was tried and acquitted of disturbing the peace while drunk. I was in the peacetime army and they were all telling us youngsters about the war."[10].

He had a cameo in Russell's Lisztomania (1975). He also had the lead in a non-Hammer horror, The Party's Over (made 1963, released 1965), directed by Guy Hamilton. "[59] Having made a number of promises to Ridley Scott prior to filming, including that he would not drink during production, Reed worked around this by only drinking on weekends. After Assault in Paradise (1977) he returned to swashbuckling in Crossed Swords (UK title The Prince and the Pauper) (1977), as Miles Hendon alongside Raquel Welch and a grown up Mark Lester, who had worked with Reed in Oliver!, from a script co-written by Fraser. He later called it the worst film he ever made for Hammer. He was also a supporter of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and British military efforts during the Falklands War. She had been falsely arrested by Kiddie for suspected shoplifting. This video is part of our Analog Archive which means it isn’t stored on our website, accessing the content may take some time and may be subject to additional fees. He was in an Irish bar and was pressured into a drinking competition. Co-star David Hemmings was a long time friend of Reed’s, and in 2020 Scott stated, "David Hemmings (Cassius) promised to look after him and said to me [upon his death], I’m really sorry, old boy’". Please carefully review any restrictions accompanying the Licensed Material on the Getty Images website, and contact your Getty Images representative if you have a question about them.

All limited use licenses come in the largest size available. [43], Reed was known for his alcoholism and binge drinking.

In his final years, when he lived in Ireland, Reed was a regular in the one-roomed O'Brien's Bar in Churchtown, County Cork, close to the 13th-century cemetery in the heart of the village where he would be buried. [41][42], In 2013, the writer Robert Sellers published What Fresh Lunacy Is This? In 1993 Reed was unsuccessfully sued by his former stuntman, stand-in and friend Reg Prince, for an alleged spinal injury incurred by the latter while on location for the filming of Castaway. He says he was contemplating quitting acting when Nicolas Roeg cast him in Castaway (1986) as the middle aged Gerald Kingsland, who advertises for a "wife" (played by Amanda Donohoe) to live on a desert island with him for a year.[10].

(1972), a science fiction film with Geraldine Chaplin. [6] Reed attended 14 schools,[7] including Ewell Castle School in Surrey. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1986 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. [44] Numerous anecdotes exist, such as Reed and 36 friends drinking, in one evening: 60 gallons of beer, 32 bottles of scotch, 17 bottles of gin, four crates of wine, and a bottle of Babycham. Hammer liked Reed and gave him good supporting roles in the swashbuckler The Pirates of Blood River (1962), directed by John Gilling; Captain Clegg (1962), a smugglers tale with Peter Cushing; The Damned (1963), a science fiction film, as a Teddy Boy, directed by Joseph Losey; Paranoiac (1963), a psycho thriller for director Freddie Francis; and The Scarlet Blade (1963); a swashbuckler set during the Civil War, directed by Gilling, with Reed as a Roundhead. Though his widow Josephine has said she never thought then she would meet another man, she was marrying Walter Ryan-Purcell - who describes the pair as soulmates.

'The Jokers' Wild With Oliver Reed Chicago Tribune 23 Oct 1987: R. Oliver Burns--at the Stake and at Film Critics "[10] It was also the first time he broke away from villainous roles. According to Robert Sellers Reed tried reenlisting in the British army following the outbreak of the conflict but was turned down. [30] The film was released after his death with some footage filmed with a double,[31] digitally mixed with outtake footage. "He thought I was a dunce. In 1964 he starred in the first of six films directed by Michael Winner, The System (known as The Girl-Getters in the US). Contact your company to license this image. [28] Reed was in The Misfit Brigade (1987), Gor (1987), Master of Dragonard Hill (1987), Dragonard (1987), Skeleton Coast (1988), Blind Justice (1988), Captive Rage (1988), and Rage to Kill (1988).

He went back to small roles for His and Hers (1961), a Terry-Thomas comedy; No Love for Johnnie (1961) for Ralph Thomas; and The Rebel (1961) with Tony Hancock. It was awful to see.'[48]. However, Evil Spirits, biography of Reed that was written by Cliff Goodwin, offered the theory that Reed was not always as drunk on chat shows as he appeared to be, but rather was acting the part of an uncontrollably sodden former star to liven things up, at the producers' behests. : The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed, by Robert Sellers", "REED AND DUNAWAY; 'COLUMBUS' STARS JUST SAILING ALONG", "What Fresh Lunacy is This? Can only be used for the specific purposes listed. The IBM strategic repository for digital assets such as images and videos is located at dam.ibm.com. His final role was the elderly slave dealer Proximo in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000), in which he played alongside Richard Harris,[29] an actor whom Reed admired greatly both on and off the screen. Reed got his first significant role in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), again directed by Fisher. He had sold his large house, Broome Hall, between the villages of Coldharbour and Ockley, some years earlier and initially lodged at the Duke of Normandie Hotel in Saint Peter Port. He did a comedy for Charles B. Griffith, Dr. Heckyl and Mr. The following assets contain unreleased and/or restricted content. In 1985, he married Josephine Burge, to whom he remained married until his death. [7] Frances Crook, the chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, in an article for The Guardian about this case, said the custodial remand of women in the United Kingdom is "scandalously high"; 70% of the women so held do not receive a custodial sentence after their trial. OLIVER REED: ONE AMONG MANY PRETENDERS Luaine Lee, Knight. Ridley Scott says Oliver Reed ‘dropped down dead’ after challenging sailors to drinking match while filming Gladiator. Sarah Lynne Reed (22 June 1984 – 11 January 2016) was a British prisoner waiting for psychiatric reports before a possible trial. His body was interred in Churchtown's Bruhenny Graveyard. [49] Years later, on 5 August 1987, David Letterman cut to a commercial when Reed became belligerent after being asked too many questions about his drinking, after pointing out that Letterman's researcher had already been told that Reed did not want to talk about drinking during his appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.

[26] He did The Triple Echo (1972) directed by Michael Apted, and featured Reed alongside Glenda Jackson.

[56] According to witnesses, he drank eight pints of German lager, a dozen shots of rum, half a bottle of whiskey and a few shots of Hennessy cognac,[57] in a drinking match against a group of sailors on shore leave from HMS Cumberland at a local pub. The Ministry of Justice said that CPR was attempted, but she was pronounced dead shortly after she was found. Los Angeles Times 27 Mar 1971: a9. He appeared uncredited in Norman Wisdom's film The Square Peg (1958). [1][7][8] Kiddie was prosecuted, and convicted of common assault in 2014. At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted Reed 5th most popular star at the box office. Oliver Reed, who collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack in a Malta bar on May 2, is to buried within view of his favourite pub. This repository is populated with tens of thousands of assets and should be your first stop for asset selection. When they met in 1980, she was 16 years old and he was 42. It was very tragic.

Reed also appeared in a number of Italian films: Dirty Weekend (1973), with Marcello Mastroianni; One Russian Summer (1973) with Claudia Cardinale; and Revolver (1973). [5] The jury decided she had died when her mind was unsound, but was unable to determine whether her death was intentional. From the 1980s onwards Reed's films had less success. In the late 1970s Reed relocated to Guernsey as a tax exile. While on the subject of Reed’s ‘Mighty Mallet’ – as he liked to call it – during the seventies, Reed … * 21/07/01 The widow of actor Oliver Reed was set to marry her country squire fiance in the grounds of his ancestral home in Co Cork Saturday July 21, 2001.

He then did his compulsory army service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. It did not seem to help his career immediately: He was not credited in the films The Captain's Table (1959), Upstairs and Downstairs (1959), directed by Ralph Thomas, Life Is a Circus (1960), The Angry Silence (1960), The League of Gentlemen (1960) and Beat Girl (1960). While filming his part of Bill Sikes in Oliver! [18], More successful than either was his fourth film with Russell, a film version of Women in Love (1969), in which he wrestled naked with Alan Bates in front of a log fire. However, unless a license is purchased, content cannot be used in any final materials or any publicly available materials. Reed appeared in The New Spartans (1975) then acted alongside Karen Black, Bette Davis, and Burgess Meredith in the Dan Curtis horror film Burnt Offerings (1976). [16], He was in the black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969) with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas, directed by Basil Dearden;[17] and a war film for Winner, Hannibal Brooks (1969). Reed returned to Hammer for The Brigand of Kandahar (1965), playing a villainous Indian in an imperial action film for Gilling. When they met in 1980, she was 16 years old and he was 42. final materials distributed inside your organization, any materials distributed outside your organization, any materials distributed to the public (such as advertising, marketing). [15], —Four Hellraisers, Living It Up In The Public Eye. After Reed's death, the Guardian Unlimited called the casting decision, "One of the great missed opportunities of post-war British movie history."[25]. [citation needed], Holloway prison was closed in May 2016 after being considered inadequate; an official decision which was endorsed by the prison inspectorate whose October 2016 report had criticised the prison's slow transfer of women with mental health issues to secure hospitals. So I should... but we never had a pleasant conversation.

Most of these were exploitation films produced by the impresario Harry Alan Towers filmed in South Africa at the time of apartheid and released straight to video in the United States and UK.

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