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Oliver Reed: Drinking
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May 3, 1999 | (AP) -- Oliver Reed, the feisty, hard-drinking actor who was as well known for his antics off screen as he was for his performances on-screen, died Sunday in Malta. He was 61.
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A family of vacationers, including Oliver Reed and Karen Black as the parents, rents a sprawling mansion for the summer and soon discovers that all is not as it should be. Among other equally strange things, dead plants come back to life, and the swimming pool kills bathers.
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In later years, Reed could often be seen quietly drinking with his wife Josephine Burge, at the bar of the White Horse Hotel in the High Street in Dorking, Surrey, not far from his home in Oakwoodhill. He had sold his larger house, 'Broome Hall', between the villages of Coldharbour and Ockley some years previously. Reed lived out his last years in Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland, where he and his wife Josephine were well settled, having moved there in 1992 and Reed was a much loved member of the community. Many years before, while Reed was filming "The Curse of The Werewolf" for Hammer Films, he was quoted in an early film magazine interview, that "Ireland was his spiritual home". Reed was married to an Irish wife, Kate Byrne and his relatives from his mothers side long ago had imigrated from Ireland to Scotland.
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Reed's intense, glowering features could ... be manipulated for believable ethnic characterizations. Titles such as These Are the Damned and Pirates of Blood River (both 1962) followed. His first of six collaborations with Michael Winner came with The Girl Getters in 1966.
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Reed was ... famed for his various public-feuds and opinions concerning certain well-known celebrities, among them Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin, Richard Harris, and Jack Nicholson. During an interview, when asked about Jack Nicholson, Reed once stated: “Nicholson? As far as I’m concerned, he’s a balding midget. He stands five-foot-seven, you know. He tries to play heavies and doesn’t quite make it.”
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The house butler, Oliver Reed, is hellbent on possessing Swanbrook Mansion and its occupants. He spins an evil web around the family and induces bizarre and terrifying dreams. As each night passes, the possession and domination become stronger.
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