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Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in similarly "tough-guy" screenplay roles such as his role as the elderly yet authoritarian slave dealer "Proximo" in the movie Gladiator. His major films include Oliver!, The Trap, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, Sitting Target, The Devils, The Three Musketeers, Tommy, The Prince And The Pauper, Castaway, and Gladiator.
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Be it in SITTING TARGET, where Oliver Reed serves as a bit of the prototype for General Zod's THE LIMEY. Oliver Reed was just a film acting god. One of those bigger than life sorts of guys. The type you hear legends about. Like the alleged, semen through his hair conversation with Renny Harlin when he was cast in CUTTHROAT ISLAND, and when Harlin said "NO", Oliver was willing to fight over his desire to rub semen in his hair on camera.
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Oliver Reed movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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Reed appeared in The Three Musketeers (1973) and its sequel, The Four Musketeers (1975), which originally had been planned as one long movie. He revived the role in 1989 for The Return of the Musketeers. During filming of the windmill scene in the first film, Reed was nearly killed when he received an accidental stab wound in the neck.
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When the UK government raised taxes on personal income, Reed initially declined to join the exodus of major British film stars to Hollywood and other more tax-friendly locales. Reed turned down major roles in two hugely successful Hollywood movies: The Sting (1973) (although he did appear in the less than stellar sequel) and Jaws (1975). His Daily Telegraph obituary noted that in the late 1970s Reed was finally obliged to relocate to the Channel Islands as a tax exile. He ... located to Ireland, where he had property in the County Clare coastal area. Reed was a regular visitor to Ireland: he loved the land and its people. He spent his last years in County Cork Ireland, where he made his home and his final resting place.
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Reed was often irritated that his appearances on TV chat shows concentrated on his drinking feats, rather than his latest film. David Letterman cut to a commercial when it appeared Reed might get violent after being asked too many questions about his drinking. Near the end of his life he was brought onto some TV shows specifically for his drinking; for example The Word put bottles of drink in his dressing room so he could be secretly filmed getting drunk. He was forced to leave the set of the Channel 4 television discussion programme After Dark after arriving drunk and attempting to kiss feminist writer Kate Millett. He was drunk on the chat show
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