Oliver Reed

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Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor, known for his macho, upper-middle class image and his heavy-drinking, "hellraiser" lifestyle. His screen career spanned over 40 years, between 1955 and 1999. 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 film roles included La Bete in The Trap (1966), Bill Sikes in Oliver! (a film directed by his uncle Carol Reed that won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Picture), Gerald Crich in Women in Love (1969), Stephen 'Hannibal' Brooks in Hannibal Brooks (1969), Father Urbain Grandier in The Devils (1971), Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), "Uncle" Frank Hobbs in Tommy (1975), Ben Rolf in Burnt Offerings (1976), Dr. Hal Raglan in The Brood (1979), Dolly Hopkins in Funny Bones (1995), and Antonius Proximo in Gladiator (2000...

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