Oliver Reed

[Cheesypoof]

That smouldering presence, those eyes, that voice. Uncompromising, captivating, brilliant.

Understated icon and legend.

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[DrRingDing]

Him singing 'Wild Thing' on The Word scared me for life.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Him singing 'Wild Thing' on The Word scared me for life.

When he was lagging? Yeah that was a classic episode!

 

[Cheesypoof]

Him singing 'Wild Thing' on The Word scared me for life.

ah yes....but lets think instead of him playing Claude Debussy

*dreams*

 

[brianx]

The nude wrestling with (Alan Bates)? was a bloody disgrace. Where's the Daily Mail when you need them?
And don't talk to me about emo.

 

[RaverDrew]

My Hero

Tosser really, but had style that was unique.

 

[Strumpet]

ah yes....but lets think instead of him playing Claude Debussy

*dreams*

When he was younger mmhmm. Something...wild and unpredictable about him.

 

[DotCommunist]

His performance in Ken Russels 'The Devils' cemented his legend-hood for me

 

[DrRingDing]

Anybody remember him in an early nineties middle of the night ITV thing where he spent five minutes of every show ranting violently in an incoherant manner at a barber?

 

[MysteryGuest]

ollie's performance on after dark cemented his legendhood for me.

 

[DrRingDing]

ollie's performance on after dark cemented his legendhood for me.

I bet it was his gay wrestling really.

 

[Cheesypoof]

he commanded a presence and is to me, despite his failings, the perfect Englishman.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Anybody remember him in an early nineties middle of the night ITV thing where he spent five minutes of every show ranting violently in an incoherant manner at a barber?

lets reflect on the mans artistry - and forget this nonsense.

 

[DrRingDing]

with all due respect, lets reflect on the mans artistry, and forget this nonsense.

Art is more than pretense, m'lady.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Art is more than pretense, m'lady.

its 500,000 more aeons than that, m'lord.

 

[MysteryGuest]

Art is more than pretense, m'lady.

Not if you're Pete Docherty it isn't.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Not if you're Pete Docherty it isn't.

wrong

 

[MysteryGuest]

bah, I was just trying to get a rise out of you, and all you did was wink!

 

[brixtonvilla]

Ollie Reed as a young man was cool as anything:

From what I've heard, he did of play up to the "comedy drunk" image he had, and could rein it in when working with a director he really respected. David Cronenberg, for example said he was a joy to work with on The Brood. What's so sad is that he died just on the verge of getting it together again and doing some good work - you have to wonder where he'd have gone after Gladiator.

"You've sold me queer giraffes, and I want my money back..."

 

[Jografer]

With you all on Ollie the legend.... just think an obit 8 years after the event is a bit late...

 

[Paris Garters]

The young Oliver Reed was IMO one of the most beautiful human beings to have walked the earth; especially in the devils. Pure sex.

But he was a violent out of control loon on the booze.
Those chat shows where people would have him on to see what a pissed mentaller he would be...scumbags. I take no pleasure in seeing a train wreck of a person humiliated.

 

[absinthe pirate]

Ollie Reed as a young man was cool as anything...What's so sad is that he died just on the verge of getting it together again and doing some good work - you have to wonder where he'd have gone after Gladiator.

My thoughts exactly

 

[bellator]

Great actor!! We went to the pub in Valetta, Malta where he was taken ill before he died. There is a list of what he drank before keeling over.
He drank 10 pints of lager and 12 rums before buying drinks for everyone at the bar and arm wrestled sailors from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland as he shared 2 bottles of rum with them.

 

[Urbane Worrier]

A talent sadly pissed away.

 

[bluestreak]

a fine drinker, and a great man.

 

[Celt]

Great actor!! We went to the pub in Valetta, Malta where he was taken ill before he died. There is a list of what he drank before keeling over.
He drank 10 pints of lager and 12 rums before buying drinks for everyone at the bar and arm wrestled sailors from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland as he shared 2 bottles of rum with them.

God that is some depressing claim to fame for a pub to have, managed to serve an adicct enough of his addiction that he died - and then publicise it

Oliver Read before the booze began to cause serious damange, was incredibly good looking, talented and could have been among the greats.

His love of alcohol overtook his passion for anything else.

 

[goldenecitrone]

A poor man´s Klaus Kinski. And that film with the elephants was shite.

 

[brianx]

Wasn't Ollie the bad local is Straw Dogs? He was good as that. And what about being totally naked for the whole film with Amanda Donahoe in that Robinsoe Crusoe film? Lucky bastard.

 

[Julie]

That smouldering presence, those eyes, that voice. Uncompromising, captivating, brilliant.

Understated icon and legend.

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Didn't do much for me.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

A poor man´s Klaus Kinski. And that film with the elephants was shite.

Hannibal Brooks is probably Ollies best performance - and is a great film, depsite being directed by Michael Winner.