Director: Michael Campus
Cast: Oliver Reed (Russ McNeil), Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon, Diane Cilento.
Sitting Target (1972)
Director: Douglas Hickox
Cast: Oliver Reed (Harry Lomart), Jill St. John, Ian McShane, Edward Woodward, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Jill Townsend.
Fury (aka Days of Fury, One Russian Summer) (1973)
Director: Antonio Calenda
Cast: Oliver Reed (Palizyn), John McEnery, Carole Andre, Ray Lovelock, Claudia Cardinale.
Dirty Weekend (1973)
Director: Dino Risi
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed (Fabrizo), Carole Andre, Lionel Stander.
Revolver (1973)
Director: Sergio Sollima
Cast: Oliver Reed (Vito Caprini), Fabio Testi, Paola Pitagora, Agostina Belli.
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Oliver Reed (Athos), Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Faye Dunaway, Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simon Ward, Spike Milligan, Roy Kinnear.
Blue Blood (1973)
Director: Andrew Sinclair
Cast: Oliver Reed (Tom), Fiona Lewis, Anna Gael, Derek Jacobi.
And Then There Were None (1974)
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Oliver Reed (Hugh Lombard), Elke Sommer, Charles Aznavour, Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough, Adolfo Celi, Stephane Audran, Alberto de Mendoza, Gert Frobe, Orson Welles (narrator).
The Four Musketeers (1974)
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Oliver Reed (Athos), Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Faye Dunaway, Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simon Ward, Roy Kinnear, Michael Gothard.
Tommy (1975)
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Oliver Reed (Frank Hobbs), Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Keith Moon, Tina Turner, Jack Nicholson, Paul Nicholas, Robert Powell, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle.
Royal Flash (1975)
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed (Otto von Bismarck), Britt Ekland, Tom Bell, Joss Ackland, Christopher Cazenove, Henry Cooper, Lionel Jeffries, Alastair Sim, Michael Hordern, Bob Hoskins, David Jason.
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976)
Director: Don Taylor
Cast: Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed (Joe Knox), Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin, Sylvia Miles.
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Director: Dan Curtis
Cast: Karen Black, Oliver Reed (Ben Rolf), Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith, Lee Montgomery.
The Sell Out (1976)
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Oliver Reed (Gabriel Lee), Richard Widmark, Gayle Hunnicutt, Sam Wanamaker.
The Ransom (1977)
Director: Richard Compton
Cast: Oliver Reed (Nick McCormick), Deborah Raffin, James Mitchum, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland, Paul Koslo.
The Prince and the Pauper (1977)
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Oliver Reed (Miles Hendon), Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston, Harry Andrews, Murray Melvin.
Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
Director: Peter Collinson
Cast: Oliver Reed (Jim Wilson), Susan George, Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Stephen McHattie, Donald Pleasence, Paul Koslo.
The Big Sleep (1978)
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Edward Fox, John Mills, James Stewart, Oliver Reed (Eddie Mars), Harry Andrews, Richard Todd.
The Class of Miss MacMichael (1979)
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Cast: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed (Terence Sutton), Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash, John Standing, Phil Daniels.
A Touch of the Sun (1979)
Director: Peter Curran
Cast: Oliver Reed (Capt. Daniel Nelson), Sylvaine Charlet, Peter Cushing, Keenan Wynn, Wilfrid Hyde-White.
The Brood (1979)
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Oliver Reed (Dr Hal Raglan), Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman.
Dr Heckyl and Mr Hype (1980)
Director: Charles B. Griffith
Cast: Oliver Reed (Dr. Henry Heckyl/Mr. Hype), Sunny Johnson, Maia Danziger, Jackie Coogan.
Lion of the Desert (1981)
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed (General Rodolfo Granziani), Irene Papas, Raf Vallone, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Andrew Keir.
Venom (1981)
Director: Piers Haggard
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed (Dave Averconnelly), Sterling Hayden, Nicol Williamson, Susan George, Sarah Miles, Cornelia Sharpe, Michael Gough.
Condorman (1981)
Director: Charles Jarrott
Cast: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed (Krokov), Barbara Carrera, James Hampton.
Fanny Hill (1983)
Director: Gerry O’Hara
Cast: Lisa Foster, Oliver Reed (Mr Edward Widdlecome), Wilfrid Hyde-White, Shelley Winters, Alfred Marks.
The Sting II (1983)
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed (Doyle Lonnegan).
Clash of Loyalties (1983)
Director: Mohamed Shukri Jameel
Cast: Yousef al-Any, Ghari al-Takriti, Bernard Archard, John Barron, James Bolam, Oliver Reed (Colonel Leachman).
Spasms (1983)
Director: William Fruet
Cast: Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed (Jason Kincaid), Kerrie Keane, Al Waxman.
Two of a Kind (1983)
Director: John Herzfeld
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Oliver Reed (Beasley), Scatman Crothers.
Black Arrow (1985; TV movie)
Director: John Hough
Cast: Benedict Taylor, Georgia Slowe, Oliver Reed (Sir Daniel), Fernando Rey, Stephan Chase, Donald Pleasence.
Christopher Columbus (1985; TV MINI-SERIES)
Director: Alberto Lattuada
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Rossano Brazzi, Oliver Reed (Martin Pinzon), Raf Vallone, Max Von Sydow, Eli Wallach, Nicol Williamson, Faye Dunaway.
Captive (1986)
Director: Paul Mayersberg
Cast: Irina Brook, Oliver Reed (Gregory Le Vay), Xavier Deluc, Corinne Dacla, Michael Cronin, Hiro Arai.
Castaway (1986)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Cast: Oliver Reed (Gerald Kingsland), Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale, Frances Barber.
Gor (1987)
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Cast: Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Jack Palance, Paul L. Smith, Oliver Reed (Sarm).
Master of Dragonard (1987)
Director: Gerard Kikoine
Cast: Oliver Reed (Captain Shanks), Eartha Kitt, Herbert Lom, Claudia Udy, Patrick Warburton.
The Misfit Brigade (1987)
Director: Gordon Hessler
Cast: Bruce Davison, David Patrick Kelly, D.W. Moffett, Jay O. Sanders, Oliver Reed (The General), David Carradine.
Rage to Kill (1988)
Director: David Winters
Cast: James Ryan, Oliver Reed (Gen. Turner), Cameron Mitchell.
Skeleton Coast (1988)
Director: John Cardos
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed (Capt. Simpson), Herbert Lom.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed (Vulcan), Uma Thurman, Charles McKeown, Winston Dennis, Jack Purvis, Jonathan Pryce, Robin Williams, Sting.
Captive Rage (1988)
Director: Cedric Sundstrom
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The Revenger (1989)
Director: Cedric Sundstrom
Cast: Oliver Reed (Jack Fisher), Frank Zagarino, Jeff Celentano, Nancy Mulford.
The Lady and the Highwayman (1989; TV movie)
Director: John Hough
Cast: Emma Samms, Oliver Reed (Sir Phillip Gage), Claire Bloom, Christopher Cazenove, Lysette Anthony, Hugh Grant, Michael York, John Mills, Ian Bannen, Robert Morley, Bernard Miles, Gordon Jackson.
The House of Usher (1989)
Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Cast: Oliver Reed (Roderick Usher), Donald Pleasence, Romy Windsor.
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Michael York, Oliver Reed (Athos), Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, C. Thomas Howell, Kim Cattrall, Geraldine Chaplin, Roy Kinnear, Christopher Lee, Philippe Noiret, Alan Howard.
Blind Justice (1989)
Director: Terence Ryan
Cast: Christopher Cazenove, Edita Brychta, Oliver Reed (Ballinger).
Treasure Island (1990; TV movie)
Director: Fraser Heston
Cast: Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed (Billy Bones), Christopher Lee, Richard Johnson, Julian Glover.
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990; TV movie)
Director: John Hough
Cast: Sarah Miles, Oliver Reed (The Rajah), Christopher Plummer, Samantha Eggar, Fiona Fullerton, Lysette Anthony, Marcus Gilbert, Joanna Lumley, Lewis Collins, Ron Moody.
Hired to Kill (1990)
Directors: Nico Mastorakis and Peter Rader
Cast: Brian Thompson, Oliver Reed (Michael Bartos), George Kennedy, Jose Ferrer.
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
Director: Stuart Gordon
Cast: Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William J. Norris, Mark Margolis, Oliver Reed (Cardinal).
Prisoner of Honor (1991; TV movie)
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed (Gen. de Boisdeffre), Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed, Peter Vaughan, Lindsay Anderson.
Severed Ties (1992)
Director: Damon Santostefano
Cast: Johnny Legend, Garrett Morris, Billy Morrissette, Oliver Reed (Dr Hans Vaughan), Elke Sommer.
Return to Lonesome Dove (1993; TV mini-series)
Director: Mike Robe
Cast: Jon Voight, Barbara Hershey, Ricky Schroder, Louis Gossett Jr, Oliver Reed (Gregor Dunnigan), Reese Witherspoon, Chris Cooper.
Superbrain (1995)
Director: Menahem Golan
Cast: Torsten Lennie Münchow, Oliver Reed (Superbrain), Hanns Zischler.
Russian Roulette – Moscow 95 (1995)
Director: Menahem Golan
Cast: Barbara Carrera, Karen Moncrieff, Oliver Reed.
Funny Bones (1995)
Director: Peter Chelsom
Cast: Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis, Lee Evans, Leslie Caron, Richard Griffiths, Oliver Reed (Dolly Hopkins).
The Bruce (1996)
Directors: Bob Carruthers and David McWhinnie
Cast: Brian Blessed, Richard Brimblecombe, Conor Chamberlain, Steven Clark, Oliver Reed (Bishop Wisharton).
Parting Shots (1998)
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Diana Rigg, Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley, Oliver Reed (Jamie Campbell-Stewart), Gareth Hunt.
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo on his Journeys to the Ends of the Earth (1998; TV movie)
Director: George Erschbamer
Cast: Don Diamont, Oliver Reed (Captain Cornelius Donovan), Jack Palance.
Jeremiah (1998; TV movie)
Director: Harry Winer
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Oliver Reed (General Safan), Klaus Maria Brandauer.
Gladiator (2000)
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed (Proximo), Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, David Hemmings.
Bibliography
Candice Bergen, Knock Wood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984).
Madeleine Bingham, The Great Lover: The Life and Art of Herbert Beerbohn Tree (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978).
Bill Burrows, The Hurricane: The Turbulent Life and Times of Alex Higgins (London: Atlantic Books, 2003).
Michael Crawford, Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with String (London: Random House, 2000).
Tony Fletcher, Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon (London: Omnibus Press, 1998).
Cliff Goodwin, Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed (London: Virgin Books, 2000).
David Hemmings, Blow Up… And Other Exaggerations (London: Robson Books, 2004).
Wayne Kinsey, Hammer Films: The Bray Studio Years (London: Reynolds & Hearne, 2002).
Joseph Lanza, Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and his Films (London: Aurum, 2008).
Christopher Lee, Tall, Dark and Gruesome (London: W.H. Allen, 1977)
George MacDonald Fraser, The Light’s On At Signpost (London: HarperCollins, 2002).
Roger Moore, Roger Moore: My Word is My Bond (Michael O’Mara Books, 2008).
Oliver Reed, Reed All About Me (London: W.H. Allen, 1979).
Paul Simper, The Saint: From Big Screen to Small Screen and Back Again (London: Chameleon Books, 1997).
Carol White with Clifford Thurlow, Carol Comes Home (London: New English Library, 1982).
Marco Pierre White, White Slave (London: Orion Books, 2006).
Donald Zec, Marvin: The Story of Lee Marvin (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979).
Index
Achille Lauro trip 376–8
Adams, Ritchie 208, 323–4
Adventures of Baron Munchausen 412–14
advertisements, television 61–2, 156, 405–6
After Dark 428–31
Akkad, Moustapha 364
All-Star Secrets 276
And Then There Were None 256–8, 371
André, Carole 224–5, 226, 227
Andrews, Lancelot (OR’s grandfather) 12, 14
The Angry Silence 59
animals, OR and 145–6, 154–5, 325–6, 419–20, 438, 440, 464
anniversary of OR’s death ix–x, 474
Apted, Michael 83, 209–10, 212–14, 252
arm-wrestling 30, 79, 121, 185–6, 400, 408, 444, 457
Armstrong, Vic 360, 443–4
Ashton, Roy 69, 71, 72
Aspel & Company 396–8
Assassination Bureau 153
athletics 23–4, 26–7, 48
attacked in Crazy Elephant, OR 106–7, 330
Attenborough, Richard 59, 258
auditions 60–1, 86–7, 110, 124, 451–2
Baird, Roy 166–7, 183
Baker, Bob 94, 95
Ball, David 103, 104, 279, 281–3, 386, 419, 476
Bang, Joy 265, 273
Barbados 51, 207–8, 284–5, 356
Barton, Tony 399–401
Bates, Alan 159, 161–2, 167
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) 109, 126, 268–9, 293
Beat Girl 67
Becket, Thomas 260–1
Beerbohm, Max 38–9
Behan, Brendan 82
Bergen, Candice 191–2
Bernard, Judd 318–19
Beverly Wilshire Hotel, LA, OR at the 286–9
The Big Sleep 317–18
Black, Karen 290, 291–2
Bledlow (childhood home) 7–12
Blessed, Brian 445
Blue Blood 254–6
Boardman, Stan 399–403
Box, John 137–8, 142
boxing 274–6
Brando, Marlon 82
Bray Studios 62, 69, 72, 83–4, 91
Bregman, Martin 347
Bricusse, Leslie 289–90, 367
Brigand of Kandahar 112, 113
British Film Institute 90, 163
Bron, Eleanor 158–9
The Brood 327, 328–
9
Brooke-Little, John 39–40
Broome Hall (Reed home) 31, 193–8, 200, 216–19, 242–3, 244–6, 248, 249, 259, 270, 271– 2, 307, 308, 313, 314–16, 318–19, 321, 333–5
Brown, George H. 114
The Bruce 445
Buck, Jules 278–9, 280
The Bulldog Breed 68
Burge, Anne 349, 350, 357, 358–9, 437
Burge, Josephine see Reed, Josephine (OR’s second wife)
Burge, William 459–60, 461, 462
Burgess, Ken ‘the Admiral’ 79, 92, 150, 269–70
Burke, Jack 52, 55
Burley, Kay 453
Burnt Offerings 290–2
Byrne, Kate (OR’s first wife) 60–3, 65–6, 68, 72, 73, 77, 78–9, 93, 107–8, 117, 122, 123, 144, 150, 176, 177–80, 468–9
Campus, Michael 200
Captain Clegg 75–6
The Captain’s Table 55–6
Captive 379
car collection 220–1, 222–3
Carrera, Barbara 351–2, 353, 354–5, 444, 474
Carreras, Michael 66
Carson, Johnny 292
Cassiday, Peter 446
Castaway 382–6, 393–4
Castle McCarthy (Reed Home) 437–9, 448, 468, 475
censors 89, 131, 162, 182, 188–9
Chamberlain, Richard 231, 235, 417
Chaplin, Geraldine 140, 199–200, 236, 416–17
Charteris, Leslie 94, 95–6
Chase, Stephan 240, 360–1, 473
chat shows 268–9, 276, 394–9, 428–30, 434–5
chauvinism, OR’s 291–4
childhood, OR’s 5–6, 7–12 13–27, 39
Christensen, Michael ‘Norse’ 3, 105–6, 118–19, 195, 216–17, 218–19, 220, 223, 242–3, 248–9, 250, 258, 266, 269, 270, 284–5, 315, 320, 321–2, 323–4, 333, 341, 392, 400, 418, 461, 468
Christopher Columbus TV mini-series 376
Churchtown cemetery ix–x, 465, 467–8
Clancy, Pat 133–5, 136, 469
Clash of Loyalties, A 359–61
The Class of Miss MacMichael 3, 318, 320–1
Cliffhanger 443
Coleman, Bernie 54, 147, 148–9, 193
Coleman, Joyce 4, 132, 147–8
Coles, Geoff 23–4, 26
Collinson, Peter 256–8, 313
Compton, Richard 295–6
Condorman 351–3, 354–5
Cooper, Henry 275–6
Coquillon, John 212–13
Coutts, Don 428–30, 431
Craig, Michael 59
Craig, Wendy 130, 131
Crawford, Michael 83, 123–5, 351, 352–3, 354
The Crazy Elephant nightclub 106–7
Crazy Gang 55
Cricketers Arms, Ockley 219–20, 242, 247, 248–9, 250, 259–60
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