Shaw, Denis 70, 75
Shaw, George Bernard 36, 38
Shepperton Studios 142, 265
Showtime magazine 151–2
The Shuttered Room120–1, 349
shyness, OR’s 82, 84, 113, 130, 394, 395, 474
Sikes, Bill ix, 138–43, 241
Simpson, Alan 68
Simpson, O. J. 151
Sitting Target 201–2
Skeleton Coast 411–12
Sky News 453
Smith, Sidney 55
Snell, Peter 422
Snotter Martin (driver) 222
Sollima, Sergio 227–8, 229
Sommer, Elke 257, 258
Sorel, Louise 88
South Africa, OR in 406–11
South Wimbledon Club 107
Spasms 365–7
Spengler, Pierre 231, 232–3, 235–6, 297, 300, 301, 303–4, 415–16, 420
Spielberg, Steven 462
sports see athletics; lawn mower racing; rugby
The Square Peg 55
St Helier Hospital, Carshalton 42–3
stage acting, rejection of 80–2
Starr, Freddie 399
Starr, Ringo 288
Start the Week 293
Stigwood, Robert 261–2
The Sting 2 369–70
The Sting OR turns down 253
strength, OR’s tests of physical 30, 99, 228–9, 400
Stringfellows nightclub 211
Stuart, Graham 396–7
Sulis, Bill 20, 56, 447
Sun 188, 387
Superbrain 444
The Swan, Wimbledon 1, 2, 78–9, 134
sword fighting in The Three Musketeers 232–3
Sword of Sherwood Forest 66–7
The System 97–8, 100–1, 103, 111, 123, 252, 300
Take a Girl Like You 170
Tarantino, Quentin 233
tax issues 308–9
Testi, Fabio 227–8, 229
This Is Your Life 394
Thompson, Brian 424, 425–6
The Three Musketeers xi, 230–5, 239–41, 415
Thurman, Uma 413–14
Tommy 81, 261–5, 266, 413
Tomorrow Never Comes 309–11, 313
The Tonight Show 292
Touch of the Sun 324
Towers, Harry Alan 256, 371, 412
Townshend, Pete 261, 262
The Trap 114–16, 122
Treasure Island 421–3
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm (OR’s grandfather) 35–8, 80, 273
Trent, John 255–6
Trevelyan, John 89
The Triple Echo 46, 208–10, 214, 320–1
Turner, Barry 13
Tushingham, Rita 114–15
29 Woodside (Reed home) 67–8
Two Faces of Dr Jekyll 63–4, 66
Two of a Kind 370
Universal Studios 124, 369
Valletta, Malta 2
Vanger, Jonathan 353, 409–10, 411, 412
Variety magazine 85
Venom 344–8
Villiers, James 92
Walker, Alexander 188
Wallis, Shani 141–2
Walters, Barbara 249
Warburton, Patrick 406–7
wedding, OR and Josephine Burge 379
wedding, OR and Kate Byrne 62
Welch, Raquel 236–8, 301, 302–3
Welles, Orson x, 127–8
West Eleven 97
White, Carol 131–2
White Hart, Dorking 204
White Horse Hotel, Dorking 204
White, Oona 143–4
The Who see Moon, Keith; Tommy
Wick, Douglas 452, 470, 471
Wild, Jack 141
‘Wild Thing’ (by The Troggs) 434
Williams, Billy 161, 162, 164, 165
Williams, Kenneth 59
Wilson, Ali 445, 446
Wimbledon 1–2, 4–5, 6, 12, 67–8
Wimbledon Common Preparatory School ‘Squirrels’ 13
Winner, Michael 97–8, 100–1, 113, 123–6, 127, 128–9, 130–1, 153–4, 155, 206, 221, 254, 317–18, 372, 405, 412, 443, 450–1, 460, 466, 472
Winters, Shelley 292
Wisdom, Norman 55, 68
Women in Love 81, 158–66, 168, 189
Woodland Wines 78, 118
Woodville, Katherine 87–8, 90
Woolf, James 137
Woolf, Sir John 137–8
The Word 434–5
Yates, Paula 405–6
York, Michael xi, 152, 231, 234, 239, 240, 241, 415, 416, 417
Zanuck, Richard D. 253
Zero Population Growth 200–1
Zuleika Dobson (M. Beerbohm) 39
School report from 1949. (David Reed)
Oliver, aged three, wearing the light top, with his elder brother David. (David Reed)
Letter home from boarding school. (David Reed)
Very early publicity shots. ‘Oliver was extraordinarily good looking when he was young,’ says David. ‘There was a mystery and a roughness.’ (Mark Reed)
Reed’s breakthrough in Hammer’s The Curse of the Werewolf. The make-up artist suggested him for the part convinced, ‘He already looked like half a wolf when he was angry.’ (© Rex)
Working for acclaimed director Joseph Losey, Oliver gives a malevolent performance as a street thug in The Damned. (© Rex)
Fooling around between takes on the BBC Debussy film. (Mark Reed)
On a night out with his wife Kate Byrne circa 1966. As a couple they were well-suited, equally combustible and fun-loving. (Mick Fryer)
As Bill Sikes in Oliver! Reed terrified the child cast members both on and off camera. The film was directed by his uncle Sir Carol Reed. (© Rex)
Oliver and his ‘friend’ the elephant from Hannibal Brooks. (Mark Reed)
In Women in Love Ollie and Glenda Jackson smouldered on screen, but privately their relationship was non-existent. ‘He was the antithesis of everything I am,’ says the actress. (© Rex)
Filming The Devils with Ken Russell and co-star Vanessa Redgrave. Its depiction of religious hypocrisy caused huge controversy, obscuring a commanding central performance from Reed. (© Rex)
Getting his hair cut for the fiery climax of The Devils. (Mark Reed)
Lord of Broome Hall, the magnificent manor house in Surrey that was Ollie’s own little piece of England. (Sarah Reed)
Oliver attends The Three Musketeers premiere with Jacquie Daryl. Their relationship lasted for the whole of the 1970s. They were similar personalities. Oliver liked women who were tomboys, girls that would muck about and indulge his playmaking. (Sarah Reed)
Mark with his father on the Spanish set of The Hunting Party. (Mark Reed)
On location with his daughter Sarah who remembers: ‘When you had his attention it felt like the sun was shining on you.’ (Sarah Reed)
The hard-edged thriller Sitting Target features one of Ollie’s most brutal and mesmerising performances. (© Rex)
Competitors in the ‘Slippery Pole Contest,’ which involved knocking your opponent off with a heavy cushion into manure covered straw. Ollie is flanked by his gardener Bill Dobson and friend Paul Friday. (Paul and Nora Friday)
Coming off second best at another slippery pole contest. (Paul and Nora Friday)
The Three Musketeers, with co-stars Richard Chamberlain, Michael York and Frank Finlay. Reed threw himself so enthusiastically into the sword fights he terrified the stuntmen who would be seen retching in the corner. (© Rex)
The cat that got the cream: Oliver and Claudia Cardinale on the set of Days of Fury. (Mark Reed)
Oliver and Beano in the bluebell wood at Broome Hall. To Sarah, ‘This photograph epitomises the gentler side of my father. Animals and nature.’ (Sarah Reed)
Oliver with Reg Prince, the actor’s stand-in, drinking pal and bodyguard; their relationship lasted over 20 years but ended in tragedy. (Mark Reed)
Sarah’s birthday party at Broome Hall. Oliver loved children, ‘He just didn’t know how to cope with t
hem,’ says brother David. (Sarah Reed)
Toasting The Queen on her Silver Jubilee from Ockley Pond. (Paul and Nora Friday)
Oliver aboard his Chinese junk the Ding Hao, moored at Cap Ferrat where it stood out like a sore thumb among the shiny yachts of millionaires. (Sarah Reed)
In Barbados, a regular holiday destination, with mates Norse, Paul Friday and Ivan, a local taxi driver. (Paul and Nora Friday)
Oliver in the library at Broome Hall. (Mark Reed)
Oliver with his son Mark and daughter Sarah at the launch of his autobiography in 1979. (Sarah Reed)
Ollie, Mark and friend Mick Fryer dressing up in period costume at an old time portrait studio in Dublin 1980. (Mick Fryer)
Before his career went into near total decline Reed gave one of his best performances in David Cronenberg’s cult classic The Brood. (© Rex)
Mugshot following Ollie’s arrest in 1981 after wrecking Ye Old English Pub in Vermont.
(Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department)
Ollie plays the clown at a charity cricket match. (Mark Reed)
Oliver’s friends and family reacted with shock when he began dating 16-year-old Josephine Burge, but their relationship lasted until his death. (Josephine Ryan-Purcell)
With co-star Amanda Donohoe in Nicolas Roeg’s Castaway. Ollie was in a near intoxicated state for the shoot in the Seychelles, once so drunk he attacked an aeroplane landing at the island’s airport. (© Rex)
With two of his beloved dogs. ‘He found animals easier than people,’ claims Oliver’s daughter Sarah. (Sarah Reed)
Relaxing between takes on location in Montana for the TV miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove. (Josephine Ryan-Purcell)
At home in Ireland Oliver enjoyed pitching his gardening prowess against other local enthusiasts in an annual vegetable growing competition. (Josephine Ryan-Purcell)
His last role as the slave merchant Proximo in Gladiator. Reed was chosen for his larger than life quality, ‘That he could send men to their deaths with a twinkle in his eye and you’d forgive him for it,’ says producer Douglas Wick. (© Rex)
With Gladiator co-star David Hemmings watching a local football match on location in Malta. Just a few weeks later he was dead. (Josephine Ryan-Purcell)
Oliver’s grave in Churchtown, County Cork. Note the beer, cigarettes and money, items regularly left at the graveside. (Mark Reed)
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