Oliver Reed
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Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough guy" roles. His films include The Trap, Oliver!, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers, Tommy, Castaway, Lion of the Desert and Gladiator.
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As: Proximo
In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle ...
Runtime: 155 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: Russell Crowe | Joaquin Phoenix | Connie Nielsen | Oliver Reed | Richard Harris
As: Jamie Campbell-Stewart
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is told that he has only three months to live due to him getting cancer. After thinking things over he decides that since he is dying anyway that he will kill or destroy all the people that has ever crossed or hurt him during his entire life. So Parting Shots becomes literally the shots fired by Harry when he knows he is parting this earth. After all, he will be dead ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Michael Winner
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Ben Kingsley | John Cleese | Felicity Kendal | Chris Rea
As: General Safan
The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear to him that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Harry Winer
Stars: Oliver Reed | Leonor Varela | Vincent Regan | Patrick Dempsey | Klaus Maria Brandauer
As: Captain Cornelius Donovan
In this globe-trotting adventure, Marco Polo (Don Diamont) plays the famous 13th Century explorer who sets out from Italy to find his missing father, and along the way finds danger, excitement, and amazing discoveries at every turn. The supporting cast includes Oliver Reed, Jack Palance, and Herbert Lom.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: George Erschbamer
Stars: Oliver Reed | Cas Anvar | Don Diamont | Jack Palance | John Hallam
As: Bishop Wisharton
Robert the Bruce unites the Scots in a rebellion against the hated English, led by Edward I. He is supported by various loyal followers, notably the bishop who agrees to recognize his claim and crown him as King of the Scots.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: David Mcwhinnie
Stars: Oliver Reed | Brian Blessed | Sandy Welch | Conor Chamberlain
As: Professor Norbert Marcus
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Menahem Golan
Stars: Oliver Reed | Hanns Zischler | Torsten Münchow | Tina Ruland
As: Dolly Hopkins
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian but his Las Vegas debut is a failure. He goes back to Blackpool, UK, where his father, also a comedian started and where he spent the summers of his childhood. He starts to search for a partner, a comic relief, with whom he can be famous.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Peter Chelsom
Stars: Oliver Platt | Jerry Lewis | Richard Griffiths | Leslie Caron | Lee Evans
As: Matthias
Directed by: Menahem Golan
Stars: Oliver Reed | Marianne Sägebrecht | Silvia Seidel | Julia Biedermann | Johannes Rapp
As: Narrator
Hammer Films remain on record as the most consistently successful and influential British film company in history. And while Hammer may be best-known for their notorious series of gory Dracula movies, bloody Frankenstein adventures and chilling, satanic epics, few films had a greater impact on the '60's than the unforgettable genre known as "Hammer Glamours." The "Hammer ...
Runtime: 29 min.
Directed by: Robert Sidaway
Stars: Oliver Reed
As: Dr. Hans Vaughan
A regeneration experiment on a severed arm goes awry, turning the limb into a murderous, reptilian creature.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Damon Santostefano
Stars: Oliver Reed | Garrett Morris | Elke Sommer | Billy Morrissette | Johnny Legend
As: Gen. de Boisdeffre
Set in turn-of-the-century France about an anti-Semitic army officer who challenges the massive government cover-up in the imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus for espionage.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Ken Russell
Stars: Oliver Reed | Richard Dreyfuss | Jeremy Kemp | Peter Firth | Brian Blessed
As: Cardinal
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Stephen Lee | Lance Henriksen | Mark Margolis | Carolyn Purdy-Gordon | William J. Norris
As: Michael Bartos
A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is a mercenary and their job is to free an imprisoned rebel leader
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Nico Mastorakis | Peter Rader
Stars: Oliver Reed | Michelle Moffett | George Kennedy | Brian Thompson | José Ferrer
As: Billy Bones
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. ...
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Fraser Clarke Heston
Stars: Christian Bale | Christopher Lee | Oliver Reed | Charlton Heston | Richard Johnson
As: The Rajah
A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
Runtime: 91 min.
Stars: Oliver Reed | Christopher Plummer | Lysette Anthony | Samantha Eggar | Sarah Miles
As: Athos
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Richard Lester
Stars: Oliver Reed | Kim Cattrall | C. Thomas Howell | Michael York | Frank Finlay
As: Roderick Usher
An updated version of the classic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe. Ryan and his girlfriend Molly are going to visit Ryan's uncle, Roderick Usher, at his mansion. They find, however, that Roderick's brother Walter has gone insane, and Roderick himself isn't far behind. Can Ryan and Molly escape from the doomed mansion before the curse of Usher claims them as well?
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Alan Birkinshaw
Stars: Oliver Reed | Norman Coombes | Romy Windsor | Rufus Swart | Donald Pleasence
As: Sir Phillip Gage
Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But during one of his robberies, he falls in love with an aristocratic lady, Emma Samms ("Star Quest", "Delirious"). Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause. This swash-buckling romantic adventure will have you on the edge of your seat ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Hough
Stars: Oliver Reed | Claire Bloom | Christopher Cazenove | Hugh Grant | Emma Samms
As: Jack Fisher
When saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob boss Jack Fisher, Mike is arrested as an accomplice and thrown into prison for five years. Upon his release, he finds Fisher has kidnapped his wife, Lisa, believing Mike has the stolen drug money. With the help of Mackie's old Vietnam war buddy, Harry Crawford, Mike and Harry rescue Lisa, but now have ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Cedric Sundstrom
Stars: Oliver Reed | Jeff Celentano | Frank Zagarino | Nancy Mulford | Sean Taylor
As: General Belmondo
When the DEA director arrests the drug-dealing son of a South American general and cocaine baron, the dictator orders a plane of college students, among them the DEA director's daughter, to be hijacked and flown to his country, where he holds them under threat of torture and death unless his son is released within 72 hours.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Cedric Sundstrom
Stars: Oliver Reed | Robert Vaughn | Lisa Rinna | Claudia Udy | Maureen Kedes
As: Vulcan
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Oliver Reed | Eric Idle | Sarah Polley | John Neville | Charles McKeown
As: General Turner
Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has led a violent coup on this island and may be planning to blow up the school in order to blame the destruction on counterrevolutionaries. Striker infiltrates St. Heron, is captured, stripped to his tighty-whiteys, and electrotortured. He ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: David Winters
Stars: Oliver Reed | Cameron Mitchell | James Ryan | Henry Cele | Ian Yule
As: Captain Simpson
A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where they must infiltrate an armed compound run by a sadistic East German officer before Smith's son is tortured to death. Robert Vaughn, Oliver ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: John 'Bud' Cardos
Stars: Oliver Reed | Ernest Borgnine | Robert Vaughn | Herbert Lom | Simon Sabela
As: The General
War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Gordon Hessler
Stars: Keith Szarabajka | D.W. Moffett | Jay O. Sanders | Bruce Davison | David Patrick Kelly
As: Captain Shanks
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats rule with an iron fist and terrorize slaves and suspected criminals with a painful whip called the "dragonard."
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Gérard Kikoïne
Stars: Oliver Reed | Kimber Sissons | Eartha Kitt | Herbert Lom | Claudia Udy
As: Captain Shanks
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the dreaded "dragonard" whip. This sentence is meant to be fatal but Abdee survives and later joins in a slave revolt which puts an end to the island's era of savage ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Gerard Kikoine
Stars: Oliver Reed | Patrick Warburton | Annabel Schofield | Eartha Kitt | Claudia Udy
As: Sarm
American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an oppressed country overthrow its evil king and his barbarian henchmen.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Fritz Kiersch
Stars: Oliver Reed | Jack Palance | Rebecca Ferratti | Paul L. Smith | Urbano Barberini
As: Gregory Le Vay
The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Paul Mayersberg
Stars: Oliver Reed | Hiro Arai | Xavier Deluc | Irina Brook | Corinne Dacla
As: Gerald Kingsland
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the ...
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Oliver Reed | Tony Rickards | Frances Barber | Georgina Hale | Amanda Donohoe
As: Sir Brackley
In 15th century England, a civil war called Wars of the Roses is being fought between two rival houses who want the throne. Fresh from battle, a knight finds his family dead. He joins the outlaws led by the Black Arrow (Stephan Chase) to seek justice. The noble Black Arrow foils Sir Brackley's (Oliver Reed) plan to kill one ward (Benedict Taylor) and marry the other. This is a classic story by ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Hough
Stars: Oliver Reed | Benedict Taylor | Fernando Rey | Georgia Slowe | Stephan Chase
As: Edward Widdlecome
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. This is the story, with many erotic asides, of her struggle to regain her pride in herself and find happiness in life once again.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Gerry O'Hara
Stars: Oliver Reed | Shelley Winters | Alfred Marks | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Lisa Foster
As: Lonnegan
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Jeremy Kagan
Stars: Oliver Reed | Teri Garr | Jackie Gleason | Karl Malden | Mac Davis
As: Colonel Leachman
Directed by Mohamed Shukri Jameel.
Runtime: 170 min.
Directed by: Mohamed Shukri Jameel
Stars: Oliver Reed | James Bolam | John Barron | Yousef al-Any | Ghari al-Takriti
As: Jason Kincaid
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: William Fruet
Stars: Oliver Reed | Kerrie Keane | Peter Fonda | Al Waxman | Miguel Fernandes
As: Beasley
God throws his hands up at the foolishness of humanity and orders the race destroyed. A trio of bleeding-heart angels strike a deal with him: if they can find just two good souls, the Lord will allow Earth to survive. Unfortunately, the angels have staked the future of the species on a thieving bank teller and an inventor/con-artist
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: John Herzfeld
Stars: Oliver Reed | Olivia Newton-John | Charles Durning | John Travolta | Scatman Crothers
As: Dave Averconnelly
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London home.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Piers Haggard
Stars: Oliver Reed | Klaus Kinski | Nicol Williamson | Sterling Hayden | Sarah Miles
As: Krokov
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her defection. Woody uses this request as leverage to use the CIA's resources to bring his comic book creation, Condorman, to life to battle the evil Krokov.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Charles Jarrott
Stars: Oliver Reed | Barbara Carrera | James Hampton | Michael Crawford | Jean-Pierre Kalfon
As: Gen. Rodolfo Graziani
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Runtime: 173 min.
Directed by: Moustapha Akkad
Stars: Oliver Reed | Anthony Quinn | Rod Steiger | Raf Vallone | Irene Papas
As: Dr. Henry Heckyl/Mr. Hype
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Charles B. Griffith
Stars: Oliver Reed | Virgil Frye | Sunny Johnson | Maia Danziger | Mel Welles
As: Dr. Hal Raglan
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: Oliver Reed | Art Hindle | Henry Beckman | Samantha Eggar | Nuala Fitzgerald
As: Terence Sutton
A dedicated teacher (Glenda Jackson) tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Silvio Narizzano
Stars: Oliver Reed | Michael Murphy | Glenda Jackson | Rosalind Cash | John Standing
As: Eddie Mars
The classic Raymond Chandler tale retold with Mitchum taking over the Bogart role.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Michael Winner
Stars: Candy Clark | Robert Mitchum | Joan Collins | Sarah Miles | Richard Boone
As: Jim Wilson
Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. The two of them get into a fight and things quickly get out of control and the police are called and in turns into a hostage situation...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Peter Collinson
Stars: Oliver Reed | Stephen McHattie | John Ireland | Susan George | Raymond Burr
As: Nick McCormick
A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killings.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Richard Compton
Stars: Oliver Reed | Stuart Whitman | Deborah Raffin | John Ireland | James Mitchum
As: Miles Hendon
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when they are separated and each must live the other's life.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Oliver Reed | David Hemmings | Ernest Borgnine | Charlton Heston | Mark Lester
As: Ben Rolf
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Dan Curtis
Stars: Oliver Reed | Karen Black | Burgess Meredith | Bette Davis | Eileen Heckart
As: Joe Knox
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Don Taylor
Stars: Oliver Reed | Elizabeth Ashley | Kay Lenz | Lee Marvin | Robert Culp
As: Gabriel Lee
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Peter Collinson
Stars: Oliver Reed | Sam Wanamaker | Gayle Hunnicutt | Richard Widmark | Shmuel Rodensky
As: Otto von Bismarck
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Richard Lester
Stars: Oliver Reed | Malcolm McDowell | Florinda Bolkan | Alan Bates | Tom Bell
As: Princess Carolyn's Servant
A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer/piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, with ubiquitous phallic imagery and a good portion of the film devoted to Liszt's "friendship" with fellow composer Richard Wagner. The film begins during the time when Franz would give piano performance to a crowd of shrieking teenage fans while maintaining affairs with his (multiple!) mistresses. He eventually seeks Princess ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Ken Russell
Stars: Roger Daltrey | Paul Nicholas | Ringo Starr | Sara Kestelman | Rick Wakeman
As: Frank Hobbs
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Ken Russell
Stars: Oliver Reed | Ann-Margret | Elton John | Roger Daltrey | Eric Clapton
As: Athos
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Richard Lester
Stars: Christopher Lee | Oliver Reed | Michael York | Raquel Welch | Richard Chamberlain
As: Hugh Lombard
Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing various unpunished crimes, which sets off a series of murders in the hotel.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Peter Collinson
Stars: Oliver Reed | Richard Attenborough | Elke Sommer | Herbert Lom | Charles Aznavour
As: Athos
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Richard Lester
Stars: Oliver Reed | Michael York | Faye Dunaway | Frank Finlay | Richard Chamberlain
As: Vito Cipriani
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Sergio Sollima
Stars: Oliver Reed | Fabio Testi | Agostina Belli | Paola Pitagora | Frédéric de Pasquale
As: Fabrizo
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Dino Risi
Stars: Oliver Reed | Marcello Mastroianni | Lionel Stander | Bruno Cirino | Carole André
As: Tom the butler
A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant begins to dominate his master, to the alarm of the newly hired German nanny who senses sinister, demonic intent in Tom's control of the house.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Andrew Sinclair
Stars: Oliver Reed | Derek Jacobi | Fiona Lewis | Anna Gaël | Meg Wynn Owen
As: Harry Lomart
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Douglas Hickox
Stars: Oliver Reed | Ian McShane | Edward Woodward | Frank Finlay | Jill St. John
As: Russ McNeil
In the not too distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules and gets in a lot of trouble. (Z.P.G. stands for Zero Population Growth.)
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Michael Campus
Stars: Oliver Reed | Geraldine Chaplin | Don Gordon | Diane Cilento | Eugene Blau
As: Sergeant
A WW2 deserter holes up on a farm with disastrous results. Overlooked gem with Glenda Jackson in one of her best roles and Oliver Reed playing a part he was made for.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Michael Apted
Stars: Oliver Reed | Glenda Jackson | Anthony May | Jenny Lee Wright | Brian Deacon
As: Urbain Grandier
A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Ken Russell
Stars: Oliver Reed | Vanessa Redgrave | Dudley Sutton | Gemma Jones | Max Adrian
As: Frank Calder
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Don Medford
Stars: Oliver Reed | Candice Bergen | Gene Hackman | Ronald Howard | Simon Oakland
As: Patrick Standish
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a liking to her. But who will be the lucky one who wins her affections?
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Miller
Stars: Oliver Reed | Hayley Mills | Sheila Hancock | John Bird | Noel Harrison
As: Michael Caldwell
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Anatole Litvak
Stars: Oliver Reed | John McEnery | Bernard Fresson | Stéphane Audran | Samantha Eggar
As: Gerald Crich
Close friends Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich begin romances with siblings Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. After the couples wed, they take a joint honeymoon to Switzerland, where things begin happily -- but they become increasingly complicated as the trip continues. Rupert and Ursula are determined to stay faithful to one another, while the aloof Gerald and the eccentric Gudrun turn to infidelity and ...
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: Ken Russell
Stars: Oliver Reed | Eleanor Bron | Alan Bates | Glenda Jackson | Jennie Linden
As: Brooks
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed | Michael J. Pollard | Wolfgang Preiss | Karin Baal | Helmuth Lohner
As: Ivan Dragomiloff
The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Basil Dearden
Stars: Oliver Reed | Diana Rigg | Philippe Noiret | Telly Savalas | Curd Jürgens
As: Bill Sikes
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Runtime: 153 min.
Directed by: Carol Reed
Stars: Oliver Reed | Mark Lester | Shani Wallis | Harry Secombe | Ron Moody
As: Andrew Quint
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed | Michael Hordern | Orson Welles | Harry Andrews | Carol White
As: Ethan
In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: David Greene
Stars: Oliver Reed | Carol Lynley | Gig Young | Flora Robson | Judith Arthy
As: David George Robert Tremayne
Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Crawford is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who gets caught. After Crawford is forced to resign from the army after an episode of unappreciated cleverness, the two decide their careers would go better if there was a large amount of publicity, ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed | Daniel Massey | Harry Andrews | James Donald | Michael Crawford
As: La Bete
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Oliver Reed | Rita Tushingham | Barbara Chilcott | Blain Fairman | Rex Sevenoaks
As: Ali Kahn
1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen offensive against the colonial enemy. They capture a foreign journalist and Case recounts his story of false accusation on trumped-up charges, instigated by the bigotry and racism of his commanding officers. Following a successful attack ...
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: John Gilling
Stars: Oliver Reed | Katherine Woodville | Glyn Houston | Duncan Lamont | Yvonne Romain
As: Moise
An American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish "beatniks". Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Oliver Reed | Mike Pratt | Ann Lynn | Louise Sorel | Clifford David
As: Tinker
In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the leader of the group, Tinker, a strolling ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed | Julia Foster | Harry Andrews | Jane Merrow | Barbara Ferris
As: Captain Sylvester
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: John Gilling
Stars: Oliver Reed | Lionel Jeffries | Michael Ripper | Jack Hedley | June Thorburn
As: King
An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Joseph Losey
Stars: Oliver Reed | Shirley Anne Field | Viveca Lindfors | Macdonald Carey | Alexander Knox
As: Simon Ashby
Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is is coddled by his aunt in their palatial mansion outside of London. One day, Ashby's long lost brother mysteriously arrives at the house, but events prove that he is an impostor, sent by Keith Kossett, son of the attorney for the family estate, who has been dipping into the family trust fund.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Freddie Francis
Stars: Oliver Reed | Maurice Denham | Alexander Davion | Janette Scott | Sheila Burrell
As: Brocaire
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: John Gilling
Stars: Christopher Lee | Peter Arne | Glenn Corbett | Kerwin Mathews | Marla Landi
As: Harry Cobtree
What secret lay behind the dreaded Marsh Phantoms, the ghostly riders whose silent approach in the darkness of the bleak, unwelcoming Romney Marshes causes men to die of fright? Are they a genuine manifestation or a cover for illegal smuggling activities. Perhaps Dr Blyss, the benign vicar of the quiet village of Dymchurch, knows the truth about the ruthless pirate and smuggler who lies buried in the ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Peter Graham Scott
Stars: Oliver Reed | Peter Cushing | Patrick Allen | Michael Ripper | Yvonne Romain
As: Plaid Shirt
A British architect's (David Farrar) daughter spites her French stepmother (Noëlle Adam) by hanging out with Soho beatniks.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Edmond T. Gréville
Stars: Christopher Lee | Noëlle Adam | Adam Faith | Gillian Hills | David Farrar
As: Leon Corledo
Throughout his upbringing, unnatural phenomena surround Leon. He is plagued with a terrible curse, over which he exercises no control. During the full moon he changes into a ferocious beast, initiating an orgy of indiscriminate killing. His love for Cristina enables Leon to suppress his lycanthropic feelings - until the engagement is broken off, which precipitates a tragic conclusion.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Stars: Oliver Reed | Clifford Evans | Anthony Dawson | Yvonne Romain | Catherine Feller
As: Poet
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Brian Desmond Hurst
Stars: Terry-Thomas | Joan Sims | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Nicole Maurey | Billy Lambert
As: Lord Melton
Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury. The plotters, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Earl of Newark, have set an ambush for Walter and Lady Marian Fitzwater. Will Robin get to them before it is too late?
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing | Nigel Green | Richard Greene | Richard Pasco | Sarah Branch
As: Clubbesitzer
After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling human personalities, the kindly, generous Dr Henry Jekyll succeeds in freeing his own alter ego, Edward Hyde, a sadistic, evil creature whose pleasure is murder.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Stars: Christopher Lee | David Kossoff | Dawn Addams | Paul Massie | Norma Marla
As: Mick
A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Guy Green
Stars: Richard Attenborough | Michael Craig | Bernard Lee | Alfred Burke | Pier Angeli