totalfilm: 30 Awesome Actors Who Deserve Biopics 4. Oliver ReedThe Actor: A brooding, larger than life presence on screen, Reed was famed for a string of tough performances in films like The Three Musketeers and Oliver! He also managed the not inconsiderable feat of making nude, man-on-man wrestling seem macho in Women In Love. Well played sir.Their Amazing Life: A renowned hellraiser and womaniser, Olly Reed’s life would make for cracking entertainment, from the bar-room brawl that left him needing 63 stitches in his face, to the legendary drinking contest he had with Steve McQueen in the early ‘70s. Even his death has a certain heroism to it, with a chronically ill Reed spending his last night drinking and scrapping with a group of sailors in Malta. He died of a heart-attack the following day.Key Scene: Whilst filming the wartime drama Hannibal Brooks, Ollie endears himself to the locals by tearing down the Austrian flag from outside the crew’s hotel and urinating upon it. As the shoot moves on to Germany, there is more of the same, as Reed enters a bar decorated with every national flag save Britain’s. Grabbing the terrified manager, Reed snarls, “I’m coming back tomorrow night. If you haven’t got a Union Jack by then I’m going to trash this place.” There is no Union Jack the following night so Reed puts a bar stool through the window. View full size

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30 Awesome Actors Who Deserve Biopics

4. Oliver Reed

The Actor: A brooding, larger than life presence on screen, Reed was famed for a string of tough performances in films like The Three Musketeers and Oliver! He also managed the not inconsiderable feat of making nude, man-on-man wrestling seem macho in Women In Love. Well played sir.

Their Amazing Life: A renowned hellraiser and womaniser, Olly Reed’s life would make for cracking entertainment, from the bar-room brawl that left him needing 63 stitches in his face, to the legendary drinking contest he had with Steve McQueen in the early ‘70s. Even his death has a certain heroism to it, with a chronically ill Reed spending his last night drinking and scrapping with a group of sailors in Malta. He died of a heart-attack the following day.

Key Scene: Whilst filming the wartime drama Hannibal Brooks, Ollie endears himself to the locals by tearing down the Austrian flag from outside the crew’s hotel and urinating upon it. As the shoot moves on to Germany, there is more of the same, as Reed enters a bar decorated with every national flag save Britain’s. Grabbing the terrified manager, Reed snarls, “I’m coming back tomorrow night. If you haven’t got a Union Jack by then I’m going to trash this place.” There is no Union Jack the following night so Reed puts a bar stool through the window.

According to Robert Sellers’ book Hellraisers, Moon and Oliver Reed were placed together in a hotel far away from the rest of the crew during the filming of Tommy, quite probably for the safety and the mental health of the rest of the cast and crew.
One night, the pair sat up late, drinking. Finishing one bottle of brandy, they called down for another, but the porter didn’t answer the phone. Indignant, Moon picked up the television and threw it out of the window - it smashed loudly outside the hotel entrance.
The porter came running out. “Ah, there you are!” Moonie shouted out of the window. “Answer the fucking phone or my bed’s coming next!
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Keith Mooning’s.: Predator VS Alien: Moon and Oliver Reed Part 2

 
In his autobiography, Reed all about me, Oliver Reed remembered one night when filming Tommy, when he came back to his hotel suite to find 14 girls swigging champagne and eating lobster sandwiches “I said: ‘Good evening, girls, what can I do for you?’ and they told me, but I was much too weary after my journey.” Guessing who was responsible, Reed eventually tracked down Moonie to his hotel room “He was lying on the floor of his bedroom, without a stitch on, with two Swedish models sitting on his face. I said: ‘Excuse me, Mooney’. He said: ‘Umm?’ or something equally unintelligible - Swedish girl’s bottomss are not conductive to articulate conversation.” Once Reed had told Moonie about the occupants of his room, Moonie “marched down the corridor, bollock naked”, and threw a tray of champagne glasses across the room to scare away the groupies. The next morning the two men, said Reed, wrote a song together with the touching lines: ”I want you to sit on my face/ I want you all over the place/ I want you when you’re on the loo/ I think that’s fantastic, don’t you?/ Oh yes’ “I knew the path to the bar” Reed said later, “but not to the bizzare. Keith showed me the way to insanity
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Keith Mooning’s.: Predator VS Alien: Moon and Oliver Reed, Part 1

 
youngcrackedbrokewriter: Oliver Reed celebrating after drinking 126 pints in 24 hours. View full size

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Oliver Reed celebrating after drinking 126 pints in 24 hours.

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<3 this one…

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injustice-worth: You want to fuck with that? BECAUSE IT’S PROBABLY NOT A GOOD IDEA. I’m just saying. Might as well count your face busted in. View full size

injustice-worth:

You want to fuck with that?

BECAUSE IT’S PROBABLY NOT A GOOD IDEA.

I’m just saying. Might as well count your face busted in.

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ashlystz:

Happy 35th Anniversary TOMMY!

Just finished watching a special screening of TOMMY with director Ken Russell in attendance.  What a great, great film!  I like to think that Oliver Reed is the kind of handsome that you don’t ever really think about… until you see him. 

Take a look and tell me otherwise!

almadora: the legendary oliver reed at rest… doing one of the things he does best.   View full size

almadora:

the legendary oliver reed at rest… doing one of the things he does best.  

almadora: oliver reed… one of my favorite photos of this incredible man.  i love him… the good, the bad, and the ugly.   View full size

almadora:

oliver reed… one of my favorite photos of this incredible man.  i love him… the good, the bad, and the ugly.  

almadora: oliver reed kisses a friend.   View full size

almadora:

oliver reed kisses a friend.  

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