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{{quote|''I do not live in the world of sobriety.''|'''Oliver Reed'''}}
English actor (1938-1999) known for his brutish persona and extraordinary real-life drinking. Some of his minor early roles were in [[Hammer Horror|Hammer films]], including ''Curse of the Werewolf'', Hammer's only werewolf movie. He also made several films with [[Ken Russell]], including ''[[The Devils]]'', ''[[Tommy]]'' (based on [[The Who]]'s rock opera) and ''[[Women In Love]]'' ([[Everybody Remembers the Stripper|notorious]] for his full-frontal nude [[Ho Yay|wrestling]] scene with Alan Bates). He played Bill Sikes in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winner, ''[[Oliver!
Reed was infamous for his heavy drinking and marathon "pub crawls". He got into a bar brawl in 1963 that resulted in a scar on his face that he was afraid would end his career; another time he threw up on [[Steve McQueen]]. However, [[Brian Blessed]] managed to wrangle him into sobriety for the length of filming on ''[[Prisoner Of Honor]]'', primarily by being large and scary (in essence, by simply being [[Brian Blessed]]). Rumor has it that his alcoholism [[What Might Have Been|cost Reed the role of]] [[James Bond]] in the late 1960s.
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