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r fice star. ise His face was scarred during a 1963 bar fight a r llafter which he received 63 stitches; it almost he y r n da n i cost him his film career. en fte iour eg o l d ore hav Numerous anecdotes about his binge drinking an , m n be or e t r exist, such as Reed and 36 friends drinking 60 c e u a fig runk sses. sh gallons of beer, 32 bottles of scotch, 17 bottles i e t f i d i e -l Br of gin, four crates of wine and a bottle of Babyan s and succ te h a t l e cham in one evening. He subsequently revised er rank cting g r th la is p is a the story, claiming he drank 106 pints of beer y l h h tru for for on a two-day binge before marrying Josephine. a s n s wa new tha e th He made several drunken appearances on TV chat shows but hated being questioned about his drinking. In September 1975, in front of a Profile speechless Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, the bellicose Reed had a glass of Full Name: robert Oliver reed whiskey poured over his head on-camera by an enraged Shelley Winters. His appearance on Birthday: London, 13 February 1938 Michael Aspel’s Aspel& Company was voted the 90th Greatest Television moment of all time age: when deceased: 75 for a Channel4 poll in 1999.
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sign: Aquarius Birthplace: Wimbledon Marital status: Kate Byrne (1959–69); Josephine Burge (1985–his death) Children: son, Mark, with Kate Byrne and daughter Sarah, with his lover Jacquie Daryl, a classically trained dancer whom he met on the set of the film ‘Oliver’ Occupation: Actor Died 2 May 1999 of a sudden heart attack while filming in Valletta, Malta; he was born and died on a Sunday. After serving in the Army Medical Corps, he began acting as an extra in films in 1957. He had no acting training or theatrical experience. He appeared uncredited in two Norman Wisdom films, The Square Peg (1958) and The Bulldog Breed (1960), and got his first significant roles in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), Captain Clegg (1962), Pirates of Blood River (1962), and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). He also starred in Paranoiac and The Damned (1963) At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted him the fifth most popular box of-
Apparently, police were once called to a remote rural location close to Reed's home in the early hours of the morning, due to complaints that a number of naked men had been seen running across fields. The naked men were a rugby team who Reed had spent the evening entertaining. He is alleged to have finally realised the effects alcohol were having on him when he woke up drunk, lying on the baggage conveyor at Galway airport. His many pranks included spiking snooker star Alex Higgins' whisky with Chanel perfume. Higgins reacted by squirting washing-up liquid in Reed's crème de menthe. In 1979, Reed turned a soda siphon on himself and other celebrities at a World Sporting Club boxing event in London, then jumped into the ring and did his own version of "The Stripper".