Oliver Reed (1938-1999) Actor 

Most probably with Claudia Cardinale, not Sophia Loren

Neville Cawas Bardoliwalla OBE - His philosophical, intellectual portrayal was done by Christopher Hitchens. Both had that biting English wit and mastery of well-done sarcasm, slightly slurred by abundance of liquid refreshments.

​@caseyjoanz Neville ruddy who?

Len Hummel Shelley Winters messed w him.

Re nato Yes! Perfectly right you are.

Two thugs armed with broken bottles messed with him pretty badly once in a public loo- his face bore the scars for the rest of his life! Thankfully he was such a great actor, his star quality overcame the disfigurement.

I heard not long after it happened that got glassed in a bar fight at the Central YMCA in London.

He was about the rudest human being alive at the time, many have taken his place since.

Too right

@@dabneyoffermein595 it was all a show to make people like you cringe

@@jackmehoffe9372 cringe? do you even know the definition?

@@dabneyoffermein595 when I see you try and talk to women slag

I hear ya. But then again, Ollie Reed lived the life he wanted. May people one day say the same of you.

Peter O'Toole, George Martin, various posh blokes...

Agreed x

Agreed. Broccoli paid too much attention to an actor’s off screen persona unfortunately. He did the same to Lewis Collins who also would have been great as Bond.

I loved him with Glenda Jackson in "Women In Love".

Very memorable performance

Will, Shelly was a jealous pig who would sleep with anybody and took offense that he was being a consistent gentlemen despite her bad behavior. Carson should have banned her from the show forever. Sean Connery would have slapped her across the stage.

Dont think he was in any of the versions of Wuthering Heights.

If I ever go to Ireland I would do the same. Was thinking about it while watching this and smiled when I saw your comment.

Nothing wrong with being divided, you dont see Canada and the US trying to be one. Ulster voted to remain with the UK and still does to this day. Only a minority want a united ireland. NI is quite happy where it is we just have a very vocal opposition to it who used bullets and bombs to try and get their way. They failed of course. NI will forever be British and rightly so.

Ask any 99% of Brits & they will tell you they love our Irish cousins on both sides of the divide. As always religion karate chops societies in two with it's skeletal death hand & some very unfortunate history. To think how far we have come though in the last 30 years is staggering & hopefully the further progression of things!

I always loved Oliver Reed, and I only recently found out I am mostly Irish heritage. So I suppose it must be genetic! He was beautiful, talented, and outspoken.

I hear ya. I really depends on if you have a need to be known in America. Many actors move to America to get international exposure, but Ollie Reed already had that. I'm American, but I've become a complete convert to the British film and television community. My friends and family think I'm weird because I watch more British tv than American. I say don't knock it til you've tried it; you might find out there really isn't much on American tv. And British films just seem to be made with more care. But me, I'm a weird American I guess. I think anyone who doesn't watch foreign films, who has never seen a film with subtitles, is a philistine.

VeracityLH Needing to be known in America (to be known internationally) is the problem. I’m American too & share your tastes, but no US friends of mine would ever question them. They know there’s more to this life than our monolithic, stratifying, stranglehold on the rest of the world. Best of continued luck to you.

of course teh big money is there....the one person i regretted seeing cross over to Hollywood was hugh laurie...and the stupid HOUSE he made there....asking a pure bred british actor, well known at that , to act american and speak american..I will never understand that. But of course the americans wanted it...i hope hugh laurie is back in britain and doing somehting wonderfully british...now

Sorry. GP

K, like they say at least he died doing something he loved .

Died in a bar in Malta drinking with Royal Navy guys

peter e Yes I did research on it and found some of the stories about how he spent his last day... someone talked about all the alcohol he drank before he even started drinking with the men from the Royal Navy... they also said he was laying down on the floor taking a nap and that's when they realized he was going into heart failure.... I forget the rest of the story I don't know if they said that he died at the hospital or on the way to the hospital... my memory isn't working too good right now and I only just saw this info the other day when somebody said he would have probably lived if it wasn't for something that had to do I think with the ambulance or the hospital people.

Rossco Picoltrane Lo and behold. ☺️🎓🤓

mckavitt smart arse 👅

Mark Hamill likely took a page from Oliver's book. I definitely agree with you. He might have found it another way, but it no doubt changed the persona of being the young actor who might have been typecast for a Luke Skywalker simple naive guy to a witty gentleman that isn't afraid to be a Joker-pun intended.