Bill
Sikes...Oliver Reed
(February 13 1938 - May 2 1999)
Oliver Reed had made more than 20 films
before Oliver! made him famous, and he has appeared in over 60
afterwards. I haven't seen all of them of course, but those I have seen, well,
some are good and some are not quite as good. In Oliver! he must be
doing one of his best performances, this is a great example of good
typecasting. A Swedish encyclopaedia describes him as a talented actor as well
as a man with a strong masculine charisma. R. is the nephew of Carol Reed.
Films: The Trap 1966, Women in love 1969, The Devils 1971, The three musketeers
1974, Castaway 1987, Treasure Island 1990
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"The man (---) was a stoutly-built fellow of about five-and-thirty, in a black velveteen coat, very soiled drab breeches, lace-up half boots, and grey cotton stockings, which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves; -- the kind of legs, which in such costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a set of fetters to garnish them. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck: (---) He disclosed (---) a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three days' growth, and two scowling eyes; one of which displayed various parti-coloured symptoms of having been recently damaged by a blow." / Charles Dickens