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Oliver Reed
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Patron saint of alcoholics and legendary quoffmeister.
33.3% of the piss up dream team - the other two thirds being Richards Harris and Burton. Strange how they're all dead!
The master of hissing malevolence in Received Pronunciation, he notably starred in the '70s ecclesiastical titfest The Devils. Finest hour? Throwing a few fucks in to a bunch of lefties on After Dark... totally trousered! Marvellous! Doing the definitive 19th century nasty, Bill Sykes (in 1969's Oscar-winning and otherwise-familyesque musical Oliver!), also helped quite some.
Reed starred as a provost sergeant in The Triple Echo and as 'Vulcan' in Baron Munchausen and claims to have got pissed on the set of The Three Musketeers (1973) and woke up shagging some bimbo (Amanda Donahoe) on a desert island with a crew filming him (Castaway 1986). Now that's class!
