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The Brigand of KandaharOliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) British leading man, the nephew of director Sir Carol Reed (1906-76), who began his film career at Hammer playing handsome young rakes or twitchy psychopaths in such films as The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (aka House of Evil, 1960), The Curse of the Werewolf (1960), Captain Clegg (aka Night Creatures, 1962), Pirates of Blood River (1962) and Paranoiac (1963).
An accomplished film swordfighter, Reed portrayed Athos in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), and Return of the Musketeers (1989). He played Vulcan in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) and Miles Hendon in Crossed Swords (1977), based on The Prince and the Pauper.
Cast as unruly rebels in films like The Damned (aka These Are the Damned, 1961), he subsequently lived out his life as one. He died of a heart attack while drinking with friends in Malta during the filming of his last movie, Ridley Scott's Gladiator.
Despite notable appearances in such films as The Devils (1971), Tommy (1976), Burnt Offerings (1976), ''The Brood (1979) and The Pit and the Pendulum (1990), many of his later performances bordered on self-parody. His autobiography was entitled Reed All About Me.
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