Peter O’Toole said that he was thrown off a flight from Paris to London (stopped in Brussels) for being too drunk, apparently the first person to claim that honor.
This guy was wild! Check out his misogynistic drunken rants on talk shows back in the day. I almost peed myself laughing when I watched them the first time.
In all fairness, he was pretty creepy in Burnt Offerings. That’s one of my favorite horror movies.
He died of a heart attack in a bar after downing three bottles of Captain Morgan’s Jamaica rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey and Hennessy cognac, and beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling. His bar bill for that final lunch time totaled 270 Maltese lira, almost £450, about $594.72.
A friend of a friend was on a stag night with most of his rugby club. Oliver Reed turned up to the same bar, drank everyone under the table, disappeared, then reappeared early the next morning to wake everyone up, clutching a crate of beer. Legend!
“One Sunday morning, he dropped down dead on the floor of a pub. He probably had a couple of pints and said, ‘I don’t feel good,’ laid on the carpet and died.”
He was so good in The Devils
Looks like he’s almost done with breakfast.
Just decided to look up Oliver Reed and man does his son resemble him!
Legend.
The legends were legendary in their carousing as well as their drinking …
While working on a film ‘Ollie’ was in ; I commented about his apparent ‘boozy’ breakfast, & he pushed me to the ground, no major damage BUT…
A legendary badass.
You sold me queer giraffes!
Guy definitely enjoyed the piss
Peter O’Toole said that he was thrown off a flight from Paris to London (stopped in Brussels) for being too drunk, apparently the first person to claim that honor.
Burnt Offerings was a spooky movie he starred in…
Shadows and dust…
This guy was wild! Check out his misogynistic drunken rants on talk shows back in the day. I almost peed myself laughing when I watched them the first time.
In all fairness, he was pretty creepy in Burnt Offerings. That’s one of my favorite horror movies.
Great talent it is a shame that the drink became his passion
Everyone should watch him in *The Three Musketeers*! Best Athos ever to play the role.
Bullseye come here!!! Bullseye come here!!!
Drinking himself within an inch of death, only to finish the job on the set of Gladiator years later. So sad.
Is this Harry Dubois (Tequila Sunset) irl?
So underrated, especially in the United States.
He must have been so fun to party with.
Whenever I see him now I can only think about Shelly Winters throwing water in his face when he went on a misogynistic rampage on Johnny Carson.
Curse of the Werewolf was Hammers only werewolf film and he rocked it as a beast man.
he looks like joe exotic in this picture
Say what you want about the 70s, but they were having a good time, all the time.
A man for all seasons.
I wonder who the biggest British actor of the 1960s/1970s was who wasn’t an out-of-control drunk.
He died of a heart attack in a bar after downing three bottles of Captain Morgan’s Jamaica rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey and Hennessy cognac, and beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling. His bar bill for that final lunch time totaled 270 Maltese lira, almost £450, about $594.72.
A friend of a friend was on a stag night with most of his rugby club. Oliver Reed turned up to the same bar, drank everyone under the table, disappeared, then reappeared early the next morning to wake everyone up, clutching a crate of beer. Legend!
“One Sunday morning, he dropped down dead on the floor of a pub. He probably had a couple of pints and said, ‘I don’t feel good,’ laid on the carpet and died.”
He was a school friend of my dads. Ewell Castle school, Surrey. Apparently he wasn’t a drunk at that time but was a half decent boxer.
I imagine that soon after this he got into a fist fight with the entire kitchen staff
A true drunkard!
Fabulous photo👌 of a guy who could make famed boozers like Richard Burton & Richard Harris look like teetotallers 👌🤔👏👏👏