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Parkinson interviews Oliver Reed - 1973 - pt1

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Uploaded by on Nov 17, 2010

Oliver Reed is now best remembered for the chat show appearances where he turned up apparently 18 sheets to the wind and made an arse of himself. It was not always so. When sober, he was a dream guest. Lucid, interesting, thoughtful, funny and a fund of superb anecdotes. Here he is in 1973, with Parky, Dame Isobel Barnett, and Mickey & Sherri Spillane. Remember him THIS way.

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  • oliver reed rocks !

  • Oliver Reed is one of the true legends in film history, gifted, difficult and contradictory. That is what life is all about. It doesn't make sense to condemning him for his alcohol problems. Some people make so high moral demands on people of public life. But the same people can't fullfill this demands. I call this people selfrightous. Oliver was a great actor, not always a "gentleman", but a charismatic and interesting personality.

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  • whats happened to all of richardEldons comments in this video? they have seemed to have disappeared? anyone else see them?

  • CLASS RIP OLLIE..

  • After watching countless classic interviews from these legends of old, I suddenly find a strange feeling of despair encircling me, brought on by the realisation that television has become dumbed down much much further than I could ever have anticipated. British broadcasting is now excessively commercial, and it suffers tragically.

  • He is heroic. Pisses all over the little twat in the edge who sits there, waiting for the camera.

  • @PortsmouthNoir so true, yes, we don't have guys like this anymore. The world has become pussified.

  • @RichardElden I agree with most of your statement but he was definitely not talentless. He oozed a sort of unique kind of Heathcliffe-like (as in Wuthering Heights) moody smoldering charisma in his earlier films. Whether nepotism was involved who knows but he certainly had a screen presence.

  • @nevilleprinsloo maybe two or three whiskeys, never sober before a chat show. He hated them and was VERY nervous.

  • @Korea4Me Burton, O'toole, Harris, Marvin and most of the same generation would technically be labelled alcoholics today. If you are seen more than once a week with a drink in your hand you're having a "crisis". Actors need to grow balls.

  • What a great 'stache.

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