An absolute one off there will never be another Oliver Reed. There will never be another Viv Stanshall or Peter Cook all we get now is whining fannies like James Corden.
Yes but you have to understand the man has the right politics as far as the people who kept on employing him are concerned. Our teles are now infested with talentless left wing c - -ts. Prime example who is the BBC s highest earner Gary Lineker( another leftist prick that lives as far away from diversity as possible) who when you take the matches away on match of the day he is actually only in front of the camera for about a quarter of a hour once a week
Ollie is buried in Churchtown Co. Cork in Ireland. Someone once suggested to Ollie he should consider cremation, he replied, " With the way I drink, It'd take a week to put out the fire!"
I once met Alex in a pub opposite a barracks in London I offered him a drink and shook his hand. He later came over and said enjoy your day such an unassuming man but a gent 😊
My brother lives in Fulham. He was on the piss with George Best Until, Best's Wife came in and dragged him out of the pub He was only sent to the shops to get milk !
I met Ollie numerous times when he visited my nightclub in Guernsey, he once muscled up to me and accused me of eying up Josephine his partner, "You'll be banned if you start this crap" I said, whereby he gave me a slobbering kiss. My doorman beat him at arm wrestling too and Ollie took out a full page advert in the Guernsey press to announce the fact. A bull of a man but so charismatic when not totally deranged through drink.
I remember seeing Alex Higgins at Norbreck Castle when I was 11 years old... I followed him towards the toilets during a game and asked him to sign my snooker cue case... He was so annoyed and told me that it was the wrong thing to do... BUT he still signed it for me anyway :) Absolute Legend !!!
I remember reading Alex Higgins' autobiography & he tells a story of going on the lash with Ollie at Ollies gaff which ended up with Alex hanging out a window by his fingertips & Ollie throwing hatchets at him which almost took his fingers off a few times. Absolutely bonkers the pair of them.
they took the piss because he was drunk. i was a kid my dad worked the docks in dublin i meet him in the dockers pub on the keys.what a man i was only a kid at the time.what a man a legend
I read Alex Higgins book that he published in 1986 Alex Through The Looking Glass he mentioned his three days he had with Oliver Reed would make a great film
Oliver Reed was always keen on a "bender" (British slang for a drinking session) and I recall one time he was gone for 3 days and drank 104 pints of cider - legend.
I met Alex Higgins in97 in withington where he used to live at 3 am he asked me to get him crack he pestered me for around 10 minutes outside of this wine bar .he was pissed .I kept telling him no I couldn't .he kept saying "get me a crack effort" I will pay you.i grew up idolising him I felt bad for the way he ended up in his final days ......
My pal once told me a story that years ago he had pals doing some specialist joinery work for Oliver Reed at his house and they came down from the North East and the work was about 2 or 3 weeks worth i think he said. So the first day about lunchtime his butler said Mr Reed would like you to join him for a drink, so they politely refused and were told if they wanted to stay employed this wasnt an option. This continued for weeks and they didnt get the job finished until about 3 month later cos they were always ill off the drink. Now i always thought this story might not be true until about a year ago he introduced me to one of the 3 lads who actually did the work, who confirmed it and said by the time they got home all their birds had left them but it was the best 3 month of his life. 🤣🤣🤣
I made the film IM NO ANGEL with Alex and have a 30 min unedited tape of this interview with Olly reed..i forgot about it i will upload it to you tube soon
I’m amazed at the self-adoration of many actors. They think they’re great because they pretend to be someone they are not and admired for being someone they are not. Congratulations, you’re great at playing make-believe! Ironically the real life character of many of these people is so obnoxious that you wouldn’t want them to be your neighbor.
Oliver Reed and Keith "Moon the Loon" Moon, each had their own pub, at the end of their respective driveways where they often attempted to outdrink each other.
Yes, brilliant! I wasn’t being disrespectful to Mr Reed I just love his mad use of language and how he was so engaging…imagine a night in the pub with him!!!
I nearly lamped a geezer once who stood on my foot as he turned away from the bar with 2 pints of lager in his hands.It was Alex Higgins, he just glared at me, no apology, his policy was probably ‘my fame is my security’, I was stunned that it was the cheeky bastard that I admired playing genius snooker on BBC 😂 - Sandpiper nightclub, Fallowfield Manchester 1983.
I remember the Sandpiper well. Never went there - too young. But lived around the corner. Different times. United goalkeeper Gary Bailey lived there too. You could stop and chat in the street with people like him, Alex Higgins, Tony Wilson, Steve Coogan, Richard Madeley in those days (1980s). I know that to be true, because I did.
@@GreenMorningDragonProductions i remember Gary and that super blonde Barnet of his 😂 I didn’t know the Richard andJudy bloke lived in that area nor ‘jumpers for goalposts’ Steve Coogan or Tony Wilson for that matter (although he was to know that bit of Manchester well when he got sick with cancer as Christies hospital is there) I don’t doubt you bumping into any of the stars of that era. Mancunians are like that, if stars are not approachable then you’re stuck up your own arse and we’re not havin you 😂 - I saw Pete Barnes of Man City fame getting fish n chips after a street footy knock about in the late 70s and Julie Goodyear from Coronation St in kinky lounge lizard wear in the city centre just off Oldham Road in 1983. Perhaps the most famous star spotting was Rudolf Nureyev, I saw the famous ballet dancer loitering about a bus stop in Piccadilly Gardens in summer 1982 as I caught my last bus home. He was appearing in a show at the Palace Theatre at the time. It didn’t make sense to my naive teenage head at the time what he was doing there, and how few others actually noticed him. Only years later when it came out he was gay and died from AIDS did the pieces come together. It’s almost unbelievable what I’ve seen and other famous people I know personally and been to school with, I was only born and raised in a poor and unremarkable area of Manchester. Perhaps that’s exactly whats needed to motivate some to get out and about and make something of themselves 😂
I have got movie DVDS of Oliver Reid with Charlton Heston David Hemmings in The Prince And The Pauper and in Hannibal Brooks and with Michael Ripper and Peter Sallis in The Curse Of The Werewolf as I am dedicating these movie DVDS to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
I LOVE THE WAY HE SAYS "WHISKY" AS IF IT WAS A SWEAR WORD 0:29!!!!, AND THEN HE SAYS BASTARD LOADS OF TIMES PROUDLY, ( oli died on on a pub floor years b4 the hurricane though)
@msc1969x no its not a swear word, its so much more than that, I can't quite describe it but its more to do with the denial, and, because of that denial, the very *affirmation* of that wild side of Reed- a few whiskys probably meant days on end of drinking followed by not much actual discussion of the business in hand at all...
I get the feeling hanging out with Ollie would either get you a damaged reputation, a damaged liver or pregnant, or probably some combination of the above
There is the rub hahahahahahaha...............nothing do with fact your alcoholics back then.........great actor with attitude and immense snooker player who am I to deny
If there is one actor who for me was one of the greatest, it was Oliver. Not because we share the same name - no, the man was just different, iconic, in a different class. Unfortunately booze got the better of him - RIP laddie!!
Made some films for Hammer in the early days. The most famous been The Curse of the Werewolf. He was also bloody good in the Assassination Beurea with Diana Rigg.
By rub , he means obstacle or difficulty. it comes from Shakespeares Hamlet where he contemplates suicide so he can dream of a better life but by doing so ,may end up dead.! theres the rub.
@@donovanreimer2324 'Aye, there's the rub' is a line from 'Hamlet'. It means there is an insurmountable drawback or flaw in a given situation, if you're still interested 4 years later 😆
@@ziggypop8106 thank you sir. Yes I realized soon after. Not living in an English environment sometimes means we can forget things. Very kind of you to reply like this.
An absolute one off there will never be another Oliver Reed. There will never be another Viv Stanshall or Peter Cook all we get now is whining fannies like James Corden.
Gillian Chillman-Black bang on 👍
Ben McGrath
It's up to the non-famous men to be the eccentrics now as we are undercover. Away from the cunts at the media.
Yes but you have to understand the man has the right politics as far as the people who kept on employing him are concerned. Our teles are now infested with talentless left wing c - -ts. Prime example who is the BBC s highest earner Gary Lineker( another leftist prick that lives as far away from diversity as possible) who when you take the matches away on match of the day he is actually only in front of the camera for about a quarter of a hour once a week
Corden, schooled in High Wycombe where I have the misfortune to live. At least he left, improving the crap hole marginally.
Viv Ollie and Cook absolutely true statements by u...today's lot oh my
The most sober moment of this interview is when he says "Whiskeys". Complete and utter focus there.
lol
😂👍
Best part of the interview.
Brilliant!! Love it.
A Moment of Clarity.
Went into the study and had a few mmm mmm whiskeys .
Yeah I don't think they were whiskeys if he had to pause to think lol
Ollie is buried in Churchtown Co. Cork in Ireland.
Someone once suggested to Ollie he should consider cremation, he replied, " With the way I drink, It'd take a week to put out the fire!"
It is said that none of the flowers that grow on his grave can stand up straight...
I once met Alex in a pub opposite a barracks in London I offered him a drink and shook his hand. He later came over and said enjoy your day such an unassuming man but a gent 😊
A gent? You must have caught him on a good day.
My brother lives in Fulham. He was on the piss with George Best
Until, Best's Wife came in and dragged him out of the pub
He was only sent to the shops to get milk !
I met Ollie numerous times when he visited my nightclub in Guernsey, he once muscled up to me and accused me of eying up Josephine his partner, "You'll be banned if you start this crap" I said, whereby he gave me a slobbering kiss.
My doorman beat him at arm wrestling too and Ollie took out a full page advert in the Guernsey press to announce the fact.
A bull of a man but so charismatic when not totally deranged through drink.
That's awesome!
Great story. The man was a legend! Where exactly did he live on Guernsey? I know he drank at the Jamaica Inn or Tavern, but that's all.
Great stories. 🤠
Ollie was a very articulate speaker. A great character
"I was more interested in Crumpet" 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant
Lol crumpet
@@richardjamesss438 I thought he said “ I was instant crumpet” ....😆
I miss the word crumpet.
Steptoe and son:- "Ohhh Harold.... I want a bit of crumpet" ....
@@ShadSimm Exactly what I thought
Alex Higgins bought my Dad a pint in a BA departure lounge in Glasgow Airport back in the 80's.
i dont believe you
I remember seeing Alex Higgins at Norbreck Castle when I was 11 years old... I followed him towards the toilets during a game and asked him to sign my snooker cue case... He was so annoyed and told me that it was the wrong thing to do... BUT he still signed it for me anyway :) Absolute Legend !!!
I had a similar experience in the early 1970's with Canadian Kawasaki motorcycle rider Yvon DuHamel at Mallory Park.
@@georgebuller1914 who fucking cares!!
Huh? The f*ck are you talking about, ya mad one. Snooker, drink, women and Ollie Reed are the subjects here.
I remember reading Alex Higgins' autobiography & he tells a story of going on the lash with Ollie at Ollies gaff which ended up with Alex hanging out a window by his fingertips & Ollie throwing hatchets at him which almost took his fingers off a few times. Absolutely bonkers the pair of them.
There was nothing remotely amusing about Alex Higgins. He was a nasty little runt with a self-pitying streak a mile wide. A truly awful human being.
At least he could play an entertaining game of snooks..
I take it he owed you money?
Raveonette he made much more of of an impact on planet earth than you have and inspired loads of people. What the fuck have you done? Fuck all
@@Mrpublicimagelimited wanker
AN HONEST MAN IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD....MAINLY BECAUSE HE WAS 80 PERCENT IF THE TIME ARSEHOLED
I just love Oliver Reed. More charisma in one of his toenail clippings than most of the rest of us could ever muster in a lifetime! RIP Oliver.
Right on. The antithesis of the woke idiots today
Oliver reed and alex higgins. 2 hellraisers and 2 major drinkers!
Which brewery/distillery manufactured this 'Charisma' you mention?
They were true icons..old school and never gave a fk about anything.
@@grimupnorth bet he was more interesting sober than you’ll ever be!
Oliver Reed what a great actor he was , he didn't give a fxxk where you came from or how famous you was , he was a real peoples Man .
they took the piss because he was drunk. i was a kid my dad worked the docks in dublin i meet him in the dockers pub on the keys.what a man i was only a kid at the time.what a man a legend
Love both Ollie and alex
I read Alex Higgins book that he published in 1986 Alex Through The Looking Glass he mentioned his three days he had with Oliver Reed would make a great film
"Giant snake!!"
Lol
Oliver Reed. The best drinking buddy a man could ever have lol
The brilliant Oliver Reed didn't care about anything always said what he wanted we lost a fabulous actor rip
I just love the way you cut off the video just as Alex was beginning to tell his side of the story. Real classy.
I know.. horrible..
Oliver Reed was always keen on a "bender" (British slang for a drinking session) and I recall one time he was gone for 3 days and drank 104 pints of cider - legend.
*drank
@@andyroberts4387 bloody auto spell! Well spotted, changed now
How can you not love Ollie
Alex Higgins owes me £200. I don't think i'll ever get it.
I met Alex Higgins in97 in withington where he used to live at 3 am he asked me to get him crack he pestered me for around 10 minutes outside of this wine bar .he was pissed .I kept telling him no I couldn't .he kept saying "get me a crack effort" I will pay you.i grew up idolising him I felt bad for the way he ended up in his final days ......
Oliver was a man's man and great talent
I must admit I loved Ollie. Such an ass who didn't give a sh&t about anything . . . we need more like you, sir, today in 2023!!
"We went into the study and had a few, errrr, whiskies." So, a few lines of coke Oly.
I doubt it was the chocolates that made him sick
earing too much chocolate.does.male.you sick!
@@Constavlos Drinking too much booze makes ya sicker.
@@Angel-Adramelech Doing too much cocaine makes you very sick.
@@dublinsfaircity and you know that because?
Subbed, because it's real. And funny and we need it.
This has got to be what inspired The fast show character "drunk guy" I was vary vary drunk at the time....poisonous monkies 🤣
Best Bill Sykes ever
My pal once told me a story that years ago he had pals doing some specialist joinery work for Oliver Reed at his house and they came down from the North East and the work was about 2 or 3 weeks worth i think he said. So the first day about lunchtime his butler said Mr Reed would like you to join him for a drink, so they politely refused and were told if they wanted to stay employed this wasnt an option. This continued for weeks and they didnt get the job finished until about 3 month later cos they were always ill off the drink. Now i always thought this story might not be true until about a year ago he introduced me to one of the 3 lads who actually did the work, who confirmed it and said by the time they got home all their birds had left them but it was the best 3 month of his life. 🤣🤣🤣
damn fine work
Bumped into Alex Higgins in a bar on holiday in Turkey (1995)
He sat and had a drink with us.
And that my friends, is what a lifetime of whiskey does to a man's brain.
How different today’s people are so much fun when I was growing up
One of the great raconteurs.
That must have been a hell of a night out......had Ollie had a few liqueur s before this interview ....probably.....
I made the film IM NO ANGEL with Alex and have a 30 min unedited tape of this interview with Olly reed..i forgot about it i will upload it to you tube soon
An overcoat and a box of chocolates when he wanted a crate of whisky - so MEAN!!
Went into the study and had a few (dozen) whiskeys.
I think there's a picture of the two of them in a bath together with a couple of women present. Loved Higgins in the 80's.
Oh I see. ‘There’s the rub’. The difficulty. The central problem. Hamlet. Of course. Terrific.
Yes Ollie is just great.
I love the way he says “err..whiskey’s”
"and we were both very very drunk".
'Which incedently made me sick'
These guys had one other thing in common
They both died at 61
Would loved to have met Ollie
Fantastic!
Both males full of character and life, legends
full of booze too
The chocolates made him sick because there wasn't any alcohol in them.
This reminds me fondly of my whisky drinking days
He really is a mean bastard .
I’m amazed at the self-adoration of many actors. They think they’re great because they pretend to be someone they are not and admired for being someone they are not. Congratulations, you’re great at playing make-believe! Ironically the real life character of many of these people is so obnoxious that you wouldn’t want them to be your neighbor.
I totally agree with that.
God I miss personalities like this. I'd love to see Oliver Reed fight Leonardo DiCaprio or Jonny Depp!
@Evan Mann at the same time
He talks nice an easy calm
Damn, that would have been a party, the Hurricane and the Tornado.
Would make a good guest at any dinner party
My kind of man
Looks like A-team's Hannibal in disguise.
There will never be another me
Oliver Reed was quite the fighting man too. And tough to boot. Same as John Bindon. These men could have it proper.
Binden was an animal. With a degree of class..
There's a guy from Aberdeen that no one recognise. But he's rich as feck!!!!
But everyone knows Alex the hurricane Higgins.
That's some epitaph
Legend. What the hell was he talking about?
Hell raiser: A short actor who can't hold his liquor.
Absolute loon. “Hes madder than mad jack mcmad the winner of last years madman of the year competition”
Oliver Reed and Keith "Moon the Loon" Moon, each had their own pub, at the end of their respective driveways where they often attempted to outdrink each other.
Yes, brilliant! I wasn’t being disrespectful to Mr Reed I just love his mad use of language and how he was so engaging…imagine a night in the pub with him!!!
All I can think of is Paul Whitehouse “ very very drunk “ sketch .
Lol good old Oliver god bless his soul
I think it was all a bit of a blur for both of them.
"We had a few mmmwhiskies" *deep inhale*"
I nearly lamped a geezer once who stood on my foot as he turned away from the bar with 2 pints of lager in his hands.It was Alex Higgins, he just glared at me, no apology, his policy was probably ‘my fame is my security’, I was stunned that it was the cheeky bastard that I admired playing genius snooker on BBC 😂 - Sandpiper nightclub, Fallowfield Manchester 1983.
shouldn't be trying to bum him then.
@@christopherfarrington9270 You can get help for your obsession with gay bum chum fantasies. People are very understanding nowadays 😂
@@Pulsonar 😁😂😂🤣.
I remember the Sandpiper well. Never went there - too young. But lived around the corner. Different times. United goalkeeper Gary Bailey lived there too. You could stop and chat in the street with people like him, Alex Higgins, Tony Wilson, Steve Coogan, Richard Madeley in those days (1980s). I know that to be true, because I did.
@@GreenMorningDragonProductions i remember Gary and that super blonde Barnet of his 😂 I didn’t know the Richard andJudy bloke lived in that area nor ‘jumpers for goalposts’ Steve Coogan or Tony Wilson for that matter (although he was to know that bit of Manchester well when he got sick with cancer as Christies hospital is there) I don’t doubt you bumping into any of the stars of that era. Mancunians are like that, if stars are not approachable then you’re stuck up your own arse and we’re not havin you 😂 - I saw Pete Barnes of Man City fame getting fish n chips after a street footy knock about in the late 70s and Julie Goodyear from Coronation St in kinky lounge lizard wear in the city centre just off Oldham Road in 1983. Perhaps the most famous star spotting was Rudolf Nureyev, I saw the famous ballet dancer loitering about a bus stop in Piccadilly Gardens in summer 1982 as I caught my last bus home. He was appearing in a show at the Palace Theatre at the time. It didn’t make sense to my naive teenage head at the time what he was doing there, and how few others actually noticed him. Only years later when it came out he was gay and died from AIDS did the pieces come together. It’s almost unbelievable what I’ve seen and other famous people I know personally and been to school with, I was only born and raised in a poor and unremarkable area of Manchester. Perhaps that’s exactly whats needed to motivate some to get out and about and make something of themselves 😂
I have got movie DVDS of Oliver Reid with Charlton Heston David Hemmings in The Prince And The Pauper and in Hannibal Brooks and with Michael Ripper and Peter Sallis
in The Curse Of The Werewolf as I am dedicating these movie DVDS to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
I LOVE THE WAY HE SAYS "WHISKY" AS IF IT WAS A SWEAR WORD 0:29!!!!, AND THEN HE SAYS BASTARD LOADS OF TIMES PROUDLY, ( oli died on on a pub floor years b4 the hurricane though)
Lmfao!! I noticed that too. Hahah
@msc1969x no its not a swear word, its so much more than that, I can't quite describe it but its more to do with the denial, and, because of that denial, the very *affirmation* of that wild side of Reed- a few whiskys probably meant days on end of drinking followed by not much actual discussion of the business in hand at all...
Louis now dresses McGregor .
I get the feeling hanging out with Ollie would either get you a damaged reputation, a damaged liver or pregnant, or probably some combination of the above
😂😂😂
Plus a few hangers on and false friends sadly.
He's a genius.
At what?
It would be great to know what this is about.
"The chocolates... Which incidentally made me sick 🤮" lol 😂 😂 😂 ollies a legend
who doesn't like crumpet...
There is the rub hahahahahahaha...............nothing do with fact your alcoholics back then.........great actor with attitude and immense snooker player who am I to deny
I is Poet laureate innit
ive watched this 39 times! magic very funny,, hurricane being hurricane,, sniff,,sniff.. hahahahahaha
higgy wasnt a coke heed- it was a nervous disposition - he always ticked on.
I know Wikipedia isn't always the best source however it says he admitted to doing coke and weed.
Olie the man
"But I was vewy vewy, dwunk..."
@krispyringo He said "Interested in crumpet".
"zher izz zzerr rub"
That's one drunk mo' fo'
Peas in a pod, blind leading the blind etc. :)
His glasses were always crooked...
That never stopped him raising them to his lips.
@@TallSilentGuy : 🤣🤣🤣That's good simon
Yes
If there is one actor who for me was one of the greatest, it was Oliver. Not because we share the same name - no, the man was just different, iconic, in a different class. Unfortunately booze got the better of him - RIP laddie!!
Whiskey go down easy after a few lines well that's what granny says
I know the name but i can not remember a single movie, where he played a role in. Except the role of Proximo ofc.
That's ok nor could he...
Oliver 1968 iirc.
Made some films for Hammer in the early days. The most famous been The Curse of the Werewolf.
He was also bloody good in the Assassination Beurea with Diana Rigg.
@Gameplay Videos yes, you're right about Bond but I believe he lost out to Roger Moore. Would have been awesome in my opinion.
What was that story about? Trying to get Hurricane into acting?
A REALLY GOOD DVD AND FOR A CHANGE NOT POLLUTED WITH CRAP BACK GROUND.
Sandy was a legend, Ollie was a !
Alex must have thought Ollie meant hustling people for money at pool and snooker, he would never get away it. :)
What is a coocoo monk?
What is Ollie on about?
Who cares!? That a real man there!
“And I thought, there is the rum.”
Can anyone help me understand what this means or what it refers to.
CORRECTION ‘rub’ not rum. Someone please!
By rub , he means obstacle or difficulty. it comes from Shakespeares Hamlet where he contemplates suicide so he can dream of a better life but by doing so ,may end up dead.! theres the rub.
gavin reid , well done Gavin, lifting the plebs.
@@donovanreimer2324 'Aye, there's the rub' is a line from 'Hamlet'.
It means there is an insurmountable drawback or flaw in a given situation, if you're still interested 4 years later 😆
@@ziggypop8106 thank you sir. Yes I realized soon after. Not living in an English environment sometimes means we can forget things. Very kind of you to reply like this.
Imagine Will Smith trying to slap this lad 👦
🤣