Birth Name: Robert Oliver Reed
Date of Birth: 13 February, 1938
Place of Birth: Wimbledon, London, England
Date of Death: 2 May, 1999
Place of Death: Valletta, Malta
Ethnicity: English, small amount of German, Lithuanian, Dutch
Oliver Reed was a British actor. He was the only or one of the only major British film stars to have never appeared on stage. Oliver’s uncle was director Carol Reed.
Oliver’s paternal grandparents were Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (an actor, born Herbert Draper Beerbohm, the son of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm and Constantia Draper) and May Pinney Reed. Hebert was a sibling of author/explorer Julius Beerbohm and author Constance Beerbohm, and a half-sibling of parodist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm. Julius was of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German descent. Constantia and May were English.
Oliver’s maternal grandfather was Lancelot Napier Andrews.
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