Great Drunks: Oliver Reed, Actor
3 Comments Published by Joel January 5th, 2007 in Beer, Booze, Great Men. Share ThisBritish actor Oliver Reed was infamous for showing up for talk show appearances completely sauced.
Quoth Wikipedia:
He died suddenly from a heart attack during a break from filming Gladiator in Valletta, Malta, reportedly after drinking three bottles of rum and beating five sailors at arm wrestling at a bar called “The Pub.”
The entirety of “Oliver Reed After Dark” is on on Youtube, should you need 60 minutes of Reed blitzed to ballblazer.
After the jump, a classic drunk actor clip, as Orson Welles tries to puke out enough words to get through a champagne commercial.
…my childhood with my father all over again.
Modern Drunkard Magazine had an article on Andre the Giant last summer that told of his stupendous appetite for booze. He even invented a new way for anesthesiologists to determine amount of anesthetic to administer that’s still used to this day:
“The time arrived, and the anesthesiologist was frantic. He had never put a person of Andre’s size under the gas before and had no idea how much to use. Various experts were brought in but no solution presented itself until one of the doctors asked Andre if he was a drinker. Andre responded that, yes, he’d been known to tip a glass from time to time. The doctor then wanted to know how much Andre drank and how much it took to get him drunk.
“Well,” rumbled the Giant, “It usually takes two liters of vodka just to make me feel warm inside.” ”
TWO FUCKING LITERS TO GET A BUZZ!? Holy SHIT!
That Orson Welles clip is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen. That, from the guy who used to do his radio dramas unrehearsed.