OLIVER REED - RUSSELL HARTY SHOW - 6 NOVEMBER 1978 - LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION

OLIVER REED - APPEARED ON THE RUSSELL HARTY SHOW - ON THE 6 NOVEMBER 1978.
HE TALKS ABOUT HIS LATEST FILM - THE GREAT SCOUT AND CATHOUSE THURSDAY - WITH LEE MARVIN AND KAY LENZ. A CLIP OF THE FILM IS SHOWN.
THIS IS A FASCINATING INTERVIEW OLIVERS VIEWS ON THE FILM INDUSTRY ARE CORRECT AND EVENTUALLY THE TAX BREAKS FROM GOVERNMENT FINANCING FOR THE FILM INDUSTRY HAS TAKEN PLACE RESULTING IN AMERICAN FILMS BEING MADE IN THE UK.
SORRY NO OPENING TITLES OR CLOSING CREDITS BUT IT WAS A LONDON WEEKEND SHOW BEFORE RUSSELL MOVED TO THE BBC FOR HIS HARTY SHOWS.
COPYRIGHT LONDON WEEKEND TV - 1978

[@alexcarratu5554]

Oliver was a true acting powerhouse. Such a talented dude. There will never be another Oliver Reed

[@SouthernNurseAndTheLaw]

Indeed !

[@Alan-J-Mock]

His son, Mark, who looks just like him, until recently used to go to the Hand in Hand pub in Wimbledon, just off the common. Superb bloke too.

[@alexcarratu5554]

@@Alan-J-Mock, I've heard good things about Mark from fellow fans of Ollie. Mark seems like a genuinely nice man and is a credit to his Dad. He is the spitting image of and sounds a lot like his Dad and has always spoken well of his Dad.

[@alanmurray5963]

His performance as Bill Sykes was unforgettable. He rests in my homeland, 🇮🇪

[@leonardmcdermott7703]

In a graveyard opposite a pub.

[@mindfulclarity169]

Bullseye!

[@Headoffury]

That is ?

[@BarnabyABartIII]

You say this like he was a staunch British patriot. Typical cork brown nosing. Mortified haha

[@d.e.p.5624]

What a gorgeous man and intelligent, sensitive human being

[@clifftanton8385]

Women want him Men want to be like him forgot when I was a kid in the70s my mom took me to see The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday never forget that a true legend

[@PaulHunter-ih1ye]

R.I.P Oliver Reed. One of the Truly Great British Actors of all time. Intelligent, Wonderfully Spoken, Sense of Mischief and Humour. Along with Harris, O' Toole and Burton also one of the Greatest Hellraisers.

[@steeleye2112]

Not sure I could have handled the hellraising, but you can tell by the performances what an intelligent, eloquent, hard working decent guy he was when sober.

[@garyproffitt5941]

The late and great Oliver Reed.

[@RichieRichMD]

Oliver was the whole package, love him in the early 60s Hammer Films and everything thereafter. His Proximo in Gladiator was a fitting end to a superb actor and human being.

[@eponymousarchon7442]

Whilst recently studying Spanish I became aware that Proximo translated is NEXT. A fitting name for a champion Gladiator and a Champion Drinker.

[@mindfulclarity169]

Great gladiator and working with Karen Black in that haunted house was great.

[@patricianeal4821]

My brother used to drink with ollie years ago in putney and chelsea he used to stand up and say come over here boys and drink with a international filmstar he was such a lovely man my brother said you would be turn round then he was wrestling on the floor with someone 😂😂 one of Englands finest .... love him, great actor and a lovely kind human being god bless him RIP Ollie god knows what he would make of the woke lot today i know what he would say and think 😂

[@thesean68]

Oliver Reed had it all… There’s never been anyone else like him, or ever likely to be sadly. First class 👌🏼

[@Sinnerboy88]

RIP Oliver. Passed away 25 years ago today. 2nd May 1999.

[@clives344]

In Valleta Malta 🇲🇹

[@newsbender]

Lucky bastard got out while things were still good and before the craziness began.

[@Sinnerboy88]

@@newsbender You're not wrong there. Funny enough, I was just thinking earlier today.. I don't think Oliver would have liked the world today. He'd probably have found it very strange, if not ridiculous. Even in the 60s and 70s he always seemed to be a man that would have fit in better in an earlier time.. as he even found many things in the mildly progressive 70s odd, so I can only imagine what he'd have though of the present day. I don't like how the world has ended up.. I look back to these old times and think "I wish I'd have been around in those days.. living in the 70s before everything went wrong." He would have felt very out of place in the current era, with all the social change.. political correctness and mass offended, social media and smartphones.

[@zamiadams4343]

I'd have loved to have a pint with this great actor.

[@jamesparker40]

What blood group are you?😂😂

[@richardwitherow5289]

@@jamesparker40 Are you looking for a donor?

[@d.e.p.5624]

I would have loved to have a few things with this man...❤

[@clifftanton8385]

I will have six with him he will be standing I will be passed out a true legend

[@trebsscan9644]

Hope ur a bloke otherwise u have to get a drink in the ladies section of a bar

[@robinpeach-toon2595]

thanks for sharing. intelligent questions provoking intelligent answers. where the funk is this kind of interview nowadays?

[@kevinaldridge]

I live near Broom Hall and when I was a teenager my friend lived there with his family in the 80s/90s when it had been divided 3 or 4 separate, but still, massive houses. There were peacocks painted on the ceiling of the dining room and a well stocked wine cellar. We wood climb out of a top floor window and go onto the flat roof drinking and the like. Enjoyed the video. What unique madman he was. 😂😁

[@joebarrow6577]

fabulous stuff

[@robharding5345]

Such a passionate orator, and a true patriot. and the most important bit, He could really act.

[@peternicholls6532]

Oliver Reed's intelligence was beyond most people..he was a shy person in real life, but overcame that obstacle in acting.. That is what he loved most in life. A True Gentleman in a World of Corruption.

[@DouglasCarnall]

Russell Harty is so precious. Obviously we didn't watch ITV, and watching this clip now, this seems like a good decision

[@terencehennegan1439]

When sober the man oozed charisma. No one could tell a story like him, very engaging, very entertaining and what a great actor he was.

[@Jimbo.jack47]

Love Oliver so much. Asked about Britain's future he doesn't talk about Thatcher or post industrial Britain but talks about pirates....so cool

[@benrogers3311]

Ollie lost his dear friend Keith Moon two months before this interview. He would've still been heart broken.

[@ontologicallysteve7765]

Which would've made him sober for this interview? Pretty sure he quit drinking after Moon's untimely demise. At any rate, there'll never be a other Ollie. RIP

[@JamesWho1]

The stories of what they got up to sound hilarious surprised theres not been a documentary about them yet

[@Videoholic.2598]

Proper English man. Very rare these day's

[@ruthelainefry2076]

Olly was wonderful , he would weep if he saw England now .

[@CastlesForEyes]

I remember watching these wondaful chat shows with my grandfather at a very young age. They very very slowly faded away, and I miss them. Closest we get now is KZbin shows, as there's certainly nothing like them on TV these days.

[@harrypalmer4857]

Such a fantastic voice.

[@claudiafreitaslorre1095]

Um homem lindo com uma voz linda

[@wexofilms4294]

A great Film Actor and a great interview. All the Best, Ollie

[@alanmurray5963]

Oliver Reed: "I have two ambitions in life....to drink every pub dry and to sleep with every woman"

[@claudiafreitaslorre1095]

Beleza , talento e inteligencia tudo em um só ator , como nao amar oliver reed?

[@biggdogg99848]

Not one in a million Oliver was one in a billion guy was class

[@lesleycouch6557]

The one and only.

[@Infurnace]

He speaks calmly and reasonably, with facial scars that say the other stuff for him. A true badass, RIP.

[@johnrowbotham6429]

The deserved hellraiser reputation distracted from his thoroughly professional work ethic.

[@donnasmyth45]

He was so good looking.

[@SistorCarrera]

great days love this man

[@user-le8oz8rc1o]

Oliver Reed 🥰🥰💕💕💕🌹

[@timelordvictorious]

its so sad hearing what Oliver is saying as we have lost a lot of our film companies to America now sadly

[@a..c..2469]

As an American I apologize for how we've ruined it

[@TheGava4]

There here now! Warner Bros has their studio here…

[@vantheman1238]

I love Oliver Reed ❤

[@mollycuddle9990]

I love him and moon ❤

[@mithunkartha]

Oscar's all around for the livers of O Toole, Harris, Reed and the other hell raisers.

[@cobbler40]

He packed a lot in a short life blighted by alcohol. God bless you RIP.

[@RSR423]

Blighted my arse, Oliver enjoyed every minute of his life and wouldn't of had it any other way. You have such a narrow minded view of it all with your "blighted" diagnosis of Oliver's career.

[@AmericasChoice]

When sober, a great interview.

[@mycatsdead]

good man. praise him. what a hero.

[@777tractorboy]

A real character was Oliver Reed , tough too 👊🏻

[@clifftanton8385]

Tough as it gets held is own with Marvin Marvin loved him

[@Lewzz-t4d]

Brilliant

[@davidh503]

Very cute there with his cropped hair.Add a moustache: GREEK GOD !!!❤

[@michaelhuxley1302]

The most disturbing horror flics of all time was Ollie in the flic The Devils! he really put his all into a story of a character in a medieval flic of torture!! Based on a true story!!😮

[@garryharriman7349]

Oliver bares a slight physical reemblance to another wonderful and much loved performer, John Thompson.....'NICE!'

[@davidh503]

Oh, they are both gorgeous, I concur

[@SouthernNurseAndTheLaw]

Oliver Reed on the talk show tour in the fall of 1978. Pete Townsend and Reeds friend Keith Moon were in USA on the talk show tour GMA appearance that August 7, 1978 Promoting The Who’s new album . It would be Moons last interview. Moon passed away Sept 7, 1978.

[@grahamluna6935]

He had it all!!

[@clen7206]

The Raquel Welch stare into the camera was just priceless😂

[@Lockyoriginal1]

For such a character and always breaking the so called rules he spoke so well - not many characters about nowadays - appears to be frowned on now !!! They make life far more interesting!

[@williamsmiler184]

A true one off.

[@FrankensteinintoFranken-FINE.]

I dont drink anymore, but if oliver wanted a drink id go for one.

[@SilverSurfer5150]

Russell Harty was a really good interviewer.

[@leighbennett1961]

sometimes...

[@Discover-Ireland]

Legend

[@denesecarberry8826]

He had great taste in fashion. Very goodlooking. A fabulous personality. Beautiful voice. He was just a bit unpredictable when it came to alcohol..🤷‍♀️ But sure, aren’t we all😝

[@patrickpayne8330]

This Dear beautiful actor, oliver ...closed by local pub by having a " drink up" with his family and friends after filming " this is your life.... they TOTALLY wreaked, never to be reopened.... The pub was there well known "Red rover" on the upper Richmond Rd

[@henrydeval150]

Imagine what he would have thought about the UK tax system now. Everyone I know is leaving.

[@dorisjohnson2933]

Legend were are people like this now 😮

[@terrycallow2979]

Good times Oliver, Good Times.

[@twiley3530]

2025 what would he think? One of his best interviews I’ve seen him do. ❤. I have a mighty crush on him

[@rogerpritchard]

I doth my hat kind gentleman.

[@SistorCarrera]

on the piss with ollie reed oh i wish

[@krisscanlon4051]

The scariest thing about Ollie is that deadeyed stare beyond that he was just a wacky carousing lad 😂

[@sabastianerard2714]

Richard Burton left Britain he said “I made $100.000 after tax he had a new Jaguar $6,000.” It was 96% tax at one point, socialism doesn’t work. Keeping business and the high wealth people in the country by fair tax is better in the long run.

[@Rockpig1969]

Yes fair tax rather than virtually no tax.

[@ChefZee1964]

he would’ve made one of the James Bonds ever, and it almost happened.

[@csantoi]

7:10 he does such a great American accent

[@speak_your_truth.]

Hartleys body language is so funny. Leaning away and wouldn't look Olly in the eye

[@stephenh5865]

A man of Vision.

[@gor069]

I want that jacket.

[@John-mz8rj]

If he was around now.

[@MrDavey2010]

Seems a fun guy!

[@ShredCo]

17:01.. His friend, Alex Higgins showed him how to snooker people like this.

[@SirKurtAffair]

He was never drunk. It was all an act. All of it.

[@SCR94]

That's what they all say. Same with O'Toole, Harris and the likes of Dean Martin. But let's be honest. They all had drinks problems. Which in 1 way, adds to the legend - but in another, the likes of Ollie were taken advantage of. Plied with alcohol in the green room before talkshow appearances, and then sent to make fools of themselves. While the talk show host would tut with false indignation, as if they had no idea what was going on.

[@noonebutHimallways]

Yeah no.

[@turbochrist]

"I was there for the Pakistani-West Indian cricket match" 😅

[@leejones8582]

He sounds very posh he may have been a drunk but he was a good actor.

[@casualchauncey]

He was posh

[@RenegadeSound]

@@casualchauncey He never sounds any different even when he's acting .

[@voltage3d469]

I disagree, Englishmen will be buccaneers again. Just a matter of time.

[@RSR423]

If only hey my friend. Sadly England, and the rest of the island is lost, it will never be great again because we don't have the backbone of yesteryear. We are now the toilet of the world, with shite from all corners of the globe filling it.

[@psycho8927]

Its been like that before and will be again. Britain has not yet had its say. ​@@RSR423

[@TruthBot1984]

Traitors and Coward's have destroyed England.....

[@a..c..2469]

I thought he was Mark Hamil when i first seen the thumbnail

[@bartonbank2531]

That cathouse film looked a bit shit

[@jaygarrick3984]

Looked dreadful. A lot of OR's films were shite, but he sure did make some classics, too😀

[@vantheman1238]

@@jaygarrick3984well said. He made films to pay for his estate Broome Hall in Surrey. He turned down Robert Shaw’s parts in Jaws and The Sting because he didn’t want to leave England and be a Hollywood star. I love Oliver Reed and he would have been great in those films, however, Shaw was also brilliant.

[@Pulsonar]

Funny, looking back to when Ollie died at 61, some 25 years ago it seemed to me like he wasted so much talent and opportunity. But in fact now that I’m his age I feel as though I’m the one who’s wasted, barely scratching the surface of a middling engineering career, and on the eve of being turfed out by AI. Ollie did at least rack up many great performances that he will be remembered for by millions amongst the well documented shenanigans that he also enjoyed to max 😂

[@williamcurrie5236]

🐐

[@philipbonner6486]

The press were C and they still are and still always be C.

[@opinionday0079]

God that movie they played a clip from look really really bad

[@Peter-gv2gn]

Oliver said yes absolutely he was prepared of course to support the Welfare State but alas that was the 1970,s , he stayed when the Conservative Party won in 1979, now we in 2025 with another Labour wrecking crew in charge have the same problem, people are leaving in droves who have money, the clowns in charge then in the 1970,s ( 1976 onwards) have their equivalent in 2025 forcing the money people out, some things never change.

[@rogerslater6182]

He was a great entertainer / actor but not always very pleasant after a few too many sherbets .

[@StephenMerchant-up8sg]

12:08 mmmm...now what does that look mean?? I've read he turned her down

[@opinionday0079]

My god is kind of insane

[@KeithDeley]

A badger isn't bald

[@jonathangagne7109]

Intelligent - person - drinker - NOT 'LISTENED TO.'

[@pippipster6767]

The impressive thing about OR is that he can talk such nonsensical BS with a completely straight face 😂

[@andrewpredeth9038]

Whos watching this .. drunk as fk

[@Illuminationheliios]

One eyed open

[@tdarben]

Javier Bardem, that is all I will say😂

[@dafinker3443]

Harty is NOT HEARTY AT ALL AND SUPER RUDE

[@TheParanormalPathfinder]

I feel so sorry for people that can pay ridiculous amounts of tax and still afford a 53 bedroom mansion. It's criminal.

[@gagiman7273]

Was Harty gay

[@jamesparker40]

Did Reed like to drink?😂😂

[@bartonbank2531]

Was the pope catholic?

[@clives344]

Who Cares

[@flashtheoriginal]

He was. And mmmmm what a kisser. Golden memories

[@vantheman1238]

Raging 😂

[@JimJim-kh8rw]

Robbie Williams double 😂

[@Mrleejunman]

He's a cross of Robbie Williams and Ross kemp

[@mollycuddle9990]

@@Mrleejunman never. Ian dury maybe...

[@freddyfurrah3789]

I like Oliver. 😂

[@simonmhood69]

Clearly his best and final was gladiator

[@vantheman1238]

He was brilliant in Oliver, The Devils and Women in Love.

[@bobrew461]

it would've been the rebirth of his career.. ...if he had stopped his drinking competitions.