In good spirits: why actor Oliver Reed was always drunk but never bored

What Fresh Lunacy is this? The authorised biography of Oliver Reed

In good spirits: why actor Oliver Reed was always drunk but never bored

As Athos, in the film The Three Musketeers, Oliver Reed spoke a line that summed up his personal philosophy. ā€œLife is so much more rosy when seen through the bottom of a glass of ale.ā€

Reed was born in 1938, into ā€œa household that might have looked to the casual observer to be residing in an Edwardian time warp. There was a man downstairs who was the family’s dogsbody, gardener, car washer and so on, and upstairs a nanny who looked after both children, to all intents and purposes so that Marcia [their mother] didn’t have to,ā€ his brother says.

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