Robert Michael Winner was a British filmmaker, writer, and media personality. He is known for directing numerous action, thriller, and black comedy films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including several collaborations with actors Oliver Reed and Charles Bronson.
Winner in 2010
Winner, with Geraldine Lynton-Edwards (red jacket), at a book signing for his autobiography
Robert Oliver Reed was an English actor. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in Oliver!, Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), the stepfather in Tommy (1975), The Brood (1979), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000).
Reed in 1968
Reed (left) with Carole André and Marcello Mastroianni in Dirty Weekend (1973)
Broome Hall, Surrey, Reed's home for eight years from 1971
Appearing with Kate Millett on the After Dark programme "Do Men Have to Be Violent?"