Oliver Reed on his Dyslexia, Ireland 1979
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- A sober Oliver Reed returns to the Late Late Show and talks about living with dyslexia and working as an actor.
In a surprise opening to the Late Late Show Oliver Reed takes the place of presenter Gay Byrne. Gay quickly resumes his position as the show’s host and relegates Oliver Reed to his place as a guest.
During a drunken appearance on the Late Late Show two weeks earlier the actor behaved inappropriately towards actress Susan George.
Back on the show in a more sober mood, Oliver Reed talks about living with dyslexia. From his early days struggling through school through his time in the army and later his work on stage and screen.
"I couldn’t add up and I couldn’t spell and I tried to fool them."
He appeals to anyone with a child with dyslexia to avail of the help that is now available as the problem has become recognised by the medical profession. Growing up, Oliver Reed’s parents were not aware of his problem.
"My father thought I was a dunce."
Developing coping mechanisms helped to deal with everyday obstacles. Despite his dyslexia, Oliver Reed has a very retentive memory which is useful for an actor.
He had wanted to become a doctor but dyslexia prevented him from pursuing this career.
This episode of the Late Late Show was broadcast on 28 April 1979. The presenter is Gay Byrne. - Zábava
Ollie, still knocks spots off these fake celebrities that existed back then & today. Severely underrated & sorely missed. Thank you Oliver & sleep well sir!
Well Said. Totally Agree👍
after watching many of his interviews everybody the masses drool over seem so fuckin medicore
he married a 16 year old when he was 42, so he's sleepin in hell, pal.
@@tyleriver8 He married her and stayed with her for the rest of his life, just a big age gap but it worked for them.
@@eltonlovell9898 thats a disgusting age gap. its not normal or appropriate. no one should be okay with that.
I loved this bloke, he was 100% genuine, a gentle giant. If you are up there and can see this Oliver, you were one of the best actors of the 20Th century, rest in peace fella.
As a teacher, listening to this intelligent, sensitive man describing his experience of dyslexia and parental/ school responses makes me want to cry.
Sure. Old school teaching methods damaged a lot of us. Some of us for life.
So many of us relate in our own ways, with mine being mild autistic disorder, with accompanying ADHD, which was completely shockingly overlooked and I simply became a punishable offence in myself!
It's lovely to see Ollie being really focused andf together here.
Shows how stupid teachers are.
He's acting. He's definitely, not 'dyslexic'.
Teacher are so-gullible. They can only, do as they are told. Ye're actually, proud of being a repeater 🤡😂. This pride drugs-you into thinking yee can force children into being indoctrinated. Yee surely, realise every curriculum was written by psychopaths, directed by the super-system and it's sick agenda.
Oh right - you don't. Which, makes-uou dumber than a psychopath.
That's why yee force masks on children and coerce-them into getting poisonous injections 💉. All based-on the fallacy that is 'germ-theory'. Yep - some bogie-man, in the air 🤭. It's called a 'theory' and not a 'fact' because they know it's a lie.
Look at what you've done 💙.
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I can't believe the dunce cap in the corner actually happened once upon a time.
Go on.. have a good cry then😢😂😭
RIP Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 - May 2, 1999), aged 61
You will always be remembered as a legend.
👍
The best interview on dyslexia. Great insight. The manner that Oliver Reed shares his experience speaks volume of the character of the man.
I agree, you got that completely correct
Remember too that this was from 1979 - most people could pronounce Dyslexia properly let alone tell you what it meant for someone to have it. It still took the UK a good 20 years+ before issues such as Dyslexia in students were properly addressed. Sadly many children still go under the radar.
A true gent
They told me i wouldn’t be good at poetry because i’m dyslexic
But so far I’ve made 3 jugs and a vase and they are lovely
Brilliant
I put the sexy in dyslexic.
Ah ha ha! Excellent!
Jake Stevens - They said the same of Homer and Sexhepear and look what fine potters they turned out to be - it sounds to me like you have the markings of a fine pet.
I'm jealous of the way Mr Reed talks, so well spoken, and with the humor. So charismatic
Oliver was a beautiful human being, and I mean his personality. Yes he could be a lunatic when drunk but when sober he was so engaging and intelligent. You can’t help but love him.
yeah like a great guy who is perfect except he occassionally is a pedohile.
BIT HARSH YR COMMENT. THE MAN WAS NEVER A 'LUNATIC'. BEING AN ACTOR UNDER PRESSURE, AS HE DID, WAS NOT EASY.
Total agree
Amazing actor and gentleman.
Thanks for the memories Ollie. 😊
I could listen to Oliver Reed all day.
Better than listening to him read all day apparently.
@@smarterproperty2311 😂😂😀
me to
I have adored Oliver my whole life. He represents something missing in life nowadays, and that is honesty, just be yourself and be kind xxx♥️
Me too! Agree 100% x
I recorded a video a few years ago of his resting place.
Pfft! He was a fabulous drunk and hater of women who did things back then to women that would put him in jail today. The Me Too movement would've torn this horrible man to shreds.
@@christopherp.hitchens3902 Did what things to women, and if so why have'nt they come forward?
@@Janey6511 - For the same reason victims of Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein were not able to prosecute for years. Might also be because Oliver Reed is DEAD! You dummy!
Had a boy in my class. Said he couldn’t read the words on the page. The teacher used to hit him and give him a terrible time. He told me his own father used to get angry with him also. Yrs later he was diagnosed with dyslexia. Apparently his father was in tears with the guilt of the hard time he gave his son. Oliver’s story hit a nerve with me. Poor kids back in the old days of teaching . We were taught through fear.
An amazing legendary man
Genuine & honest man. I’ve suffered from similar issues throughout my life & can’t read very well or do maths etc. Great to hear successful people who were far from stupid open up about it.
He wanted to be a doctor. I would have scheduled an appointment with him every other week with a different bogus ailment - just to be in his presence and listen to that magnificent voice. 😂😂😂😂
After the consultation he would have taken you to the pub😂😂
Highly intelligent man
Fascinating and most eloquent. One of a kind. I could listen to him all day.
I loved that man, He raise more smiles and flipping great stories when you can even imagine. Oliver, Richard Harris and my 2nd cousin Peter O Toole had the wit, honesty and kindness to stop wars, They were very rare men, how badly we need their kind in this world new and forevermore
Oliver Reed has quickly become one of my favorite actors ever. He is awesome.
One of the best interviews with Ollie I've seen, Gay Byrne clearly had his respect & brought out an earnestness in him that he rarely showed in public.
Agreed I found it very moving
Totally agree - a pro recognising another master
Because he wasn't drunk.
@@dublinius Parky got a few good interviews from Olly as well. When he was sober he was the loveliest person imaginable.
@@dublinius let's not play the nasty card - even if it's true
When sobre, he was the most impeccable chat show guest ever, actually answering the questions properly and intellectually!
When drunk, well.... lol
Great guy and awesome actor! 🍺🍺🍻
I'm not sure he was sober but not drinking anywhere near as much as he usually did here...
@@rampageclover9788, maybe so, he was after all an alcoholic! Bit compared this to some of the ones he did in the early/mid 90s, there is a difference lol
I agree. His speech and refinement, when sober is admirable.
What a gem of an upload, love Oliver Reed. He spent his last few years living in Cork and I think he is buried there too.
I didn't know that thx
Yep, buried up against a wall opposite his local pub..
Yup in Churchtown!
Died in Malta but yeah buried in church town co cork.
@@jimdoherty5010 He lived in Vincent O'Brien's hometown. There's a beautiful statue of a horse in the town square in between the pub and the cemetery. Olly and Alex Higgins used to frequent the pub with Olly having to calm Higgy down whenever he got out of hand according to the landlady of the pub.
As a teacher I too was intriqued by his honesty and candor in this interview....such a handsome man...defies description...charisma off the richter scale. I noted this interiview was from 79...people were not talking about dyslexia a great deal at that time.
I would never have thought he was dyslexic...living proof that you overcome anything if you put your mind to it
They can be very bright,and well spoken, it does effect people in different ways, the public should be more aware,about the truth of the issues they face.
I’ve always been drawn to Oliver Reed ever since I was a boy watching Oliver Twist. There was something alluring yet daring. His name had stuck in my mind and without knowing much about him at all I secretly named my son after him. It’s only been recently that I have finally quenched that curiosity and began chain-viewing docos and interviews as well as chipping away at his films beginning with The System. I was shocked and disappointed to see how much he belittled women - “they belong in the kitchen” he said in one interview. Whether he was ponying up to the camera and audience doesn’t matter, I thought little of him for that. In all the interviews he honestly behaved like a drunken buffoon - no other way to describe it really. But I knew, there was a reason for all this. Someone doesn’t just behave this way without there being proper cause. There was something there but I couldn’t put my finger on it. It was a cover - a symptom. And here it is. Of course. A deep and brutal vulnerability quashed by the one man all little boys want to eventually become - their dads. No wonder Oliver behaved like this, partly, I’m sure, for cathartic reasons, but also to say “ok, you want a gorilla? Here, here’s a gorilla”. In some horrible twist you almost don’t want Oliver to be any other way than who he was at his most raw. I said “cover” but now I see his outrageousness is just as essential as what we’ve just seen. That’s the colourful beautifully flawed man, Oliver Reed.
Very well put, he was also emotionally neglected by his mother when he was a child, he was only allowed downstairs with his parents from a really young age for an hour every evening with his older brother, they were then sent back upstairs to the nursery with the nanny, she also never gave him any affection at all, this may have been where his suspicion and low opinion of women came from.
Great analysis, Anthony. I find those drunken interviews excruciating to watch. I actually skip them altogether.. But I still adore him and something in him moves me tears, he was tough-looking, macho and chauvinistic but not far away from the surface I can also see pain and vulnerability
PS: I cried the first time I watched this interview. I am "only" dyscalculic and part of that humiliation I know very well. I was 28 when I was finally diagnosed. Up to that point it had been hell to explain why I couldn't count and say the difference between a "234" and a "423"!!!
Love him, miss him, He was amazing. And I didn't even know he was suffering from dyslexia.
This is a very vulnerable side of Oliver. Growing up afflicted by dyslexia and having everyone dismiss his intelligence must have been very distressing. Perhaps this was one of the factors influencing his alcoholism; you're very unlikely to be put in a position to read or write in a pub.
Alcholism is a large part of Irish normality.
Alcholism is also a large part of the entertainment industry in all form.
Alcholism like any addiction is ofen caused by emotional abuse sexual abuse or both.
The wounded heart full of past pain killing you slowly.
“That’s my game- I’m a professional fraud”
I love Oliver Reed, this is a gem!
at 05:41 his face was very deformed. any idea as to why?
@@dabneyoffermein595 auto crash I believe. A very bad laceration.
@@Donnoha He had a bottle smashed into his face in the 60s.
First Name, He said professional "Fooler" not Fraud, he was no fraud
@@Sean-ce1hu yes in a fight
Medicines loss, was the stages gain.
Thank god we got to see the brilliance of Oliver Reed!
A man of real substance.
He has great empathy for others.
And substances
And he achieved more in 5 minutes than you have probably done in your whole life
Thank you for uploading this. It is one of the best, most honest interviews I've seen. Oliver Reed, a true gentleman. 👍
What a fantastic interview. We are so starved of intellectual conversation on TV today
What a superbly handsome man Oliver Reed was.
I SAW HIM IN 1984...I WAS 22...AND HE WAS YUMMY...VERY STUNNING....
Handsome in mind & body..No wonder he was so popular in the pub..Where on earth would you find anyone so interesting to talk to now days.., Interviews on T.V. and Radio are embarrassing to listen to.. Oliver was always welcomed with open arms in Ireland.
Kerry & Mary - Steer clear of objectification - there’s nothing worse than meeting a woman and having to watch her wring out her underwear as you try to conduct a conversation with her saturated self.
Really loved this era of TV. Remember huge stars being on the late late. Great interviews. Now it's Z Listers and reality TV ' celebrities' on the Late Late.
One could not admire this man, his honesty and gentle authentic attitude was truly admirable.
My daughter who is very successful in life and is dyslexic,we always told her not be ashamed,she told everyone,and still does.
There is madness in all men, some choose to hide it, others choose to not only reveal it, but also embrace it. Destructive and Fascinating in equal measure. He was many things but a "dunce" he was not. RIP Oliver and I shall visit your humble resting place again one day.
I watched this as a child and have often searched for it since. Thank you for sharing it.
Oliver was such a complex character who carried many personal difficulties from his childhood. It's good to see him looking so dignified as he speaks about this issue.
Father Spyridon - A great actor among a constellation of greats, and a truly tragic character in life. Oliver Reed was magnanimous and sensitive but was burdened with more than his share of troubles. I was delighted to have seen your comment here, Father Spyridon - I’m a subscriber to your channel. Χαίρετε, πάτερ• ευλογείτε.
A strong man showing vulnerability, RESPECT. That being said, he knew that the subject of dyslexia would be addressed, right? Because I would ask beforehand, multiple times.
One of the most talented I test actors from the UK. Greatly missed but not forgotten.
How charming and well spoken the real Oliver Reed was
Great interview
A fantastic interview! Oliver Reed, the man, the myth, the legend, the genius!
Absolute legend of a Man - Intelligence, Wit, a genuine Prankster who loved the wind up and didn't mind sending himself up at every opportunity.
On top of this an articulate and softly spoken gentleman who one could listen to all day long.
Sadly the Hell-raising and booze eventually did for him but I have a sneaky feeling that he lived and left this Earth exactly as he wanted.
R.I.P Oliver Reed - Truly Great Actor and an even greater man ❤
My Hero Oliver Reed, A Spectacular Human that I learnt a great lesson, Give them what they expect of you! RIP Great man.
A great actor and true gentleman.
So articulate &. Refined. A true legend
What a great conversation, Man I was born in the wrong era.. I love Oliver Reed
I met Oliver a few times in Guernsey, he occasionally came to my nightclub in the town centre, he once muscled up and accused me of eying up Josephine his partner, I reminded him I would simply ban him if he misbehaved, he then proceeded to slobber me a kiss in jest, my doorman also beat him at arm wrestling and Ollie took out an entire page in the Guernsey press to announce the fact. He was a bull of a man with gold star charisma.
Lovely!
Wow!! What a story!
Love him to bits so I'm reaĺly envious ha 💖
You should write a book x
That is called character. Ollie had it in spades, and I'm envious of you having met him :-)
Another tall story ,,!,
@@felix2672
An absolutely true one.
Poor you, I imagine you have so little to tell anyone about anything.
Jeepers.
I can really relate to this I was deemed a Dunce and problem child by my nursery in 1980s and I was regularly In trouble during my junior school years because I was written off as an idiot because it was too difficult to teach me. All I needed was some extra time and some extra help to get things learned but there was no time for this in the 80s and 90s I wasn’t diagnosed until senior school in the late 90s one teacher recognised what I was suffering and took extra time out to help me read and write and he was the one who made it possible for me to love books and spell or play chess so well I still have times where I suffered but I cope so much better, I truly hope schools recognise this nowadays and don’t penalise children for it. Thank you Oliver you were an inspiration and proved you could do it despite this condition rest in peace.
I was written off as a dunce my whole life but chose to ignore the accusations. Now deep into my 40's I've realised they were correct all along.
Fantastic actor and a really great insightful interview. Sorely missed both on the big screen and in the more intimate setting such as this. Articulate to a fault, a man you could sit and listen to without complaint at length. A very rare trait in the day and age we find ourselves in at present.
LOVE this interview, so respectful.
Learnt more about (the real) Oliver Reed in this 10 mins on the Late Late Show than is 20 other interviews on youtube. Great clip. Gay Byrne & Oliver Reed RIP.
Brilliant upload. Love ollie. What a well spoken man with dyslexia. Great interview.
His honesty is courageous and inspiring.
The great Oliver Reed.
Always fascinating. 🙏 RIP.
If you’re an Oliver fan, this is really powerful.
I've been there teacher's said I was a dunce. Suffered with dyslexia all my life. Taught myself to read when I was about 25. Only shows now when I'm tired.
Turned out alright in the end retired at 60 with a 600,000 GBP pension fund. Happy days
Wow your inspiring I've definitely got blocks that stop me from developing a career due to the perplexing parts of learning
Congratulations..well done..you challenge it and overcome..👍👍👍
Good man Tom! Enjoy it!
Sounds like Tom's experience made him pathologically bitter, spending his whole life wanting to get his own back at the education system by trying to prove them wrong. I wonder if he personally told the teaching staff working at his old school he retired at 60 gloating to them about his big pension pot before they called the men in white coats to drag him away to the nearest nut house. 😁
Nice, 33 years until I retire.
I loved that guy.. he was authentic!
great impression of gay at the beginning. every Oliver reed video I watch is gold
I think this was an invite back to the show from a week before when he was "a little worse for wear" .. a great man and a great interview..
Wow...this is so nice to see Olliver just opening up without the need to form a front to counter the crappy attitude of the interviewer. Heart breaking really though...that his dad was so small minded. I was so intent on commenting that I spilled my Argentinian Malbec all over the place...I would have loved to have met Oliver Reed...
Great interview. Thanks for the upload. Would love to see the rest.
Never seen this interview before,really enjoyed it ,seeing this side of him
I was thinking that exact thing - stripped of his audience pleasing buffoonery and drunken antics he came across as decent and warm individual.
A genuinely lovely fellow
Thanks so much for uploading this! :)
Thank you for sharing this great interview!
At first I thought the dyslexia question, 'disease' and all, was going to be a 70s moment - then it turned into a really interesting explanation of the condition by Oliver Reed, of all people. That was cool.
Thanks for uploading this, I've never seen it before.
Great upload, I thought I had seen all his interviews.He was a character, his interview about his friendship with Alex Higgins is brilliant
What a wonderful interview .. thanks for uploading it .. it was a real pleasure to watch .. it's wasn't often that you got to see another side of Ollie Reed in an interview.
A fascinating man, he adored Ireland and its people, he was mesmerizing...
Read recently he has Irish roots, died before it came out, he would have loved to have know that...
@@stephenoneill7522 He was utterly English....
@@rnw2739 he said when he moved to Ireland "I'm home"... Said he couldn't explain it, and didn't knows he had Irish ancestery at the time...
Who doesn’t adore the Irish ☘️
@@stephenoneill7522 None of that negates his Englishness
Wonderful interview.
We never see this standard of people and interview on today's TV.
i fully agree.
Never knew this about old olly...so much respect though for being up front honest about!
Thank you for posting this treasure, can’t say just how much I enjoyed watching this and learned so much from Oliver , thank you and all the very best 🥰🙏🏻
Thank you so much for posting this, I remember the other interview with Susan George and he was accused of being drunk, and he did the most amazing trick of gymnastics around a chair
Thanks for posting
Radiating sheer charm and charisma.
look beyond the booze and he was an absolute gentleman ..
Such a relief to see a sober interview and as a fellow dyslexic can wholly relate with the sense of faking your way though social situations. That rising panic when you're asked to man the white board in a meeting or do some basic mental arithmetic. So much easier I think these days. Both in the general familiarity and acceptance of dyslexia and dyscalculia as not just being a byword for stupidity and in the way the world has shrunk - companies are multinational and English is a second language for most so spelling and grammar is almost irrelevant so long as the message is received. And of course - SPELLCHECK!
The great Oliver Reed,thanks for the upload.
I wish I could travel back in time to meet Ollie 😍
Fascinating interview
This is inspiring. It’s so upsetting when people think you’re a dunce, but you really have an undetected condition or illness.
Haha, an absolute legend obviously but he was a great a mimic as well. Really good at accents / impressions. Edit: Also can't believe there was no round of applause for his brilliant perspective on dyslexia.
My sister has serious dyslexia and I enjoyed helping her while understanding her struggle. I wouldve never thought that the most well spoken british actor had this. Definitely a “professional fooler” indeed
Pure class…..legend
He was very underated such a loss missed sorely rip x
He's a legend rip oliver
I've adored Oliver Reed since I first saw him decades ago in a little known film titled "Condorman".
I believe his dyslexia, possibly, stopped him being one of the greatest men of our recent times. A true Warrior.
@incawarrior68, his reputation for drinking ended his movie career way too early. It's a shame, but no director would touch him with a barge pole.
Dyslexia was his superpower and he used it to inspire his acting.
My favourite actor of all time
What a legend.
What a fine gentleman. Learning lines for his movies would have been quite a task. RIP Ollie.
Miss this man so much 😢what a great loss 😢RIP. Oliver 💔
a masterpiece of tv broadcasters triple wow shocked nothing like this these days.😮
What a gorgeous man, he's gone through a lot of hardships in his lifetime nowonder he took to the drinking 💔
@winstoneism they way they treated him over his dyslexia was a bit harsh.
What an elegant man
Reed was clearly quite intelligent and a great actor. I have to say it's nice seeing him here talk about something that he has experience/insight into. It's also refreshing not to see him drunk, intentionally winding people up, forgetting what he's saying mid-sentence etc.
I ve just seen him on aspel video he was very entertaining , interesting.
Legend....no other word ❤️
Great guy sorely missed
When there was a decent presenter/interviews on the late late show
that gay guy is about the creepeest, fake, un-authentic, bigoted, mischievous guy I ever seen. unbelievably creepy
@Harvey Smith I don't have the slightest clue how you can make that connection, as I said NOTHING about gay people anywhere. So your intervention makes no sense whatsoever. The guy's name is 'Gay Byrne'....
Apart from that political correctness and compelled speech leads to 1984, so you better say what you think and don't let anybody keep you from doing so, if you don't want to wake up in a totalitarian society one morning. We're obviously heading down that path evermore fervently crazy and have to stop this madness before it's too late.
Regardless of Ollie's antics and colourful personal life, you can't help but respect him here. His 1979 advice on people getting a lot of help with dyslexia nowadays is just as relevant now as it was given by him in 1979. Bless Ollie, such a misunderstood man and underrated actor and a deeply sensitive man deep down behind his macho persona. You were a class act, Mr Reed. Thank you for bringing your dyslexia story to light. You were a far greater actor than many gave you credit for.
if you ever met him at a bar, you wouldn't be singing his praises... he was quite arrogant and stand-offish.
@@dabneyoffermein595, maybe once he'd had some drink he could be, but many have said that Ollie could be very sensitive when sober. He was just like us all, a very flawed person: good and bad. There was more to Ollie Reed than just his drunkenness and behaviour that accompanied it.
@@alexcarratu5554 he held his alcohol well. it didn't kill him. he could have drank till he was 100. that's how tolerant his body was of consuming alcohol. some people have an iron liver. Oliie was one of those unique individuals. About 1 in 10 alcohics have what's known as the "Iron Liver"
@@dabneyoffermein595 alcohol did kill Ollie Reed. In fact, it was a heart attack, which was triggered by an alcohol binge. The irony of his death is that he hadn't had a drink for months before filming began on his last film. Could he have drunk till he was 100? Who knows? He only made it to his early 60s, so had he not had the heart attack in 1999, who knows? Anyway, there was more to Oliver Reed than his drinking and behaviour that accompanied it. He was a great, talented actor and always the professional on set. I'm sure he could be hard to live with at times, but he could also be very sensitive when not under the influence and loved animals. He was also very intelligent and well-spoken.
@@alexcarratu5554 he was also dyslexic and had a hard time with tests. he was very good with memorization however. but alcohol didn't kill him......ath·er·o·scle·ro·sis is not an indication of alcohol removing him from God's green earth.