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3 unusual facts about Carol Reed


Alfio Bruno Tempera

Started in the early sixties with films such as It Started in Naples by Melville Shavelson with Clark Gable, and The Agony and the Ecstasy by Carol Reed, with Charlton Heston.

Brian Croucher

One of his earliest film roles was in the Carol Reed's film musical of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, he played one of the London Bridge bargemen - a small speaking part, which was non-credited.

King's Road

No. 213 has a blue plaque to film director Sir Carol Reed, who lived there from 1948 until his death in 1978.


Branko Bauer

The film was loosely based on Carol Reed's thriller Odd Man Out, and its last scene - which inspired the title of the film - was inspired by Disney's film Bambi.

Crown Liquor Saloon

A recognisable landmark of Belfast, the pub has featured as a location in numerous film and television productions, such as David Caffrey's Divorcing Jack (1998) and as far back as Carol Reed's 1947 film Odd Man Out.

Outcast of the Islands

Outcast of the Islands is a 1951 film directed by Carol Reed based on Joseph Conrad's novel An Outcast of the Islands.


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Bobby Henrey

Studio head of London Films Alexander Korda passed on the photograph to director Carol Reed, who thought it exactly matched his vision of the character, Phillipe, even though the photo had actually been taken in 1942 and showed Henrey when he was three years old.