Maxwell Reed

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Maxwell Reed (1919-1974) was an Irish-born 1950s matinee idol with the Rank Organisation in Britain. He became the first husband of the young British starlet Joan Collins in the 1950s. Collins claims she divorced him after he allegedly tried to sell her to an Arab sheik in her 1978 autobiography Past Imperfect. Maxwell Reed's career is sadly neglected these days but he was a true star of British noir thrillers. Among his best are The Dark Man, Blackout, Daybreak, Clouded Yellow, Dear Murderer, There Is Another Sun and The Brain Machine. He also appeared to good effect in non-genre films such as Helen of Troy, Sea Devils, The Brothers and The Square Ring (in a role later played on TV by Sean Connery). Maxwell Reed drifted to the US in the late 50s and appeared in a few films and was a guest star on many TV series before dying young from cancer in 1974.

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