joeymonsta

Does anyone know anything else about Milton Reid? his grandson no loger seems willing to help with general enquiries. Apparently he was born in 1917 and died c1982 in london of a heart attack - a fact even ian reid cannot seem to verify, one wrestling actors website says he passed away in august 2000, does anyone remember him or know any facts?

Simon Collier

Milton Reid wrestled under the name "Mighty Chang". Besides numerous small film roles, I am sure he starred in the St Bruno pipe tobacco ads in the late 60s early 70s. He was the squat heavy protecting the pipe smokers from the following girls. I also remember- but can find no details-that he ran a company for big, ugly actors. If you needed a thug or heavy or just a mean looking guy, this company would help.

harryfielder

I did get to work with Milton on Satans Claw 1971.
He was the kind of guy that if he said ''Where can I sit'' you would answer'' anywhere you like ''....''Sir''

Now why after so many years do I think he had an Irish accent ???

Aitch,

http://www.turnipnet.com/aitch/aitch/gallery.htm

Simon Collier

I believe that Milton wrestled Giant Haystacks on the latter's first professional match.
Milton comes across as physically very intimidating and always gets bumped off as the evil henchman. Many of his small appearances are difficult to track down.
Two good sites are The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and a section in the BFI site.
Does any one have any copies (or could do a copy) of his appearance in Whoops Baghdad - "Saved from the Harem", and the Des O'Connor show from 1971?

jacobean

he played a guard during the dinner scene in Dr No and appeared again in The Spy who loved me as the henchmen sent with Jaws to kill Bond - he ends up falling off the top of a building. a few pictures are shown here
Far Up! Far Out! Far More - The OHMSS Website

wearysloth

The People That Time Forgot

vladpyre

There's a very interesting new mini-biography for Milton Reid on the internet movie database that tells more of his fascinating life and troubles and refutes the fact that he passed away in 1982 - a very mysterious case indeed

Mr Flash

Hmmm, someone I know has done a bit of research into Milton Reid, and even possesses private letters written by him, his opinion is that Reid was never married or had children, which obviously contradicts what is written about him on the IMDB.

Apogees if this son/grandson are genuine, but there are an awful lot of fantasists out there, especially on the IMDB.

Steve Crook

If this person you know has any proof then they can correct what is on the IMDb. There are a lot of fantasists out there, but they need more than someone's opinion before they'll accept any information

Steve

Mr Flash

Not really any proof, its just from talking to people who worked with him, and Reid’s personal letters, there doesn’t appear to have been any mention of him being married or there being children. It seems that Reid was in poor health at the end of the seventies, so the 1981/1982 date of death is probably accurate.

Reid’s career was badly damaged, if not totally destroyed by appearing in a hardcore loop called “Arabian Knights” in 1979. Although he was acting anonymously, and in a non-sex role, a tabloid wrote up his involvement in the blue film and it appears the bad press resulted in him being ostracized from the film community. There is no record of him acting after 1979.


I talked to one of the porn actors in the film, he didn’t say too much about Milton, but his quotes explain a little about Arabian Knights’ background and how the tabloids found out about the filming.

A chat with “Short Jack Gold”

Mr Flash

Milton in "Arabian Knights"

Janice Healey

I have found an address for Milton Reid using BT Telephone Books he was living in the Shepherd's Bush area from 1960-81 and Mrs Milton Reid from 1949-59 so he might have been living there earlier. If anyone uses Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre in Talgarth Road you could check out the electoral registers for his address and see what his full name was and when his name finally disappears. If someone wants to send me a PM I'll send them his address.

batman

Milton being throttled by Sir Rog in TSWLM ...



.... also from TSWLM



'what a helpful chap'

dogstar

I'm getting worried about you Bats - this is the second strangulation pic you've put up.....

Only a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart....