Reed would act in three more swashbucklers for Lester, two of them in 1975, reprising Athos for "The Four Musketeers" and traveling forward a few centuries to play Otto von Bismarck in "The Royal Flash". (The final installment of the "Musketeer" series, "The Return of the Musketeers" 1993, went straight to video.) Demonstrating his comic brilliance in the perverse horror spoof "Dr. Heckyl & Mr. Hype" (1980), Reed was touching as the gruesomely deformed podiatrist (and foot fetishist) and had a field day playing a parody of macho leading men as Mr. Hype. He delivered a show-stopping turn as Vulcan in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988) and also portrayed Dolly Hopkins in Peter Chelsom's "Funny Bones" (1995). 1997 was a banner year for Reed who wrapped three films: "Marco Polo" with Jack Palance and Christopher Lee; his fifth film with Michael Winner, "Parting Shots" (alongside Diana Rigg, Ben Kingsley and Bob Hoskins); and Menahem Golan's "Louisa and the Jackpot". He died in May 1999 during the filming of what would be his last motion picture, Ridley Scott's spectacular "Gladiator" (2000).