An illicit boy of the outstanding actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress May Pinney Reed, Carol Reed was natural within Putney, London, and enlightened at a King's School, Canterbury. Reed served in the British Army during the Second World War, giving him numbers of lives which appeared around his late films. He start an acting career spell however inside his teens, however before long went into a role of producer/director, & was responsible Kipps (1941), Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949) and Our Man in Havana (1959), becoming a prime litterateur of film versions of the novels of Graham Greene.

From either 1943 until 1947, he was married to the elegant British film star Diana Wynyard (1943 to 1947). When their divorcement, he married, within 1948, the actress Penelope Dudley Ward, a older girl of Freda Dudley Ward, world health organization experienced been a mistress of the Prince of Wales, late Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and Duke of Windsor. It experienced of these boy, Max, & the nephew was late actor Oliver Reed. His stepdaughter, Miss Ward's girl, Tracy Reed, acted within many films, notably when a lone woman in Dr. Strangelove.

Inside 1953 he became a foremost British director to become knighted for his craft.

Carol Reed died from either the heart attack in April 25 1976 at his home in Chelsea, London at the age of 69.