As has been said elsewhere,who cares about how much those guys drank? They were all great. But I happen to thinkReed was a great actor, but I think better candidates for 007 in the same vein - and avoiding personal issues like trouble with drink - would have been
Richard Burton:
Peter O'Toole:
Richard Harris (brother-in-law of Pierce Brosnan's first wife, of course):
Oliver Reed had the'OHMSS Bond factor' more than any of them. Hence my post. Which even I'm bored of now.