Oliver Reed is by far my favourite Conte de la Fere. Tom Hardy clearly invokes the spirit of Mr Reed in the latest BBC adaptation, but there can be only one.......
To quote from Wiki...................................................................................................................................
"In The Three Musketeers, he and the other two musketeers, Porthos and Aramis, are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan. He has a mysterious past connecting him with the villain of the novel, Milady de Winter. In one part of the book, he drunkenly implicates himself as the murderer of a sixteen-year-old girl, which disturbs d'Artagnan.
The oldest by some years, Athos is described as noble and handsome but also very secretive, drowning his secret sorrows in drink. He is very protective of d'Artagnan, the youngest, whom he treats as a son"
By the end of the novel, it is revealed that he is the Count de la Fère, who was Milady's husband before she married the Baron de Winter.
Oliver old chap, you nailed that character.
As for the figure, it's not really obviously Athos. I considered making a bit more....well... erm,,,,rounded but as you can see, Athos in the first two films is still quite lithe. I made do with adding an extra feather in the hat (often has a black and white one) and reducing the height of the hat. He's sadly in a in musketeer tabard, which in the films only appears at the bastion and in parades.
I also made the mistake of lengthening the hair, which on reflection wasn't right.
Oh well.
