Cooley Word is it was all an act.
What, he wasn't really an alkie? Or his acting career was an act? I stumbled into the bar in Malta where he died that's mentioned at the end of that video above, me and a mate were looking for the Joshua-Klitzko fight - wall to wall Ollie paraphernalia, the tale told about the night of his death is pretty dire, listed what he'd drunk that night, pretty sad. Good boozer though, very very old, like summat in the Shambles, about to fall down.