Antonius Proximo

Antonius Proximo was a wealthy slave owner who owned Ex-Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, Numidian tribesman Juba, the Barbarian from Germania, Hagen, and a lot of other Gladiators from across the world. He himself was a Gladiator who was freed by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Quoted in:

Gladiator (2000)

Actor:

Oliver Reed

Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but we can decide how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered as men.

Win the crowd, and you'll win your freedom.

Marcus Aurelius is dead, Maximus. We mortals are but shadows and dust.

Gladiator (2000)

I am Proximo. I shall be closer to you for the next few days, which will be the last of your miserable lives, than that bitch of a mother that brought you screaming into this world. I did not pay good money for you for your company. I paid it so that I could profit from your death. And as your mother was there at your beginning, so I shall be there at your end. And when you die, and die you shall, your transition shall be to the sound of... Gladiators, I salute you.

Gladiator (2000)

He knows too well how to manipulate the mob.

Gladiator (2000)