Bill Sikes won several awards in the early 1960s. Oliver Reed played Sikes in the musical's 1968 film adaptation which also won several awards, with Reed's performance often cited as the best portrayal of Sikes - being labelled as "the sinister core of the film". His songs are removed from the film, making his performance of the character closer to that of the novel rather than the stage version. The famous climax of the 1948 film adaptation is retained and Bill Sikes dies in the same manner of being shot then accidentally hanging himself. In Disney's animated version, "Oliver & Company" (1988),
Norman Sykes fee of £2,000, but during his time there he was dogged by injury and made just three League appearances for them. He played 52 League games for Stockport County in seventeen months between September 1965 and February 1967, before spending the remainder of the 1966–67 season with Doncaster Rovers. Following that he dropped down to non-League football, where he played for Altrincham. After his footballing career Sykes opened a teetotal nightclub in Manchester in 1975, and later lived and worked in Manchester. Norman Sykes Norman A.J. Sykes (16 October 1936 – 9 December 2009) was a professional footballer who played