Victor Spinetti
Victor Sinetti (born Vittorio Giorgio Andre Spinetti) was a Welsh comedy actor, author and poet. He appeared in dozens of films and stage plays throughout his 50-year career, including the three 1960s Beatles films "A Hard Day's Night", "Help!" and "Magical Mystery Tour". Born in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Wales, Spinetti was educated at Monmouth School and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, of which he became a Fellow. After various menial jobs, Spinetti pursued a stage career and was closely associated with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in London, England. Among the productions were "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be" and "Oh! What a Lovely War" (1963), which transferred to New York City and for which he won a Tony Award. Spinetti's film career developed simultaneously; his dozens of film appearances would include Zeffirelli's "The Taming of the Shrew", "Under Milk Wood", "The Return of the Pink Panther" and "Under the Cherry Moon". During his later career, Spinetti acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in such roles as Lord Foppington in "The Relapse" and the Archbishop in "Richard III", at Stratford-upon-Avon; and, in 1990, he appeared in "The Krays". In 2008 he appeared in a one-man show, "A Very Private Diary", which toured the UK as "A Very Private Diary ... Revisited!", recounting his life story. Spinetti was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011 and died of the disease in June 2012.
Born: 02 September 1933 • Died: 19 June 2012
Played In
The Story of Musicals
Self
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
Self - Narrator
New Tricks
High Hopes
In the Beginning
Happatezoah, Pharaoh's Magician
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Colonel Dupree
Boobs in the Wood
Triar Fuck
Julie and the Cadillacs
Cyril Wise
The Beatles Anthology
Foot (archive footage)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
Bragas / Major M
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Self
Character Building
(voice)
Seriously Seeking Sid
Self
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
An Actor's Life for Me
Desmond Shaw
Paul Merton: The Series
Bottom
Maître d'
The Princess and the Goblin
Glump (voice)
The Krays
Mr. Lawson
Romeo.Juliet
Tybalt (voice)
The Paradise Club
Elliott Rossini
The Further Adventures of SuperTed
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Herman Van Daan
Under the Cherry Moon
The Jaded Three #1
Mistral's Daughter
Bianchi
SuperTed
Texas Pete
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Mr. Tumnus (voice)
Take My Wife
3-2-1
Hardcore
Duncan
Casanova & Co.
The Prefect
Voyage of the Damned
Dr. Erich Strauss
Emily
Richard Walker
Fred Basset
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
Dick Deadeye (voice)
The Return of the Pink Panther
Hotel Concierge
The Great McGonagall
The Little Prince
The Historian
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
Prof. Ribart
The 500 Pound Jerk
Martin Bloore
Under Milk Wood
Mog Edwards
Defeat of the Mafia
Charles Agostino
Start the Revolution Without Me
Duke d'Escargot
A Promise of Bed
George
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Critic Sharpnose
Two in Clover
Vic Evans
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Captain Giglio
Magical Mystery Tour
Army Sergeant
Omnibus
Self
The Taming of the Shrew
Hortensio
The Wild Affair
Quentin
BBC Play of the Month
Hatch
BBC Play of the Month
Trivelin
Thirty-Minute Theatre
George
Help!
Prof. Foot
A Hard Day's Night
T.V. Director
I Think They Call Him John
Narrator (voice)
Becket
French Tailor (uncredited)
Sparrows Can't Sing
Arnold
The Saint
Commissionaire
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Richard the Lionheart
Pierre
The Gentle Terror
Joe
Sweet Sixteen