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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 2, 1933
Died
June 19, 2012
Place of Birth
Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales
Also Known As
- Vittorio Giorgio Andre Spinetti
- Victor Spineti
Victor Spinetti
0.4 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
0.0
Self
The Story of Musicals
2012
9.0
Self - Narrator
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
2008
7.4
New Tricks
2004
0.0
High Hopes
2002
6.0
Happatezoah, Pharaoh's Magician
In the Beginning
2000
5.1
Colonel Dupree
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
5.9
Triar Fuck
Boobs in the Wood
1999
🎬
0.0
Cyril Wise
Julie and the Cadillacs
1999
8.2
Foot (archive footage)
The Beatles Anthology
1995
5.8
Bragas / Major M
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
1995
Credits
The Story of Musicals
as Self
2012
0.0
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
as Self - Narrator
2008
9.0
New Tricks
2004
7.4
High Hopes
2002
0.0
In the Beginning
as Happatezoah, Pharaoh's Magician
2000
6.0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Colonel Dupree
1999
5.1
Boobs in the Wood
as Triar Fuck
1999
5.9
🎬
Julie and the Cadillacs
as Cyril Wise
1999
0.0
The Beatles Anthology
as Foot (archive footage)
1995
8.2
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
as Bragas / Major M
1995
5.8
🎬
Character Building
as (voice)
1995
0.0
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
as Self
1995
6.0
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
1993
0.0
Seriously Seeking Sid
as Self
1993
0.0
🎬
An Actor's Life For Me
1991
6.0
Paul Merton: The Series
1991
4.0
The Princess and the Goblin
as Glump (voice)
1991
6.0
The Krays
as Mr. Lawson
1990
6.1
Romeo.Juliet
as Tybalt (voice)
1990
5.0
The Paradise Club
as Elliott Rossini
1989
5.8
The Further Adventures of SuperTed
1989
6.0
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
as Herman Van Daan
1988
6.5
Under the Cherry Moon
as The Jaded Three #1
1986
5.5
Mistral's Daughter
as Bianchi
1984
5.8
SuperTed
as Texas Pete
1983
6.8
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
as Mr. Tumnus (voice)
1979
6.7
🎬
Take My Wife
1979
5.5
3-2-1
1978
0.0
Hardcore
as Duncan
1977
3.1
Casanova & Co.
as The Prefect
1977
3.5
Voyage of the Damned
as Dr. Erich Strauss
1976
6.0
Emily
as Richard Walker
1976
3.4
🎬
Fred Basset
1976
7.0
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
as Dick Deadeye (voice)
1975
0.0
The Return of the Pink Panther
as Hotel Concierge
1975
6.8
The Great McGonagall
1975
5.2
The Little Prince
as The Historian
1974
6.8
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
as Prof. Ribart
1973
4.6
The 500 Pound Jerk
as Martin Bloore
1973
0.0
Under Milk Wood
as Mog Edwards
1972
5.9
Defeat of the Mafia
as Charles Agostino
1970
0.0
Start the Revolution Without Me
as Duke d'Escargot
1970
5.8
A Promise of Bed
as George
1969
2.0
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
as Critic Sharpnose
1969
4.2
Two in Clover
as Vic Evans
1969
6.5
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
as Captain Giglio
1968
5.4
Magical Mystery Tour
as Army Sergeant
1967
6.5
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
The Taming of the Shrew
as Hortensio
1967
6.9
The Wild Affair
as Quentin
1965
4.8
BBC Play of the Month
as Hatch
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Trivelin
1965
5.0
Help!
as Prof. Foot
1965
6.8
A Hard Day's Night
as T.V. Director
1964
7.3
I Think They Call Him John
as Narrator (voice)
1964
6.7
Becket
as French Tailor (uncredited)
1964
7.1
Sparrows Can't Sing
as Arnold
1963
5.1
The Saint
as Commissionaire
1962
7.4
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Richard the Lionheart
as Pierre
1962
0.0
The Gentle Terror
as Joe
1961
5.0
🎬
Sweet Sixteen
N/A
5.0