Victor Spinetti
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1933-09-02
Deathday 2012-06-19 (78 years old)
Place of Birth Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales
Also Known As Vittorio Giorgio Andre Spinetti
Victor Spinetti
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
Actor
as Self - Narrator
as Happatezoah, Pharaoh's Magician
as Colonel Dupree
as Triar Fuck (as Victor Spineti)
as Cyril Wise
as Bragas / Major M
as Self
as Glump
as Mr. Lawson
as Tybalt (voice)
as Elliott Rossini
as Herman Van Daan
as The Jaded Three #1
as Bianchi
as Texas Pete
as Mr. Tumnus (voice)
as Duncan
as The Prefect
as Dr. Erich Strauss
as Richard Walker
as Dick Deadeye (voice)
as Hotel Concierge
as The Historian
as Prof. Ribart
as Martin Bloore
as Mog Edwards
as Charles Agostino
as Duke d'Escargot
as George
as Captain Giglio
as Army Sergeant
as Hortensio
as Quentin
as Prof. Foot
as Trivelin
as T.V. Director
as Narrator (voice)
as French Tailor (uncredited)
as Arnold
as Commissionaire
as Self
as Joe
Writer
as Writer
as Writer