Victor Spinetti
Acting • Born 1933-09-02 – Died 2012-06-19
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.
Filmography
62 credits
A Hard Day's Night
Movie • 1964
T.V. Director
The Krays
Movie • 1990
Mr. Lawson
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie • 1967
Hortensio
The Great McGonagall
Movie • 1975
Magical Mystery Tour
Movie • 1967
Army Sergeant
The Princess and the Goblin
Movie • 1991
Glump (voice)
Help!
Movie • 1965
Prof. Foot
Under Milk Wood
Movie • 1972
Mog Edwards
The Little Prince
Movie • 1974
The Historian
Start the Revolution Without Me
Movie • 1970
Duke d'Escargot
Boobs in the Wood
Movie • 1999
Triar Fuck
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Movie • 1968
Captain Giglio
Hardcore
Movie • 1977
Duncan
Emily
Movie • 1976
Richard Walker
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Movie • 1995
Self
I Think They Call Him John
Movie • 1964
Narrator (voice)
The Wild Affair
Movie • 1965
Quentin
Defeat of the Mafia
Movie • 1970
Charles Agostino
Seriously Seeking Sid
Movie • 1993
Self
The Gentle Terror
Movie • 1961
Joe
Becket
Movie • 1964
French Tailor (uncredited)
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Movie • 1988
Herman Van Daan
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
Movie • 1993
Julie and the Cadillacs
Movie • 1999
Cyril Wise
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
Movie • 2008
Self - Narrator
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
Movie • 1975
Dick Deadeye (voice)
A Promise of Bed
Movie • 1969
George
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
Movie • 1973
Prof. Ribart
The Return of the Pink Panther
Movie • 1975
Hotel Concierge
Casanova & Co.
Movie • 1977
The Prefect
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
Movie • 1995
Bragas / Major M
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Movie • 1999
Colonel Dupree
Romeo.Juliet
Movie • 1990
Tybalt (voice)
Under the Cherry Moon
Movie • 1986
The Jaded Three #1
Voyage of the Damned
Movie • 1976
Dr. Erich Strauss
Sparrows Can't Sing
Movie • 1963
Arnold
The 500 Pound Jerk
Movie • 1973
Martin Bloore
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Movie • 1979
Mr. Tumnus (voice)
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Movie • 1969
Critic Sharpnose
Character Building
Movie • 1995
(voice)
SuperTed
TV • 1983
Texas Pete
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
3-2-1
TV • 1978
An Actor's Life For Me
TV • 1991
High Hopes
TV • 2002
Sweet Sixteen
TV
The Saint
TV • 1962
Commissionaire
Two in Clover
TV • 1969
Vic Evans
The Further Adventures of SuperTed
TV • 1989
New Tricks
TV • 2004
Take My Wife
TV • 1979
Fred Basset
TV • 1976
Mistral's Daughter
TV • 1984
Bianchi
Paul Merton: The Series
TV • 1991
In the Beginning
TV • 2000
Happatezoah, Pharaoh's Magician
The Paradise Club
TV • 1989
Elliott Rossini
The Beatles Anthology
TV • 1995
Foot (archive footage)
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Hatch
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Trivelin
Richard the Lionheart
TV • 1962
Pierre
The Story of Musicals
TV • 2012
Self