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.
Fotos
Películas (41)
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
2008 · Self - Narrator
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999 · Colonel Dupree
Boobs in the Wood
1999 · Triar Fuck
Julie and the Cadillacs
1999 · Cyril Wise
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
1995 · Bragas / Major M
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
1995 · Self
Character Building
1995 · (voice)
Seriously Seeking Sid
1993 · Self
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
1993
The Princess and the Goblin
1991 · Glump (voice)
The Krays
1990 · Mr. Lawson
Romeo.Juliet
1990 · Tybalt (voice), Writer
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1988 · Herman Van Daan
Under the Cherry Moon
1986 · The Jaded Three #1
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
1979 · Mr. Tumnus (voice)
The Sea
1978 · Hatch
Hardcore
1977 · Duncan
Casanova & Company
1977 · The Prefect
Voyage of the Damned
1976 · Dr. Erich Strauss
Emily
1976 · Richard Walker
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
1975 · Dick Deadeye (voice), Additional Writing
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · Hotel Concierge
The Great McGonagall
1975
The Little Prince
1974 · The Historian
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
1973 · Prof. Ribart
The 500 Pound Jerk
1973 · Martin Bloore
Under Milk Wood
1972 · Mog Edwards
Defeat of the Mafia
1970 · Charles Agostino
Start the Revolution Without Me
1970 · Duke d'Escargot
A Promise of Bed
1969 · George
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
1969 · Critic Sharpnose
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968 · Captain Giglio
Magical Mystery Tour
1967 · Army Sergeant
The Taming of the Shrew
1967 · Hortensio
The Wild Affair
1965 · Quentin
Help!
1965 · Foot
A Hard Day's Night
1964 · T.V. Director
I Think They Call Him John
1964 · Narrator (voice)
Becket
1964 · French Tailor (uncredited)
Sparrows Can't Sing
1963 · Arnold
The Gentle Terror
1961 · Joe
Series (24)
The Story of Musicals
2012 · Self
New Tricks
2004
High Hopes
2002
In the Beginning
2000 · Happatezoah, Pharaoh's Magician
The Beatles Anthology
1995 · Foot (archive footage)
An Actor's Life for Me
1991 · Desmond Shaw
Paul Merton: The Series
1991
Bottom
1991 · Maître d'
The Paradise Club
1989 · Elliott Rossini
The Further Adventures of SuperTed
1989
Mistral's Daughter
1984 · Bianchi
Sweet Sixteen
1983 · Ken Green
SuperTed
1983 · Texas Pete
Time of My Life
1980 · Vittorio
Take My Wife
1979
3-2-1
1978
Fred Basset
1976
Two in Clover
1969 · Vic Evans
Omnibus
1967 · Self
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Hatch, Trivelin
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · George
The Saint
1962 · Commissionaire
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
Richard the Lionheart
1962 · Pierre