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Victor Spinetti
Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales
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, incl…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2012
The Story of Musicals
TV show Self
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2008
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
Movie Self - Narrator
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2004
New Tricks
TV show
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2002
High Hopes
TV show
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2000
In the Beginning
TV show Happatezoah, Pharaoh's Magician
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1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Movie Colonel Dupree
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1999
Boobs in the Wood
Movie Triar Fuck
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1999
Julie and the Cadillacs
Movie Cyril Wise
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1995
The Beatles Anthology
TV show Foot (archive footage)
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1995
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
Movie Bragas / Major M
- 1995
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1995
Character Building
Movie (voice)
- 1993
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1993
Seriously Seeking Sid
Movie Self
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1991
An Actor's Life for Me
TV show Desmond Shaw
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1991
Paul Merton: The Series
TV show
More credits
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1991
Bottom
TV show Maître d'
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1991
The Princess and the Goblin
Movie Glump (voice)
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1990
The Krays
Movie Mr. Lawson
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1990
Romeo.Juliet
Movie Tybalt (voice)
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1989
The Paradise Club
TV show Elliott Rossini
- 1989
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1988
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Movie Herman Van Daan
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1986
Under the Cherry Moon
Movie The Jaded Three #1
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1984
Mistral's Daughter
TV show Bianchi
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1983
SuperTed
TV show Texas Pete
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1980
Time of My Life
TV show Vittorio
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1979
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Movie Mr. Tumnus (voice)
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1979
Take My Wife
TV show
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1978
3-2-1
TV show
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1978
The Sea
Movie Hatch
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1977
Hardcore
Movie Duncan
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1977
Casanova & Co.
Movie The Prefect
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1976
Voyage of the Damned
Movie Dr. Erich Strauss
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1976
Emily
Movie Richard Walker
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1976
Fred Basset
TV show
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1975
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
Movie Dick Deadeye (voice)
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1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
Movie Hotel Concierge
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1975
The Great McGonagall
Movie
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1974
The Little Prince
Movie The Historian
