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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.45 |
Birthday | 1933-09-02 |
Place of Birth | Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales |
Also Known As | Vittorio Giorgio Andre Spinetti, |
1964
A Hard Day's Night
7.37/649
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1990
The Krays
6.021/97
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The Krays
1967
The Taming of the Shrew
6.912/164
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptis...
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1967
Magical Mystery Tour
6.543/152
Originally produced for television, this short film as an off-the-wall road movie starring the Beatles and a couple dozen friends on a psychedelic bus...
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Magical Mystery Tour
1991
The Princess and the Goblin
5.846/39
The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic power to fight off goblins and save the kingdom.
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The Princess and the Goblin
1965
Help!
6.848/305
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off)....
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Help!
1974
The Little Prince
6.7/114
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The Little Prince
1972
Under Milk Wood
6.2/21
The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characte...
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Under Milk Wood
1970
Start the Revolution Without Me
5.8/36
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, C...
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Start the Revolution Without Me
1999
Boobs in the Wood
5.9/7
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1968
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
5.7/13
A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
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1976
Emily
4.9/4
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Emily
1995
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
6/1
Thirty years after A Hard Day's Night, its producer, director, writer and others describe its making. United Artists Records came to Walter Shenson, a...
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I Think They Call Him John
6.7/8
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1965
The Wild Affair
5.4/5
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1970
Defeat of the Mafia
0/0
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1961
The Gentle Terror
5/1
The predictably boring life of a meek bookkeeper until fate transforms him into an underworld terror.
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1988
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
5.6/4
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for tran...
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The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
1999
Julie and the Cadillacs
0/0
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Julie and the Cadillacs
1977
Hardcore
3.9/4
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Hardcore
1975
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done
0/0
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1969
A Promise of Bed
2.2/4
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A Promise of Bed
1973
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
4.6/18
Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!
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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
1975
The Return of the Pink Panther
6.794/578
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The...
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The Return of the Pink Panther
1977
Casanova & Co.
3.7/6
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Casanova & Co.
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
4.921/19
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1995
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
5.9/17
In the twelfth film in the series, in 1917, Indiana Jones transfers from the Belgian army to the French intelligence service, where his first assignme...
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1990
Romeo.Juliet
0/0
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been...
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1986
Under the Cherry Moon
5.76/50
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1976
Voyage of the Damned
5.937/63
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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1963
Sparrows Can't Sing
5.167/21
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1973
The 500 Pound Jerk
0/0
An advertising man's dream of turning a huge hillbilly into an Olympic weightlifting champion is set back when the hillbilly falls for a Russian gymna...
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1979
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
6.6/44
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1964
Becket
7.191/173
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pio...
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1975
The Great McGonagall
5.2/4
In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who f...
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1993
Seriously Seeking Sid
0/0
A study of the life and career of the actor Sid James, best known for the long-running Carry On series of bawdy British film comedies.
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1993
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
0/0
Tommy Cooper, the hapless magician who was in a league of his own, is joined here by a star-studded selection of guests in previously unseen extracts...
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2008
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
9/2
This nostalgic retrospective with colleagues and friends of the Beatles fondly recalls Paul McCartney's simple plan for the "Magical Mystery Tour" mov...
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