78
Age
40
Movies
22
TV Shows
7.1
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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".
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Died at
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Movies
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TV Shows
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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".
1965
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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
September 2, 1933
Died
June 19, 2012
Birthplace
Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales
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Becket
1964
Character Building
1995
Voyage of the Damned
1976
Under Milk Wood
1972
Sparrows Can't Sing
1963
Romeo.Juliet
1990
Defeat of the Mafia
1970
The Krays
1990
Emily
1976
Help!
1965
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
A Hard Day's Night
1964
The Taming of the Shrew
1967
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
1993
The Little Prince
1974
Hardcore
1977
Under the Cherry Moon
1986
The Princess and the Goblin
1991
Magical Mystery Tour
1967
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
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BBC Play of the Month
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The Paradise Club
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SuperTed
1983
Mistral's Daughter
1984
3-2-1
1978
Richard the Lionheart
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In the Beginning
2000
The Further Adventures of SuperTed
1989
High Hopes
2002
The Story of Musicals
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Two in Clover
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Paul Merton: The Series
1991
An Actor's Life For Me
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Fred Basset
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