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.

Фільмографія

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

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (6)

• The Story of Musicals — Self
• 2008The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories — Self - Narrator
• 1995You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' — Self
• 1993Seriously Seeking Sid — Self
• Omnibus — Self
• Шоу Мерва Ґріффіна — Self