Victor Spinetti
Vittorio Giorgio Andrea "Victor" Spinetti (born September 2, 1929 in Cwm , Wales , † June 18, 2012 in Monmouth , Wales) was a British film and theater actor . The musician Henry Spinetti was his brother.
Life
He received his acting training from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff . He then began to work as a stage actor and worked regularly with the theater director Joan Littlewood , among others . In 1965, he was named on Broadway for appearing as the pesky drill sergeant in the Littlewood musical Oh! What a Lovely War won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical . From the 1970s, he was next to the theater work as a musical - director active. In his later career he appeared several times in plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company .
Spinetti became a film actor in the 1960s through his comical supporting roles in the three Beatles films Yeah Yeah Yeah , Hi-Hi-Hilfe! and Magical Mystery Tour . By 2006 he worked on a total of over 80 film and television productions.
In 2006 he published Up Front ...: His Strictly Confidential Autobiography, his autobiography. One of his last projects before his death was singing the Beatles song Obladi Oblada for the international music project The Beatles Complete On Ukulele . Spinetti died in June 2012 at the age of 82 from complications from cancer .
Filmography (selection)
- 1958: Behind the Mask (Behind the Mask)
- 1964: Yeah Yeah Yeah (A Hard Day's Night)
- 1965: Hi-Hi help! (Help!)
- 1967: The Taming of the Shrew (The Taming of the Shrew)
- 1967: Magical Mystery Tour
- 1970: Mafia Chess (Scacco alla mafia)
- 1972: Under Milk Wood (Under Milk Wood)
- 1974: The Little Prince (The Little Prince)
- 1975: The Return of the Pink Panther (The Return of the Pink Panther)
- 1976: Casanova & Co.
- 1979: Der König von Narnia (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
- 1986: Under the Cherry Moon
- 1988: My Life with Anne Frank (The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank)
- 1991: Princess Aline and the Groblins (The Princess and the Goblin)
- 2000: In the beginning (In the Beginning)
Web links
- Victor Spinetti in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Victor Spinetti in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spinetti, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spinetti, Vittorio Giorgio Andrea (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British singer and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cwm , Wales, United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 2012 |
| Place of death | Monmouth , Wales, United Kingdom |