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Victor Spinetti

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
edited June 2012 in Not Sports Related
Gone

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,643
    wasn't he the director/producer for the Beatles films in the 60's ??????
  • HugoZHackenbush
    HugoZHackenbush Posts: 775
    He was certainly in Magical Mystery Tour
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
    Dick Lester directed the films, Victor acted in Help and Hard Day's Night as well as MMT
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    RIP - he was great in the Return of the Pink Panther too!
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    RIP - I remember seeing him as Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar .
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,628
    Blast from the past. RIP
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,483
    Yes remember him well....quite a character...RIP fella.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    One of those faces that turned up in films and in T.V. sitcoms regularly over the years. Need an excitable Taffy? Send for Victor! Did a lot of stage stuff too but the Beatles films will be his besst remembered work. RIP.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18148017
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP

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  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    Wonderful comic actor, superb in Two in Clover with Sid James, superb in the Beatles movies, superb in pretty much everything he did. A Sad loss. RIP Vic.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,842
    Sad news. Remember him guesting on Danny Baker's show, he was one of those people you could listen to all day.

    I saw him in a play at The Orchard in Dartford, he was popping in and out of character to do a sort of narration of what was going on, a very funny man.
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Great story about his family arriving in UK when he was a lad.
    They had paid the captain of a cargo ship (or similar) to take them to New York.

    He got them to a foggy Cardiff and said "this is New York" off you get !

    Took them several days to realise they had been conned.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    A friend of mine played Oliver opposite him playing Fagin in a nationwide tour of Oliver around twenty odd years ago. Reckons he was the loveliest fella you could imagine. Full of stories and a very helpful man
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    A hugely well respected man within the showbiz industry so I understand. He worked with everyone over the years, expect one of the biggest memorial services ever seen... RIP.

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