Spinetti described the play as being "about the growing up of any of us; the things that helped us to be more aware". His many television appearances on British TV, include Take My Wife in which he played a London-based booking agent and schemer who was forever promising his comedian client that fame was just around the corner, and the sitcom An Actor's Life For Me. Paul McCartney plays landmark concert in Israel, US album release: Walls And Bridges by John Lennon, Mixing: Happiness Is A Warm Gun, What’s The New Mary Jane, Glass Onion, I Will, Name The Beatles (as a group - not solo) song that goes with this picture, The "Incredibly Impossible to Derail This Thread" thread. And the most important line in it is really – the influences about us, the things that make us what we are, make you what you are now, or make us what we were, the things that we half heard, you know, as kids. At the request of the Beatles, he reprised his drill sergeant character for the latter film. Later he voiced arch villain Texas Pete in the popular S4C animated TV series SuperTed (1982–84) and narrated several Fireman Sam audiobooks. Victor Spinetti became known to the sixties generation through his stand-out roles in three Beatles' films. Vittorio Giorgio Andre "Victor" Spinetti (2 September 1929 – 19 June 2012)[1][2] was a Welsh actor, author, poet, and raconteur. Spinetti appeared in the promotional video for the 1978 Wings song London Town. Don't miss our sister site, the Bowie Bible, now live! Vittorio Giorgio Andre Spinetti was born on 2 September 1929[1] in Cwm, of Welsh and Italian descent from a grandfather who was said to have 'walked' from Italy to Wales to work as a coal miner, just to earn enough money to buy a plough. He appeared on Broadway in The Hostage and The Philanthropist, and also acted in 1995 with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in such roles as Lord Foppington in The Relapse and the Archbishop in Richard III, at Stratford-upon-Avon, although this was not a happy experience for him.[7]. TRIBUTES TO LARGER-THAN-LIFE STAR SPINETTI WHO'S DIED AT 82. And as he did, he later recalled, screaming erupted from a claque of Beatles fans in the balcony. Vittorio Giorgio Andre "Victor" Spinetti (2 September 1929 – 19 June 2012) was a Welsh actor, author, poet, and raconteur. Spinetti appeared in around 30 films, including The Gentle Terror (1961), Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), The Wild Affair (1964), Becket (1964), Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew (1967), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968), Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? Spinetti gained international fame during the 1960s due to his association with the Beatles. with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson. Spinetti and Lennon appeared together in June 1968 on BBC2's Release. Sir Paul McCartney rang up Victor Spinetti last May, at his house in Brighton, a short drive from London on England's south coast. He was once described by Paul McCartney as “the man who makes clouds disappear”. "[5], Paul McCartney paid tribute to Spinetti on his website: "Victor was a fine man, a great pal and a fantastic actor and someone I am proud to have known for many years. Spinetti's last on-screen appearance was in the DVD release of the independent film Beatles Stories by US musician Seth Swirsky, issued to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first recording sessions at Abbey Road. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. Victor Spinetti, who was an established British film star in 1963 when he agreed to make a movie with a pop group called the Beatles and who became famous ever after as … and Magical Mystery Tour. Mr. Spinetti said he improvised a solution: he promised the fans that if they behaved, they could sit in the front rows after the show, “and we’ll do a 10-minute semester on the Beatles, O.K.?”. From 1999 to 2002 Victor played Max, the 'man of a thousand faces', in the popular Children's TV programme Harry and the Wrinklies, which also starred Nick Robinson in the title role. Whether because of his long-limbed physical comedy style, his command of the idiom of irony or George Harrison’s mother’s fancy, Mr. Spinetti was invited by the Beatles to be in all their movies. “A Hard Day’s Night” had just opened in movie theaters in New York in 1964 when “Oh What a Lovely War” had its Broadway premiere. Love David Bowie? The Beatles Bible uses cookies to bring you a better browsing experience. I mean 'what's going on?'" In July 2010 his performance of The Beatles’ ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ at the Festival Theatre in Malvern was recorded and later made available on The Beatles Complete on Ukulele podcast. [citation needed] Preston FM scheduled a tribute broadcast, for 22 June, of a previously unaired in-depth interview with Spinetti, recorded when he visited Blackpool in July 2010, in Paul and Lucy Breeze's Best Kept Secrets in Conversation.[16]. The acclaimed Amazon bestsellerRiding So High – The Beatles and Drugs By the creator of the Beatles Bible.Buy now:Paperback | Ebook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★. Vittorio Georgio Andrea Spinetti was born in Wales on Sept. 2, 1929, one of six children of a Welsh mother and an Italian immigrant father. Mr. Spinetti met his lifelong partner, Graham Curnow, when they were both students at the Royal Welsh College.
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