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Obit: Welsh TV, film and stage comic actor Victor Spinetti, 82

Ultimajock

Ultimajock

...qualifies here for playing the neurotic TV variety show director in A Hard Day's Night and the gibberish-spouting military recruiter in Magical Mystery Tour. Spinetti also voiced the villainous Texas Pete in the British animated series SuperTed. His character in Help! was the subject of my all-time favourite movie gag line: Roy Kinnear turns to John Lennon and says, "He's out to rule the world - if he can get a government grant." ;D ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18148017
 
He was just as great a foil for the Beatles as Margaret Dumont was for the Marx Bros. and Jimmy Finlayson was for Laurel & Hardy.

Another great under appreciated talent gone.

:'( Cheerio.
 
RicoGregg said:
He was just as great a foil for the Beatles as Margaret Dumont was for the Marx Bros. and Jimmy Finlayson was for Laurel & Hardy.

Another great under appreciated talent gone.

:'( Cheerio.
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Actually, it kind of underscores how good a comedy team The Beatles were, or at least how good their directors were in getting them to seem so...though on their own in press conferences and their fan-club Christmas records, they were still often effortlessly funny. Their final B-side, "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)", sounds closer to a pastiche of Monty Python and The Goons than it sounds like The Beatles (or, alternately, it sounds like what would have happened Python and The Goons had had Lennon/McCartney instead of Idle/Innes and Spike Milligan, respectively, as their songwriters...)

But I digress (wildly.) Godspeed, Victor Spinetti.
 
Thanks, Ultimajock, for saving me the trouble of Yahooing Spinetti's obit and putting it on the 50's/60's board. :)

RIP, Victor.

ixnay
 
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