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Kinnear Roy
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8 January 1934 - 20 September 1988
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Roy Mitchell Kinnear was born on 8 January 1934 in Wigan, Lancashire. He received his primary education in Edinburgh. At the age of 17 he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. However, he was not destined to complete his acting education - according to the then British law on universal military service, Kinnear went to serve in the army. First appearing on stage in 1955 in Newquay, Kinnear played for several years in the repertory theaters of Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh and Perth,
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Roy Mitchell Kinnear was born on 8 January 1934 in Wigan, Lancashire. He received his primary education in Edinburgh. At the age of 17 he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. However, he was not destined to complete his acting education - according to the then British law on universal military service, Kinnear went to serve in the army. First appearing on stage in 1955 in Newquay, Kinnear played for several years in the repertory theaters of Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh and Perth, until in 1959 he joined the troupe of the theater-workshop Joan Littlewood in London. Fat, short stature, bald in his youth, Kinnear was ideal for performing comedy roles. He was best known for his collaboration with director Richard Lester. In the sixties, Kinnear played a number of small roles in his films Help! (1965, with the participation of the Beatles), Funny Case that Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), How I Won the War (1967) and Living Room (1969). Some of the roles in these films were specifically written for him. In the next decade, Kinnear’s collaboration with Lester continued: the actor played Planche in the comedies “The Three Musketeers” (1973), “The Four Musketeers” (1975), and appeared in two more Lester films “Juggernaut” (1974) and “The Flash Royal” (1975).
The actor also starred in several series of the popular in the sixties of the series “The Avengers”, the military drama of the American director Sidney Lumet “Hill” (1965), the fantastic tale “Wodash” (1975), and the film “The Clever Brother” by Sherauddy” (1975). His funny and awkward characters invariably attracted the sympathy of the audience, whether it was the gladiator instructor in Funny Case on the Way to the Forum or the servant of D'Artagnan Planchet in The Three Musketeers. In September 1988, in Spain, during the filming of the next film by Richard Lester “The Return of the Musketeers”, as a result of a fall from a horse, Kinnear broke his pelvis bones and soon died of a heart attack.