Roy Mitchell Kinnear was an English character actor and comedian.
13 Facts About Roy Kinnear
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Roy Kinnear reprised the role of Planchet in the 1974 and 1989 sequels, and died following an accident during filming of the latter.
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Roy Kinnear played Private Monty Bartlett in The Hill, and cruise director Curtain in Juggernaut.
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Roy Kinnear's father was an international in both rugby union and rugby league, having played for Scotland and Great Britain.
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Roy Kinnear scored 81 tries in 184 games for Wigan; he collapsed and died while playing rugby union with the RAF in 1942, at the age of 38.
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Roy Kinnear's acting career began in 1955, playing Albert in The Young in Heart, at the repertory theatre, Newquay.
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Roy Kinnear appeared with Christopher Lee in the Hammer horror film Taste the Blood of Dracula.
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Roy Kinnear guest-starred in The Goodies' episode "Rome Antics" as the Roman Emperor, and in the BBC's Ripping Yarns episode "Escape From Stalag Luft 112B" as the fearsome German Sergeant Vogel.
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Roy Kinnear narrated and provided voices for the stop-motion children's television show Bertha.
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Roy Kinnear narrated Towser and Bertha, voiced Pipkin in the 1978 film Watership Down and voiced Texas Pete's henchman Bulk in SuperTed.
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Roy Kinnear's final completed roles were in A Man for All Seasons a made-for-television film directed by and starring Charlton Heston, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave, as a patient in the BBC One hospital drama Casualty, and a voice role as Mump in The Princess and the Goblin, which was released in 1991, three years after his sudden death in September 1988.
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On 19 September 1988, Roy Kinnear fell from a horse during the making of The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain, and sustained a broken pelvis and internal bleeding.
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Roy Kinnear was taken to a hospital in Madrid, but died the next day from a heart attack, brought on by his injuries.