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Roy Kinnear

Highest Rated: 100% On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)

Birthday: Jan 8, 1934

Birthplace: Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK

Portly, sometimes mustached, stage-trained British character actor of film and TV of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Kinnear first gained notoriety on British TV as a regular on the groundbreaking weekly topical satire series, "That Was the Week That Was" in the early 60s. With his large, round face and often bulging eyes, Kinnear sweated and flustered his way through many a frantic comedy, as well as dramas and period fare, playing characters both sympathetic and not. Children of a certain age may best recall him in "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (1971) as Mr. Salt, the pompous, indulgent father of the bratty Veruca Salt. His non-comedy credits include "The Hill" (1965), director Sidney Lumet's hard-hitting military prison drama starring Sean Connery, and the Hammer horror entry, "Taste the Blood of Dracula" (1969).

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Highest rated movies

100% 75% On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
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92% 87% Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Watchlist
89% 77% The Three Musketeers
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86% 86% Help!
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83% 56% Juggernaut
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81% 86% Watership Down
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80% 55% Sparrows Can't Sing
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77% 62% Hammett
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77% 74% The Four Musketeers
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75% 92% The Hill
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
60% 34% The Return of the Musketeers Planchet (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Man for All Seasons The Common Man (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diamond's Edge Jack Splendide (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Unusual Ground Floor Conversion Previous Tenant (Character) - 1987
27% 51% Pirates Dutch (Character) $1.6M 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Squaring the Circle Kania (Character) - 1984
77% 62% Hammett English Eddie Hagedorn (Character) - 1982
40% 57% Hawk, the Slayer Innkeeper (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Omega Connection Bidley (Character) - 1979
0% 42% The Hound of the Baskervilles Selden the Axe Murderer (Character) - 1978
81% 86% Watership Down Pipkin (Voice) - 1978
50% 63% The Last Remake of Beau Geste Boldini (Character) - 1977
60% 57% Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo Quincey (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Not Now, Comrade Hoskins (Character) - 1976
56% 57% The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother Moriarty's Assistant (Character) - 1975
77% 74% The Four Musketeers Planchet (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 68% One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing Superintendent Grubbs (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 40% Eskimo Nell Benny U. Murdoch (Character) - 1975
83% 56% Juggernaut Social Director Curtain (Character) - 1974
89% 77% The Three Musketeers Planchet (Character) - 1973
50% 24% The Pied Piper Burgermeister Poppendick (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alf Garnett Saga Wally (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 14% Madame Sin Holidaymaker (Character) - 1971
92% 87% Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Mr. Henry Salt (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Firechasers Roscoe (Character) - 1970
100% 75% On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Prince Regent (Character) - 1970
54% 54% Taste the Blood of Dracula Weller (Character) - 1970
74% 84% Scrooge Gentleman of Charity No. 2 (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Egghead's Robot Park Keeper (Character) - 1970
44% 60% How I Won the War Clapper (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 64% The Deadly Affair Adam Scarr (Character) - 1966
75% 92% The Hill Monty Bartlett (Character) - 1965
86% 86% Help! Algernon (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet French Dressing Henry Liggott (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 71% Heavens Above! Fred Smith (Character) - 1963
80% 55% Sparrows Can't Sing Fred Gooding (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Small World of Sammy Lee Lucky Dave (Character) - 1963

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ray Bradbury Theater Funeral Director (Character) 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ripping Yarns Unknown (Character) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Man About the House Jerry (Character) 1974-1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sykes Unknown (Character) 1972
No Score Yet 88% The Avengers Unknown (Guest Star) 1964-1965 1967 1969