Valentino Musetti
Valentino Musetti (born 7 January 1943 in Pontremoli, Tuscany, Italy), often known as just Val Musetti, is an Italian-born English[1] film and TV stuntman and retired motor racing driver. Highlights of his career include finishing third in the Shellsport International Series in 1977.[2] In 1978 he finished fifth in the Aurora F1 Series. In the late 1980s he drove in the FIA World Sportscar Championship. He competed in one round of the 1991 British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park.[3] With a privately entered BMW M3, he finished in thirteenth place. That year he also entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but his team failed to qualify.
He has appeared in many TV programmes since the 1960s, such as The Avengers, Callan, Doctor Who (credited in the TV serial The Crusade), Space: 1999, The Professionals, Minder and Dempsey and Makepeace. He has worked as a stuntman on many TV programmes and films such as The Italian Job, The New Avengers, Superman II, An American Werewolf in London, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Alien 3 and Midsomer Murders among others.
References
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- ↑ http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/1750/ Career at driver database.
- ↑ http://www.btcc.net/html/history_standings.php?season_id=34 Official 1991 BTCC standings.
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- 1943 births
- Living people
- English racing drivers
- British Touring Car Championship drivers
- English male film actors
- English stunt performers
- English male television actors
- Italian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- British Formula Three Championship drivers
- 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
- International Formula 3000 drivers
- World Sportscar Championship drivers
- Male actors of Italian descent
