Anecdotes

Pint-sized comedy actor, the son of an Italian father and an Irish mother. Trained for acting at the Central School for Speech and Drama. Because of his looks was often typecast as Italians. Came to prominence on television as the inept, leather-coated Gestapo officer Engelbert von Smallhausen in Allô allô (1982).

John Louis Mansi died at his home in the village of Berwick, East Sussex. He had moved there from East Anglia in 1998. His funeral took place on 18 August 2010 in Bexhill-on-Sea. At the time of his death, newspapers confused his place of death with the location of his funeral.