I thought Spinetti had also played the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It turns out that he played a different role in a stage version of "Chitty" years later, and he said in an interview:

"But I know that when I mentioned I was going into Chitty [stage version] some people assumed I'd be the child catcher — who is traditionally skinny — rather than the Baron. In fact, quite a few people seem to think I was the child catcher, in the film version. But of course that was Sir Robert Helpmann. I think we must have a similar nose or something!”