Adolfo Pirelli (a.k.a Daniel O' Higgins or Davy Collins) is a minor character in the 2007 feature film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He is an Irish barber who had pretended to be an Italian man and made his invention Pirelli's Miracle Elixir which was claimed to stimulate the growth of hair. He is Sweeney Todd's first victim after he threatens to reveal his true identity.
He is portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen.
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When Sweeney Todd sniffed the mixture, he denounces the Elixir as "an arrant fraud" concocted of "piss and ink". He was killed by Todd when he beats him to death with a kettle and slit's his throat after he reveals his true identity.