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Jan 12, 2020 · In this edition of Comedy Chronicles, Graham McCann looks at the remarkable career of actor Leonard Rossiter, and one fateful meeting that lost him a part in an iconic BBC sitcom.
Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor. He had a long career in the theatre but achieved his highest profile for his television comedy roles starring as Rupert Rigsby in the ITV series Rising Damp from 1974 to 1978, and Reginald Perrin in the BBC's The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979.
Oct 23, 2013 · Most famously in the paradoxical lonely yet misanthropic role of Rigsby in Rising Damp, but I think his greatest role was as Reginald Perrin. I don’t believe anyone could possibly ever convey mental anguish at the banality of existence better than Leonard Rossiter.
Oct 4, 2024 · Yet it might have followed: at the time of his death, he was lined up to play the role eventually taken by Tim Curry in Clue. Born in 1926, Rossiter grew up in the suburbs of Liverpool, the son of a barber-cum-bookie whose sole showbiz connection was sometimes playing golf with George Formby.
This 90-minute documentary includes a never-before-seen interview with Rossiter himself and brings new perspectives on one of Britain's best-loved actors, from his upbringing in Liverpool to his remarkable, late-blossoming TV career.
Oct 29, 2022 · Leonard Rossiter is probably best known as seedy bedsit landlord Mr Rigsby in 1970s hit Rising Damp, but as this clips-and-quotes show attests, his career covered serious drama as well as comedy.
Oct 4, 2024 · Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, singular and demanding man ‘Mr Rossiter says he is good at madmen’: Leonard Rossiter interviewed by the Guardian in 1969A few years ago, the actor Robert Duvall was being interviewed for this paper when, apropos of nothing, he cited Leonard Rossiter as the finest performer he’d ever seen.
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