Richard Beckinsale
Birthday: 1947-07-06
Place of Birth: Carlton, Nottinghamshire, UK
Biography: Richard Beckinsale was an English actor, best known for his roles as Lennie Godber in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge and Alan Moore in the British ITV sitcom Rising Damp. He is the father of actresses Samantha Beckinsale and Kate Beckinsale. He died of a congenital heart defect at the age of just thirty one in 1979.
Movies
Porridge
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Be...
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The Lovers!
Reprising the television series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and ...
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Rentadick
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disab...
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If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be b...
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Comedy Classics: Porridge
An homage to the prison comedy series Porridge, created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. This doc...
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Porridge: The Desperate Hours
Fletcher and Godber are in trouble for brewing liquor in the lead-up to Christmas, but are caught up...
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Porridge: No Way Out
Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape....
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Bloody Kids
Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town....
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Detective Waiting
A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the bi...
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The Floater
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not qu...
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Last Summer
A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. P...
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