Leonard Rossiter
Birthday: 1926-10-21
Place of Birth: Wavertree, Liverpool, England, UK
Biography: Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series Rising Damp (1974–78), and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79). He also had a long and distinguished career in the theatre and gained some notoriety for a series of Cinzano commercials (1978–1983), with Joan Collins.
Movies
2001: A Space Odyssey
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins...
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Barry Lyndon
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...
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Deadlier Than the Male
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do ...
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Rising Damp
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medi...
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental ins...
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Billy Liar
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertake...
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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...
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A Kind of Loving
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she ...
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The Witches
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby...
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King Rat
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a ...
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Oliver!
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from ...
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Deadfall
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau ...
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Water
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existen...
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The Long Ships
Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of ...
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'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
A compilation of the many characters played by Leonard Rossiter....
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Le Petomane
The incredibly true story of the legendary French entertainer Joseph Pujol, who performed impersonat...
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The Year of the Sex Olympics
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effect...
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Hotel Paradiso
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block and he needs a new play, so he takes an opportunity to observe h...
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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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Diamonds for Breakfast
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were over...
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Leonard Rossiter: Comedy Great
A celebration of the actor's life and career, featuring contributions from friends, co-stars and fan...
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas t...
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The Double Agent
In London, a traitor is selling information. In Moscow, a Yorkshire cloth salesman is approached by ...
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Fearless Frank
The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy i...
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Trail of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspecto...
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The Whisperers
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fa...
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Machinegunner
A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself ...
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The Devil's Eggshell
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to ...
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The Wrong Box
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be ma...
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The Moon Over Soho
A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his...
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The Life and Death of King John
The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Ar...
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Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh comes back to life after being the recipient of a magic potion. He finds that his w...
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This Sporting Life
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...
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Dog Ends
A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding a...
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Voyage of the Damned
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....
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The Italian Table
A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress ...
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After the Solo
"The voice will make its effect. And it will, undoubtedly, be very touching. But, tell me: after his...
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The Factory
A factory's workforce is dwindling as divisions between the workers and management widen....
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
46-year-old Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is suffering a midlife crisis and tries to escape his dreary li...
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The Waterloo Bridge Handicap
A commuter's race to catch a rush-hour train, narrated in the style of a horse race....
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After Loch Lomond
Mickey Grant is the life and soul of the many coach trips he has taken. After his latest journey, he...
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The Funny Side of Christmas
Skits from: "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"; "The Les Dawson Show"; "Yes Minister"; "Only Foo...
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