His gangster Hitler in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui turned him into a star but from his earliest roles the actor had an unforgettable expressive force Rossiter interviewed by the Guardian in 1969 ...

Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, ...

Leonard Rossiter has become the latest TV star to be accused of sexual abuse while at the BBC. The Rising Damp actor appeared in many BBC productions in his career, including his iconic role as Reggie ...

Leonard Rossiter was one of Britain's greatest sitcom stars, turning the seedily lascivious Rigsby of Rising Damp and the wistfully eccentric Reggie of The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin into a ...

How many Broadway shows has Leonard Rossiter been in? Leonard Rossiter has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Leonard Rossiter been in? Leonard Rossiter has not appeared in ...

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With its focus on the 1970s career of Leonard Rossiter and its mordant metaphysics of the moist, Sophie-Sleigh Johnson's Code: Damp might just be the most original book yet to emerge from Repeater ...

YOU can’t keep a good man down. Even less a bad one. Which perhaps goes to explain how two of the oddest characters in 1970s television comedy have also been the most lasting. That, plus the fact that ...

Based on the British situation comedy Rising Damp, which aired on ITV from 1974 to 1978. Stingy landlord Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter) manages to scam his lodgers, arts student John Cooper(Christopher ...