Leonard Rossiter
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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.
Known for
Credits
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
as Dr. Andrei Smyslov
Barry Lyndon (1975)
as Captain Quin
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
as Superintendant Quinlan
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
as Quinlan
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
as Commander von Bonin
Oliver! (1968)
as Sowerberry
A Kind of Loving (1962)
as Whymper
Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
as Henry Bridgenorth
The Long Ships (1964)
as Persian Soldier Who Falls On Sword (uncredited)
The Wrong Box (1966)
as Vyvyan Alistair Montague
Britannia Hospital (1982)
as Vincent Potter
Rising Damp (1980)
as Rigsby
Deadfall (1968)
as Fillmore
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
as Reginald Perrin (archive footage) (uncredited)
This Sporting Life (1963)
as Phillips, Sports Writer
Water (1985)
as Sir Malcolm Leveridge
The Fanatics (1968)
as Voltaire
Billy Liar (1963)
as Emanuel Shadrack
King Rat (1965)
as McCoy
A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
as Dr. Fisher
Machinegunner (1976)
as Cyril Dugdale
The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter (2000)
as Various (archive footage)
The Funny Side of Christmas (1982)
as Reginald Perrin
The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)
as Co-ordinator Ugo Priest
The Life and Death of King John (1984)
as King John
The Witches (1966)
as Dr. Wallis
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1974)
as The Blind Man
Hotel Paradiso (1966)
as Inspector
The Whisperers (1967)
as Assistance Board Officer
The Waterloo Bridge Handicap (1978)
as Charles Barker
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1983)
as Reginald Perrin
Drums Along The Avon (1967)
as Mr. Marcus
Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
as Inspector Dudley
The Moon Over Soho (1985)
as Max von Konigsberg
The Devil's Eggshell (1966)
as Prime Minister
Otley (1969)
as Johnson
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter (1996)
as Self
The Factory (1981)
as Harry Meadows
Alice in Wonderland (1985)
as King (voice)
Luther (1974)
as Brother Weinand
Leonard Rossiter: Comedy Great (2022)
as Self (Archive footage)
The Italian Table (1970)
as Mr. Jeffs
After the Solo (1975)
as Dawson
Fearless Frank (1978)
Actor
Le Petomane (1979)
as Monsieur Joseph Pujol
The Double Agent (1969)
as Nikolai Krobnevsky
Dog Ends (1984)
as Arthur
After Loch Lomond (1973)
as Mickey Grant