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