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Leonard Rossiter

Leonard Rossiter

Birthday: 1926-10-21 | Place of Birth: Wavertree, Liverpool, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leonard Rossiter, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Leonard Rossiter: Comedy Great

as    Self (Archive footage)

1986
Water

as    Sir Malcolm Leveridge

1985
Alice in Wonderland

as    King of Hearts

1985
The Moon Over Soho

as    Max von Konigsberg

1984
The Life and Death of King John

as    King John

1983
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

as    Reginald Perrin

1982
Britannia Hospital

as    Vincent Potter

1981
The Factory

as    Harry Meadows

1980
Rising Damp

as    Rigsby

1979
The Perishers

as    Boot (voice)

1979
Le Petomane

as    Monsieur Joseph Pujol

1978
The Waterloo Bridge Handicap

as    Charles Barker

1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again

as    Quinlan

1974
Luther

as    Brother Weinand

1974
Rising Damp

as    Rigsby

1969
Otley

as    Johnson

1969
The Double Agent

as    Nikolai Krobnevsky

1968
The Year of the Sex Olympics

as    Co-ordinator Ugo Priest

1968
2001: A Space Odyssey

as    Dr. Andrei Smyslov

1968
Deadfall

as    Fillmore

1968
Diamonds for Breakfast

as    Inspector Dudley

1967
Deadlier Than the Male

as    Henry Bridgenorth

1966
The Witches

as    Dr. Wallis