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