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