Leonard Rossiter
Birthday
1926/10/21
Day of death
1984/10/05 (57 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Wavertree, Liverpool, England, UK
Also know as
Len Rossiter
Biography
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.
Acting
(1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey
as Dr. Andrei Smyslov
(1975) Barry Lyndon
as Captain Quin
(1969) Otley
as Johnson
(1967) Deadlier Than the Male
as Henry Bridgenorth
(1980) Rising Damp
as Rigsby
(1976) The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Quinlan
(1963) Billy Liar
as Emanuel Shadrack
(1982) Britannia Hospital
as Vincent Potter
(1962) A Kind of Loving
as Whymper
(1966) The Witches
as Dr. Wallis
(1965) King Rat
as McCoy
(1967) Drums Along The Avon
as Mr. Marcus
(1968) Oliver!
as Sowerberry
(1968) Deadfall
as Fillmore
(1985) Water
as Sir Malcolm Leveridge
(1964) The Long Ships
as Persian Soldier Who Falls On Sword (uncredited)
(1974) Luther
as Brother Weinand
(1996) 'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
as Self
(1979) Le Petomane
as Monsieur Joseph Pujol
(1968) The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Co-ordinator Ugo Priest
(1966) Hotel Paradiso
as Inspector
(1974) If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
as The Blind Man
(1968) Diamonds for Breakfast
as Inspector Dudley
(2022) Leonard Rossiter: Comedy Great
as Self (Archive footage)
(1964) A Jolly Bad Fellow
as Dr. Fisher
(1969) The Double Agent
as Nikolai Krobnevsky
(1978) Fearless Frank
as ---
(1982) Trail of the Pink Panther
as Superintendant Quinlan
(1967) The Whisperers
as Assistance Board Officer
(1976) Machinegunner
as Cyril Dugdale
(1966) The Devil's Eggshell
as Prime Minister
(1966) The Wrong Box
as Vyvyan Alistair Montague
(1985) The Moon Over Soho
as Max von Konigsberg
(1984) The Life and Death of King John
as King John
(1999) Starry Night
as Mr. Morganstern
(1963) This Sporting Life
as Phillips, Sports Writer
(1984) Dog Ends
as Arthur
(1976) Voyage of the Damned
as Commander von Bonin
(1970) The Italian Table
as Mr. Jeffs
(2000) The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter
as Various (archive footage)
(1975) After the Solo
as Dawson
(1981) The Factory
as Harry Meadows
(1976) The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
as ---
(1962) Z-Cars
as ---
(1974) Rising Damp
as Rigsby
(1964) Redcap
as ---
(1970) Play for Today
as ---
(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare
as ---
(1978) The Losers
as ---
(1984) Tripper's Day
as ---
(1974) The Carnforth Practice
as ---
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as The Prime Minister
(1977) The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
as ---
(1962) Studio Four
as Gerard Moustier
(1966) You Can't Win
as ---
(1966) Death is a Good Living
as ---
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Colonel Lukyn
(1985) Alice in Wonderland
as King of Hearts
(1962) Steptoe and Son
as Johnny Spooner
(1962) Steptoe and Son
as Welsh Hughie
(1970) Play for Today
as Arthur