Leonard Rossiter

Chronology Of Television Performances

Note: Dates are UK broadcast dates.

TELEVISION


DATE:
TITLE:
ROLE:
AUTHOR:
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER:
COMPANY*:
3/56
Story Conference
Leo Borowitz
Norman Holland
P: Victor Menzies
BBC
2/59
The Constable's Move
Joe Stocks
W. Jacobs
P: Peter Dews
BBC
10/61
The One That Got Away
Fenny
Berkely Mather
P: Alan Bridges
BBC
2/62
The Intrigue
Gerard Moustier
Jacques Natanson
P: Alan Bridges
BBC
11/62
The Morning After
Harry
G. C. Brown
D: John Hale
ATV
1-3/63
Z Cars
Det. Insp. Bamber
John Hopkins
D: Saun Sutton
P: David Rose
BBC
2/63
The Buried Man
Robert Bailey
David Mercer
D: Graham Evans
Rediffusion
5/63
Walk In Fear
Alan Treece
John Wilkie
P: Patrick Dromgoole
BBC
8/63
The Story Of A Farm Girl
Emile Vallin
Guy de Maupassant
D: Silvio Narizzano
P: Philip Mackie
Granada
8/63
The Fruit At The Bottom 
Of The Bowl
William Acton
Ray Bradbury
D: John Hale
ATV
12/63
It's All Lovely
Sammy Love
David Proudfoot
D: Peter Graham Scott
P: John Elliott
BBC
12/63
The Avengers 
(ep: 'Dressed To Kill')
Robin Hood
Brian Clemens
D: Bill Bain
P: John Bryce
ITV
1/64
Steptoe And Son (ep:
'The Lead Man Cometh')
Welsh Hughie
Ray Galton & 
Alan Simpson
P: Duncan Wood
BBC
4/64
Flight From Reality
Patrick
Leo Lehman
D: John Hale
ATV
4/64
Justin Thyme
Daudet
John Bluthal, 
Robert Fuest & 
Joe McGrath
D: Joe McGrath
P: Peter Luke
BBC
7/64
Beggars And Choosers
Sgt. 'Tubby' Watson
Douglas Livingstone
D: Eric Price
P: Stella Richman
ATV
11/64
Not So Much A Programme,
More A Way Of Life
various
various
P: Ned Sherrin
BBC
-/64
The House Of Glass (unrel.)
Sgt. Golto
Mike Watts
D: Michael Currer-Briggs
Rediffusion
3/65
Celebration
Frank Broadbent
Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
D: Mary Ridge
P: Bernard Hepton
BBC
6/65
Cluff (ep: 'The Fire Raiser')
Wilkie
Gil North
D/P: Terence Dudley
BBC
7/65
Redcap
(ep: 'Epitaph For A Sweet')
Sergeant Rolfe
Richard Harris
D: Peter Graham Scott
P: John Bryce
ABC
7/65
Between The Two Of Us
The Man
Rhys Adrian
D: Graham Evans
P: Cecil Clarke
ATV
9-10/65
BBC-3
various
various
D/P: Ned Sherrin
BBC
11/65
Mr. Fowlds
Leslie Harmon
John Bowen
D: Vivian Matalon
P: Cecil Clarke
ATV
1/66
Dr. Knock
Dr. Knock
Jules Romains
D: Herbert Wise
P: Cedric Messina
BBC
5/66
Semi-Detached
Fred Midway
David Turner
D: Gilchrist Calder
P: Cedric Messina
BBC
5-6/66
Death Is A Good Living
Norman Lynch
Brian Degas & Tudor Gates
D: Gerald Blake
P: Alan Bromly
BBC
6/66
The Devil's Eggshell
Prime Minister
David Weir
D: Gareth Davies
P: Cedric Messina
BBC
1/67
Taste
Mike Schofield
Roald Dahl
D: John Glenister
P: Graeme McDonald
BBC
5/67
The Revenue Men 
(ep: 'The Benefactor')
Ormerod
John Pennington
D: Richard Argent
P: Gerard Glaister
BBC
5/67
Drums Along The Avon
Mr. Marcus
Charles Wood
D: James MacTaggart 
P: Tony Garnett
BBC
9/67
Goodbye, That's All
Man
Dennis Woolf
D/P: John Robins
BBC
10/67
Up The Theatre
Guest
-
-
BBC
12/67
Day Of The Tortoise
Fred Tomlinson
H. E. Bates
D: Michael Currer-Briggs 
P: Antony Kearer
Rediffusion
1/68
At The Eleventh Hour
various
various
D: Peter Chafer
BBC
2/68
The Unquiet Man
Andrew
Michael Keir
D: Naomi K. Capon
P: George Spenton-Foster
BBC
3/68
A View From The Obelisk
Owen Brian
Hugh Leonard
D: Alastair Reid
P: Stella Richman
Rediffusion
4/68
The Fanatics
Voltaire
Max Marquis
D: Rudolph Cartier
P: Michael Bakewell
BBC
7/68
The Year Of The 
Sex Olympics
Co-ordinator 
Ugi Priest
Nigel Kneale
D: Michael Eliott
P: Ronald Travers
BBC
5/69
The Double Agent
Nikolai Krobnevsky
Anthony Stevens
D: John Jacobs
Anglia
8/65
The Garbler Strategy
X
Maurice Flanagan
D/P: Geoffrey Hughes
ATV
2/70
The Italian Table
Mr. Jeffs
William Trevor
D: Herbert Wise
P: Irene Shubik
BBC
3/71
Harry-Kari And Sally
Harry
Douglas Livingstone
D: John Gorrie
P: Cecil Clarke
ATV
2/72
Thick As Thieves
Dobbs
Bob Baker & 
Dave Martin
D/P: Patrick Dromgoole
HTV
4/72
Steptoe And Son
(ep: 'The Desperate Hours')
John Spooner
Ray Galton &
Alan Simpson
P: John Howard Davies
BBC
11/72
The Magistrate
Colonel Lukyn
Arthur Wing Pinero
D: Bill Hays
P: Cedric Messina
BBC
2/73
After Loch Lomond
Mickey Grant
Douglas Livingstone
D: John Gorrie
P: Verity Lambert
LWT
4/73
The Baby's Name Being Kitchener
Sergeant Tax
Peter Everett
D: Michael Hayes
P: Tim Aspinall
BBC
3/74
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have To Invent Them
Blind man
Johnny Speight
D: Bill Hays
P: Rex Firkin
LWT
4/74
The Carnforth Practice 
(ep: 'The Aristocrat')
Aaros Boswell
Allan Prior
D: Cyril Coke 
P: Colin Morris
BBC
5/74
Masquerade - Mutzen Ab!
Lewis
Charles Wood
D: Graham Evans 
P: Herbert Wise
BBC
6/74
Pygmalion Smith
Pygmalion
'Smithy' Smith
Roy Clarke
D/P: Roger Race
BBC
12/74-1/75
Rising Damp
Rupert Rigsby
Eric Chappell
D/P: Ronnie Baxter
YTV
2/75
This is Your Life
honoured guest
Eamonn Andrews
D: Eamonn Andrews 
P: Jack Crawshaw
Thames
4/75
Not The Cheapest
But The Best
Narrator & Isombard
Kingdom Brunel
Michael Andrews
D: Michael Andrews 
P: Tim Aspinall
BBC
5/75
Husband Of The Year
Guest
Brad Ashton
D: David Millard
P: Vernon Lawrence
YTV
7/75
After The Solo
Father
John Challen
D: Moira Armstrong
BBC
11-12/75
Rising Damp
Rupert Rigsby
Eric Chappell
D/P: Ronnie Baxter
YTV
7/76
Machinegunner
Cyril Dugdale
Bob Baker & 
Dave Martin
D/P: Patrick Dromgoole
HTV
9-10/76
The Fall And Rise Of
Reginald Perrin
Reginald Perrin
David Nobbs
D/P: Gareth Gwenlan
BBC
11/76
TVTimes Top Ten Awards
Guest
Tony Hawes
D: Daphne Shadwell
P: David Clark
ITV
3/77
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse (ep: 'I Tell You   It's Burt Reynolds')
Leonard
Ray Galton &
Alan Simpson
D/P: Ronnie Baxter
YTV
4-5/77
Rising Damp
Rupert Rigsby
Eric Chappell
D/P: Ronnie Baxter
YTV
9-11/77
The Fall And Rise Of
Reginald Perrin
Reginald Perrin
David Nobbs
D/P: Gareth Gwenlan
BBC
11/77
This Is Your Life - R. Beckinsale
Guest
Ralph Edwards
D: Terry Yarwood
P: Jack Crawshaw
Thames
4-5/78
Rising Damp
Rupert Rigsby
Eric Chappell
D/P: Vernon Lawrence
YTV
10/78
Fearless Frank
Frank Harris
Andrew Davies
D: Colin Bucksey 
P: Louis Marks
BBC
10/78
Song By Song By Harburg
Groucho Marx
Yip Harburg
D: Vernon Lawrence 
P: Deke Arlon
YTV
11-12/78
The Losers
Sydney Foskett
Alan Coren
D: Joe McGrath 
P: Terence Baker
ATV
12/78
Morecambe And Wise
Christmas Show
One of three
Andrews Sisters
various
D/P: Keith Beckett
Thames
11/78-1/79
The Fall And Rise Of
Reginald Perrin
Reginald Perrin
David Nobbs
D/P: Gareth Gwenlan
BBC
5/79
The Perishers (cartoon)
Boot, the family dog (voice-over)
Maurice Dodd
D: Dick Horn 
P: Graeme Spurway
BBC
2/80
Clapperboard
Guest
-
D: Mike Becker
P: Muriel Young
Granada
-/81
An Actor's Life For Me
Interviewer
-
P: Tony Staveacre
BBC
12/81
The Factory
Harry Meadows
David Hopkins
D: Gerald Blake 
P: Innes Lloyd
BBC
7/82
Escape To The West
Gerry Gee
Dave Martin
D: Alex Kirby
P: Patrick Dromgoole
HTV
12//82
segment of 'The Funny
Side Of Christmas'
Reginald Perrin
David Nobbs
P: Robin Nash
BBC
5/83
Good Morning Britain
Guest
-
-
ITV
7/83
The Green Tie On The
Little Yellow Dog
various
various
D/Co-P: Bryan Izzard 
Co-P: Neil Anthony
Ch.4
7/84
Dog Ends
Arthur
Richard Harris
D: Carol Wiseman 
P: Andree Molyneux
BBC
9-10/84
Tripper's Day
Norman Tripper
Brian Cook
D: Michael Mills 
P: James Gilbert
Thames
11/84
The Life And Death
Of King John
King John
William Shakespeare
D: David Giles 
P: Saun Sutton
BBC
8/85
Moon Over Soho
Max von Konisberg
Peter Ansorge
D: Stuart Burge 
P: Michael Wearing
Rediffusion
unknown
Jackanory
narrator
unknown
unknown
BBC

(*) Companies: BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation; ATV - Associated Televison (forerunner of ITV); ITV - Independent Television; HTV - Harlech Television (Welsh broadcaster); YTV - Yorkshire Television; LWT - London Weekend Television; Ch.4 - Channel Four.


TELEVISION COMMERCIALS/Corporate Films


DATE:
COMPANY:
CHARACTER:
TITLE:
ART DIRECTOR:
DIRECTOR:
1977
Parker Pens
Traffic Warden
-
-
Brian Byfield
1978
Beechams
'Reggie Perrin'
Silvikrin
   
1978-83
Cinzano
'Nebbish'
1. Bianco Launch
2. Rose Launch
3. Secco Launch
4. Airliner
5. Ski Lodge
6. Roller Disco
7. Balcony
8. Mime
9. Tiger's Head
10. Dragoon
1-3. Ron Collins
4-5. Neil Godfrey
6-7. Paul Smith
8. Judy Smith
9-10. Terry Lovelock
1-3. Alan Parker
4-5. Hugh Hudson
6-7. Paul Weiland
8.  Peter Levelle
9-10. Terry Lovelock
1979
Prestel
Harry Lemon
The Prestel Connection
-
Len Fulford
1979
Hambro
'Reggie Perrin'
Hambro Life
-
-
1982
Xerox
-
Time To Think
-
Sue Tramontini
1982
London Docklands
Development
Puppet crow
(voice-over) (*)
-
-
Ken Turner
1983
Barclays Bank
-
Mick's people
Roger Pratt
Jonathan Lynn

(*) Based on 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin' featuring a dialogue with a crow voiced by John Barron (Reggie's boss C.J.).
Leonard also appeared in a number of industrial training videos with John Barron in Reggie Perrin/C.J.-type storylines.


RADIO


DATE:
TITLE:
ROLE:
November 1957
Mr. Travers' Nightmare
-
September 1963
Semi-Detached
Fred Midway
January 1965
Paths Of Glory
-
February 1966
Steptoe And Son (ep: 'The Lead Man Cometh')
Welsh Hughie
September 1972
A Little Music At Night
Guest
April 1973
No Exit
-
March 1980
Desert Island Discs
Guest
- 1981
In A Nutshell
Narrator
May 1981
With Great Pleasure
Guest
July 1983
Close Encounters Of The Worst Kind
-


OTHER MEDIA
Leonard recorded several business and management training films, mostly
with John Barron and based on their worker-boss relationships as Reginald Perrin and C.J.

Leonard recorded at least two 'Talking Book' audio cassettes:
An abridged version of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol', and also appeared
as a guest star on C. Northcote-Parkinson's 'Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman'.

Leonard is the author of two books:
'The Devil's Bedside Book: A Cynic's Survival Guide' (1980),
and 'The Lowest Form Of Wit' (1981)

Leonard is credited on the following 7" single:
'Rising Damp' by Leonard Rossiter & The Rigsbyettes.
This was the theme song to Rising Damp: The Movie (1980).






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Text (c) Paul Fisher 2004