The Life and Career of
Leonard Rossiter

1926 - 1984

One of Britain's greatest actors
of drama and comedy

See also the separate web sites for
Reginald Perrin and Rising Damp



News:

2010

14-July: Leonard's final sitcom Tripper's Day is finally being released on DVD on September 20th. Please pre-order from Amazon UK by clicking the image on the right. More details on the series can be found here.

10-May: BBC Radio 7 will this month be broadcasting Leonard's 1981 narration of Barry Pilton's journalistic musings, collectively entitled In A Nutshell. This series has never been broadcast since that year, and is not available elsewhere.
- BBC7's week-to-view schedules for In A Nutshell are here (there are seven episodes in all to come).
- Details of how to listen to BBC7 are here.
- Don't forget their Listen Again page which archives programmes for seven days (UK only I think).
- More details on the series here

26-Feb: The Johnny Speight play If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have To Invent Them is out on DVD now. Order here. It co-starred a pre-Rising Damp Richard Beckinsale, and Bob Hoskins. More details here.

2009

12-Dec: Uploaded new clip from The Whisperers, 1967. Watch

05-Oct: Hard to believe, but Leonard died 25 years ago today. Thankfully, we have the majority of his TV and Film work to remember him by, and to enjoy forever.

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