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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