Leonard Rossiter was a distinguished English actor, known for his comedy roles in two British television series of the 1970s, and for his roles in two Stanley Kubrick films. Rossiter was born in Liverpool. He began acting when he picked up a girlfriend from her amateur dramatics class and was challenged to do better when he criticised her and her fellow performers. Wikipedia
Leonard Rossiter was born on October 21st, 1926 in Liverpool. Unable to afford to go to university, he worked in an insurance office until he was 27, when he joined Preston repertory company and made his professional stage debut in The Gay Dog. After Pres www.imdb.com/name/nm0744436/
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"Leonard always acted with his own, absolutely special dynamic - a high tension artist to whom audiences were drawn as compellingly and fixedly as moths to an incandescent bulb. He never asked for sympathy - he would have scorned that. He guarded his se www.leonardrossiter.com/Britannia.html
Rossiter disliked long-running series (he had turned down a long-term contract for Z Cars ), but the role of Rigsby in Rising Damp proved too tempting. That rare commodity, an ITV comedy of lasting worth, Rising Damp (ITV, 1974-78), set entirely within t www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/839917/index.html
Leonard Rossiter was a fiercely private, family man whose absence is still felt 16 years after his death. ... Born in Liverpool in October 1926, Leonard Rossiter started his working life as an insurance salesman. His success in, and love of, amateur d www.fortunecity.com/lavender/atkinson/816/lros.html
