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Leonard Rossiter ( 21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984 ) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series and film Rising Damp ( 1974 – 80 ), and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ( 1976 – 79 ).
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The part of Arturo Ui has been played by a number of notable actors including Al Pacino, Darryl Low, Leonard Rossiter, Antony Sher, Nicol Williamson, Griff Rhys Jones and Peter Falk.
In 1979 Ian MacNaughton made a short humorous film, written by Galton and Simpson called Le Pétomane, based on Pujol's story and starring veteran comic actor Leonard Rossiter.
King John has been produced for television twice: in 1951 with Donald Wolfit and in 1984 with Leonard Rossiter as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series of adaptations.
On television, Harris was played by Leonard Rossiter in a 1978 BBC Play of the Week: Fearless Frank, or, Tidbits From The Life Of An Adventurer.
In 1985 he played the Mad Hatter in the Anglia Television serial adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, joining an all-star cast that included Michael Bentine, Leslie Crowther and Leonard Rossiter, and he also had an uncredited role ( as an arcade attendant ) in the Julien Temple film musical Absolute Beginners ( 1986 ) which stars Patsy Kensit.
In the 1968 film Otley, one of the Central Line platforms at Notting Hill Gate ( or a station pretending to be it ) is where the assassin and coach driver Johnston, played by Leonard Rossiter, blows himself up opening a booby-trapped suitcase full of money.
* In 1977, the British actor Leonard Rossiter played Haydon in a West End play, written by satirist John Wells titled The Immortal Haydon.
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a series of novels which developed into a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role.
This was seen as a failure by viewers, because the loss of Leonard Rossiter removed some affection for the series and despite a leading man in Geoffrey Palmer, the series lacked a central character.
In 1978 he wrote The Losers, an unsuccessful sitcom about a wrestling promoter starring Leonard Rossiter and Alfred Molina.
Floyd's first cookery book, Floyd's Food, published before he became a TV celebrity, had an introduction written by Leonard Rossiter, star of British TV sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
Rupert Rigsby ( Leonard Rossiter ) is the landlord of the house: an interfering, dour, tight fisted character with markedly right wing views, many of which he appears to have adopted without any evident process of moral examination or personal debate ( for example, in the film adaptation he states he believes hanging should be reinstated but this time " in public ").
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A third version was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on March 21, 2010 starring Rory Kinnear as Captain Bluntschli, Lydia Leonard as Raina and Tom Mison as Major Saranoff.
On November 21, 2011, it was announced on the bands official website that Enchant vocalist Ted Leonard and former touring drummer Jimmy Keegan will be the new singer and drummer of the band, respectively.
In 1990, 21 contemporary bands — including R. E. M., ZZ Top, Richard Lloyd, David Leonard, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Primal Scream — recorded covers of Elevators songs on Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, one of the first tribute albums, in what would become a fad.
Recordings include Eugene Onegin with Sinfonia 21 and Edward Downes, Salad Days and Walton's Henry V with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin.
The principality was founded on 21 April 1970 by Leonard George Casley when he and his associates proclaimed their secession from the state of Western Australia.
Promoted as " The Showdown ," Leonard ( 30-1 with 21 KO ) fought Hearns ( 32-0 with 30 KO ) on September 16, 1981 at Caesars Palace in Paradise, Nevada to unify the World Welterweight Championship in a scheduled fifteen-rounder.
The couple had two sons Herbert Chipman Tilley, born September 6, 1868, and Leonard Percy DeWolfe Tilley, born May 21, 1870.
The corps was reactivated at Fort Bragg on 21 May 1951 under the command of Major General John W. Leonard.
John Leonard Hines ( May 21, 1868 – October 13, 1968 ) was an American soldier who served as Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army from 1924 to 1926.
Charles Leonard Gehringer ( May 11, 1903 – January 21, 1993 ), nicknamed “ The Mechanical Man ,” was a German-American Major League Baseball second baseman who played 19 seasons ( 1924 – 42 ) for the Detroit Tigers.
Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley ( May 21, 1870 – December 28, 1947 ) was a New Brunswick lawyer, politician and the 21st Premier.
William Leonard Pickard ( born October 21, 1945 in Mill Valley, California ) is one of two people convicted in the largest lysergic acid diethylamide ( LSD ) manufacturing case in history.
When the novelist threw out the first pitch at a June 15, 1999 Tigers game, Leonard wore a No. 21 jersey that was presented to him by the Tigers in an homage to Kell.
Leonard ( Len ) Beadell OAM BEM FIEMS ( b. West Pennant Hills, New South Wales 21 April 1923-12 May 1995 ) was a surveyor, roadbuilder ( some 6500 km ), bushman, artist and author, responsible for opening up the last remaining isolated desert areas ( some 2. 5 million square kilometres ) of central Australia from 1947 to 1963.
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse ( September 8, 1864 – June 21, 1929 ) was a British liberal politician and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism.
Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, 10th Proprietary Governor of Maryland ( 21 March 1679 – 16 April 1715 ) was an English nobleman and politician.
Début seasons for regular starters, 21 year olds Matt Scott and Grant Gilchrist as well as 19 year old Harry Leonard.
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