Leonard Rossiter

Leonard Rossiter

出生 : 1926-10-21, Wavertree, Liverpool, England, UK

死亡 : 1984-10-05

略歴

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series Rising Damp (1974–78), and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79). He also had a long and distinguished career in the theatre and gained some notoriety for a series of Cinzano commercials (1978–1983), with Joan Collins. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leonard Rossiter, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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参加作品

Leonard Rossiter: Comedy Great
Self (Archive footage)
A celebration of the actor's life and career, featuring contributions from friends, co-stars and fans including Don Warrington, Sue Nicholls and Mark Lester. The programme also includes a never-before-seen interview with Rossiter himself, and brings new perspectives on one of Britain's best-loved actors, from his upbringing in Liverpool to his remarkable, late-blossoming TV career.
The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter
Various (archive footage)
Tribute to the much-loved character actor.
Starry Night
Mr. Morganstern
Comedy - Vincent Van Gogh comes back to life after being the recipient of a magic potion. He finds that his work has become quite valuable, and begins stealing his works. At the same time, he has a hard time getting anyone to believe he's really Van Gogh. - David Abbott, Lisa Waltz, Lou Wagner
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
Self
A compilation of the many characters played by Leonard Rossiter.
The Moon Over Soho
Max von Konigsberg
A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.
Water
Sir Malcolm Leveridge
A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
The Life and Death of King John
King John
The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but there are others who seek disputre his authority.
Dog Ends
Arthur
A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a neighbour suggests a painless way to be rid of him. This black comedy is set in the future, where euthanasia is lawful and increasingly common, but it should still, ideally, be voluntary.
ピンク・パンサーX
Superintendant Quinlan
またもルガシュ王国から宝石「ピンクの豹」が盗まれた! クルーゾーは“ファントム"ことチャールズ卿の仕業とにらみ勝手にロンドンへ飛ぶが、ドレフュスの指令で今度は中東へ。だが、クルーゾーが乗った飛行機が行方不明になってしまう。国民的英雄を悼むテレビ局は美人レポーターを派遣し、クルーゾーゆかりの人々を取材する。チャールズ卿やその妻におさまった元クルーゾー夫人のシモーヌ、助手のケイトー、部下のエルキュールらが思い出を語る。レポーターはクルーゾーの父が住むワイン畑を訪れるが……。
Britannia Hospital
Vincent Potter
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
The Factory
Harry Meadows
"What's a lock-out, my son? A lock-out is engraved in the history of the class struggle. A lock-out is our Glencoe. It's where they try and drive a stake into our underbelly." A factory's workforce is dwindling as divisions between the workers and management widen.
Rising Damp
Rigsby
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip rather than him, despite his pitiful attempts at seduction.
Le Petomane
Monsieur Joseph Pujol
The incredibly true story of the legendary French entertainer Joseph Pujol, who performed impersonations with his self-described 'elastic anus' and a surfeit of wind.
Fearless Frank
The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.
Voyage of the Damned
Commander von Bonin
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
ピンク・パンサー3
Quinlan
クルーゾーに振り回されっぱなしで精神に異常をきたしていた上司のドレフュスが病院を脱走、世界的物理学者を誘拐して物質消滅兵器を開発した。国連ビルが消滅するのを目の当たりにした各国首脳はドレフュスの要求を受け、クルーゾー暗殺のために殺し屋を派遣する。そんな騒ぎを知ってか知らずか、のん気にドイツのビール祭にやってきたクルーゾーだが、殺し屋たちは勝手に全滅。ドレフュスの秘密基地に甲冑姿で忍び込んだクルーゾーは見事にドレフュスを“消滅"させ、ロシアの美人スパイ・オルガと一緒にゴージャスなベッドに飛び込んだ……。
Machinegunner
Cyril Dugdale
A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.
バリー・リンドン
Capt. John Quin
18世紀ヨーロッパ貴族社会の風俗や世界観を鮮やかに再現し、日和見主義で英国貴族に成り上がっていくアイルランド青年の栄華と没落の半生を描いたヒューマン・ドラマ。
After the Solo
Dawson
"The voice will make its effect. And it will, undoubtedly, be very touching. But, tell me: after his voice has broken, can you make anything of him then?" After the solo, after the chorus, after the applause?
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
The Blind Man
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Luther
Brother Weinand
One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
The Italian Table
Mr. Jeffs
A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.
Otley
Johnson
A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Diamonds for Breakfast
Inspector Dudley
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.
オリバー!
Sowerberry
19世紀のロンドン。貧しい人たちが暮らす施設で母親が亡くなった時に生まれた息子、オリバーは元気のいい少年に成長するが、飢えた子どもたちの心を代弁したために施設から追い出されてしまう。オリバーはすりの少年ドジャーと知り合い、彼の仲間に加わり、老紳士ブラウンローに初仕事を仕掛けるが失敗。だが、ブラウンローはなぜかオリバーのことを気に入る。やがてオリバーの親戚に関して意外な事実が明らかになっていく。
Deadfall
Fillmore
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Co-ordinator Ugo Priest
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.
2001年宇宙の旅
Dr. Andrei Smyslov
スタンリー・キューブリックがA・C・クラークのアイディアを基に製作したSF映画の金字塔。 月に人が住むようになった時代。月のティコクレーターの地中からの謎の石碑「モノリス」が発掘され、合衆国宇宙評議会のフロイド博士が調査に向かう。それから18カ月後、最新型人工知能「HAL 9000型コンピュータ」を搭載した宇宙船ディスカバリー号は、デビッド・ボウマン船長、フランク・プールら5人のクルーを乗せて木星探査に向けて航行していた。しかし、その途上でHALが探査計画に対して疑問を抱いていることを打ち明ける。ボウマンとプールはHALの不調を疑い、いざというときはHALの回路を切断することを決めるが、それを知ったHALは反乱を起こす。
The Whisperers
Assistance Board Officer
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
Deadlier Than the Male
Henry Bridgenorth
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
The Witches
Dr. Wallis
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
The Devil's Eggshell
Prime Minister
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy.
The Wrong Box
Vyvyan Alistair Montague
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Hotel Paradiso
Inspector
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains), and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso; but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel, and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season.
King Rat
McCoy
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
The Long Ships
Persian Soldier Who Falls On Sword (uncredited)
Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical treasure, and sails with his crew from Scandinavia to Africa to track it down. Reluctantly working together, El Mansuh and Rolfe, along with their men, embark on a quest for the prized object, but only one leader will be able to claim the bell as his own — if it even exists at all.
A Jolly Bad Fellow
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
Billy Liar
Emanuel Shadrack
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
This Sporting Life
Phillips, Sports Writer
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
A Kind of Loving
Whymper
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.