leonard rossiter

Hamlet

Rising Damp, obviously. Superb.

In Reggie Perrrin, the guy who kept saying "super" (Bruce Bould) was in my year at school and we were quite pally.

never really liked rising damp as a kid, but i was only young. i liked reggie perrin though. no idea why i liked one but not the other, it was forever ago now.

been looking at the rising damp boxset on amazon. ive got the movie and its ok, presumably the series must have been better with the lad beckinsale in it. forget his first name.

Great!

i can only think of reggie perrin, rising damp and those adverts. bacardi or martini or wtf it was.

he musta been in other stuff???

2001: A Space Odyssey

Barry Lyndon

Kubrick must have rated him

what?? he was in 2001 a space odyssey???????

One memorable performance of Rossiters was when he appeared in a Steptoe And Son episode 'The Desperate Hours' as an escaped convict.

You can watch it here, if you want to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrD6cj-nqXk

ohhhh sh1t yeah. i dont need to watch it, ive got all the steptoe episodes. watched that one the other week, totally forgot he was in it.

here is his scene in 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fHMvdLiqk8

not very memorable is it. mind you, i cant remember anything about that movie apart from the music and the spinning spacey things.

He appeared twice in Steptoe $ Son, 1964 and 1972.
He was also the voice of 'Boot', the dog in 'The Perishers'

Everyone remembers The Desperate Hours as it was a bit of a classic between the 4 of them. But he was also in an earlier Steptoe as a Welshman with some lead to sell. Another magic performance.

do you know what the episode was called?

Yes it was The Leadman Cometh

i dont think ive seen all the early ones, i tend to rewatch the later ones. not just theyre in colour, but cos the audio on the earlier ones is really poor. i watched one last night and one today though. pot black, where harold buys a snooker table. and i think the other one was called "steptoe and son...and son" where some bird turns up saying harold got her pregnant. the audio on that one is dreadful. such a shame the beeb didnt keep proper recordings of them all.

thanks. im gonna watch that in a bit when i go to bed then!

May 19, 2014 -- 6:25PM, sideshowbob wrote:

not very memorable is it. mind you, i cant remember anything about that movie apart from the music and the spinning spacey things.

True , though i think he has a big role in Barry Lyndon . One of the few Kubrick films i've not seen.

He lived in Billing Road, off Fulham Road. First turning on the left after Chelsea Football ground (heading north)

he was the funeral director in film billy liar, wich was in fact more memorable for julie christie who is a stunner in it.

'ah cj,yeess. Well, any time this morning would suit me.'

'Seeing cj, 4 o'clock this afternoon.'

*funeral director was i think shadrack.

btw hed never get away with some of the comments directed towards 'philip' in rising damp in today's politically correct media.

He played Mr Sowerberry, the undertaker in the film "Oliver." "Quite right. We must ALL sit on Oliver."

The boxing match against Phillip in Rising Damp is as good as it gets imho.

Everyone of them is superb.

Joan's "KILL'EM" to Alan's "Use your experience Rigsby!"

Rigsby then catches himself on the ring rope on the way in to the fight..

Tony Broke  • May 20, 2014 8:08 AM BST
btw hed never get away with some of the comments directed towards 'philip' in rising damp in today's politically correct media.

and we are much the worse for it, in my opinion...we need a bit of humour and thicker skins

yes Rising Damp
and the Fall and Rise Of Reginald Perrin

were his two classics...a very good and loved  comedian, much missed

what an awful mistake to rework the reggie series with martin clunes, an abject failure.

not him, the series

agree Tony

Martin Clunes is good...but that was a failure

Here's a Rossiter film that isn't shown very often:

Le Petomane
1979
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Screenplay by Galton and Simpson
Directed by Ian MacNaughton

Starring Graham Stark, Madeleine Bellamy and Michael Cronin

''The story of Monsieur Joseph Pujol, a man with an elastic anus, whose 'farting' performances at the Moulin Rouge in Paris at the turn of the century drove his audiences into uncontrollable hysterics. Nurses had to be on call during performances. Leonard's portrayal in this 30-minute film was nothing short of brilliant. Although he didn't produce the sound effects himself, his actions and intensity of concentration for each 'emission' made it hard to remember that he didn't.''

http://www.leonardrossiter.com/Film.html#Petomane

It's on YouTube.

I'm sure erse2 won't be able to contain his excitement if he watches that.

Tony Broke 20 May 14 08:03 Joined: 03 Jun 02 | Topic/replies: 11,321 | Blogger: Tony Broke's blog
he was the funeral director in film billy liar, wich was in fact more memorable for julie christie who is a stunner in it.

If you can remember the steep stone stairs nest to the Funeral Directors, Tony, I will be climbing those in a couple of hours, as I regularly. They're a lot steeper than they used to be, although they haven't changed. Also the ballroom footage is shot in what was the Bradford Mecca. I've been there scores of times.

next*

I do*  grrr

is julie christie still there?

"Eleven minutes late, staff difficulties, Hampton Wick."
"Eleven minutes late, signal failure at Vauxhall."
"Eleven minutes late, staff shortages, Nine Elms."
"Eleven minutes late, derailment of container truck, Raynes Park."
"Eleven minutes late, seasonal manpower shortages, Clapham Junction."
"Eleven minutes late, defective junction box, New Malden."
"Eleven minutes late, overheated axle at Berrylands."
"Eleven minutes late, defective axle at Wandsworth."
"Eleven minutes late, somebody had stolen the lines at Surbiton."

http://www.leonardrossiter.com/reginaldperrin/Train.html

I'm sure erse2 won't be able to contain his excitement if he watches that.

Very funny Dr C!

CJ

I didn't get where I am today without knowing a favourable report when I read one
I didn't get where I am today by biting people in the changing room.
I didn't get where I am today by talking about Dutch parking meter disease!

http://www.leonardrossiter.com/reginaldperrin/CJisms.html

I didn't get where I am today without recognising Success City, Arizona when I see it.

C0ck-up on the catering front!

No, place is boarded up now and surrounded by 1000's of Asians.

http://www.urbexforums.com/showthread.php/9325-Bradford-Mecca-Dollars-And-Dimes

best ever sketch was when Philip says he has left rigsby a gift in his room, as he rushes upstairs a black lady is there looking to rent a room.

However rigsby thinks she is his "gift", comedy gold.

carnt find the clip on you tube though.

I have a prepared script for when the boiler room scammers ring.

'Are you old enough to remember the sit-com 'The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin',starring Leonard Rossiter with John Barron('CJ')as the CEO of Sunshine Desserts? CJ's catch phrase was 'I didn't get where I am today by not blah ,blah,blah....'

Anyway,my final comment is that 'I didn't get to be  where I am today by not recognising a boiler room scam when I hear one'.

Most of the scum bags were not born until after the series finished.

When they ring, you should answer: "C.J on red!"

i gave in and bought the rising damp boxset. on amazon. to an amazon locker. not the one where i had my infamous meltdown though. along with stewart lees comedy vehicle series 1 and stewart lees comedy vehicle series 2. 20 quid the lot. bargain.

i dont really like stewart lee that much tbh, hes ok. i need to be in the mood for him. hes definitely not for a light hearted giggle to relax to. but he is an interesting alternative to the usual fare. im a collector of stand up comedy and hes one of the few well known british stand ups i have no dvds of. ive seen series 2 and series 3 and found them at times irritating and at times amusing. he likes to be irritating im sure, it gives him a glint in his eye. dont think i ever saw series 1, though i could be wrong.