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HISTORICAL FACTS: Leonard rossiter | History Defined

Tony Brignull obituary

Advertising copywriter who brought ‘personality’ to products including Cinzano, Shredded Wheat and Parker pens

The Guardian - UK

Leonard Rossiter’s manic physicality was a revelation in British theatre

His gangster Hitler in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui turned him into a star but from his earliest roles the actor had an unforgettable expressive force

The Guardian - UK

‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter

Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, singular and demanding man

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Michael Blakemore obituary

Acclaimed theatre director admired for his productions of Kiss Me Kate and Copenhagen

The Guardian - UK

The Forgiven review – brooding tale of crime and punishment starring Fiennes and Chastain

Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain play a couple en route to a weekend of debauchery in the desert in this morality tale from John Michael McDonagh

The Guardian - UK

Josephine Tewson obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor admired for her comic timing, best known for Keeping Up Appearances and Last of the Summer Wine

The Guardian - UK

Eric Chappell obituary

Writer of Rising Damp, The Bounder, Duty Free and other successful television sitcoms

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Rising Damp writer Eric Chappell dies at 88

Tributes paid to ‘one of the all-time greats’, who also wrote Only When I Laugh and Duty Free

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