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 · Jan 13, 2025

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 · Oct 7, 2024

‘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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2022