Indeed, the dodgy Welshman flogging the Steptoes the lead off their own roof, and Johnny, one of two old lags who got over the wall of the Scrubs. Classic!! 😄
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Something haunting now about LR answering questions about squash and being fit & healthy when within four years he would die from enlarged/thickened heart muscle, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, at only age 57. Live life to the full, people.
As tempting as it is to wax lyrical about his character of Rigsby, a role he was born to play, I still like to remember him goofing around with Joan Collins in the Cinzano adverts of the 70s and early 80s. There are several out there on YT, and make me chuckle to this day! 😄
Rossiter made his pro acting debut at the Preston Hippodrome in 1954. Sadly demolished in 1959 for a retail unit. It was last a branch of Wilko. I pass it every day on the way to work.
I like the fact that they're both sat in seats that I'm certain would make the noise of those in CJ's office when they sat in and stood up from them. Coincidentally one of their names is a euphemism for that noise too.
What always fascinated me about Stanley Kubrick is that he was willing to take on comedy actors into his movies despite being a very serious director; Leonard Rossiter was great in Barry Lyndon, a truly witty and exceptional man. Kubrick always had a very ironic, dark sense of humour and I wonder what he saw in Rossiter and Peter Sellers perhaps he saw some darkness in both of them (I know Sellers was troubled and there were some 'rumours' lets just say regarding Rossiter but I won't go into them on here.).
As I get older, there's more of Reggie Perrin's peculiarities entering my persona - the irreverence; thoughts of fantasy; lack of caring much about things. There's a bit of Reggie in all of us.
@@jazztheglass6139 - At the end of the day, he was the architect of his own downfall, getting caught not just once but twice. And if you care to read around, several former colleagues were less than complimentary about his behaviour in the workplace. Another almost classic Jekyll & Hyde - one thing on screen, quite another off.
Was alleged to brag about his private dimensions as a way of introducing himself to new female members of the team. BT didn't just stand for Breakfast Time.
Great actor,I run a Facebook group to him. Strange to see him say that he didn't marry until he was in his 40s,as this wouldn't include his first marriage.
Leonard is cordial and easy-going, while the interviewer is the exact opposite. Leonard isn't even allowed to finish his responses before the guy is abruptly asking his next question.
He wasn't easy going in general. Most people who worked with him were scared of him or just didn't like him. He had the actor who played his son in Reggie Perrin sacked and Frances De La Tour hated him.
Good to see Leonard Rossiter and Frank Bough….today…Frank Bough would not fired for his personnel life choice of smoking pot. Half of the GB tv today on worse drugs and alcohol…no clear minds today.
It wasn't just weed that Frank was pilloried for. It was far more about the Colombian marching powder and inventive sexual antics. Plenty in the business indulge in much the same way, but he just happened to get caught, not just once, but twice! It all came across as a bit sordid and grotty, and destroyed his career as a result.
1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive 1057am 27.6.24 reggie perrin? classic. communal tv never sounded so good. mass laughter. 30 years later. mass panic!!!
1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive 1057am 27.6.24 this is true - single people are screwed by those on the make and those who like to allow others to starve....
@@johnp515 Comments Comments on ‘1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive’ 11.8.24 0534am example, please...? i thought his la petomane was the most amusing film i had seen in a long time. and i still do find it funny. to be viewed every few years or so or if you have a visitor round who comprehends whisky and attics..... as for bit parts - the dude is even to be seen in 2001 space odyssey. strange, wouldn't you say? or maybe he was just mooching around the studios one day and they suggested he act such and such a bit part.... it has been known, i suppose....
@@johnp515 He was one of the few actors Kubrick actually wanted to work with more than once and that is very telling. Also....he worked with Kubrick! That is far more relevant than Joan Collins.
1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive 1053am 27.6.24 rik mayall trynna say frank bough. much to chris ryan's glee.... on a more literal note - i enjoyed this guy, Rossiter, from le petamane to Rigsby. pretty much hilarious.
He played two very different characters in two episodes of Steptoe and Son. His versatility sometimes gets overlooked. Utter legend in my eyes.
Indeed, the dodgy Welshman flogging the Steptoes the lead off their own roof, and Johnny, one of two old lags who got over the wall of the Scrubs. Classic!! 😄
1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive 1055am 27.6.24 shardy-hardy-shadrack. hey!! shadrack.... and so on....
2001: A Space Odyssey. A brief but brilliant part.
@@sprint955st Comments on ‘1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive’ 1839pm 27.6.24 i thought it was him. an incongruous posting...
@@JJONNYREPP Billy Liar! I love that scene.
'in my day when you scored a goal, all you got was a brisk handshake....now you get covered in lovebites'😊
Rigsby one liner ?
I can just see Leonard as a teacher but I'm so glad he became an actor...the characters he played gave us so much joy ♥️😊
Something haunting now about LR answering questions about squash and being fit & healthy when within four years he would die from enlarged/thickened heart muscle, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, at only age 57. Live life to the full, people.
It’s not haunting at all.
@@theelvisguru9490It is haunting.
When Rigsby and Alan ( Richard Beckinsale) went at each other and argued for me it made for some of the funniest comedy I've ever seen.❤
@@ChooChooTheCat8899 Don Warrington was good too.
He was a legend. The fastest line delivery ever ❤
As tempting as it is to wax lyrical about his character of Rigsby, a role he was born to play, I still like to remember him goofing around with Joan Collins in the Cinzano adverts of the 70s and early 80s. There are several out there on YT, and make me chuckle to this day! 😄
Great. He didn't give many interviews, and this is the best I've seen.
Such an amazing and versatile actor.
A colossal actor. Kubrick knew he was great...twice!
love
He didn't get where he is today by talking about Reggie Perrin
Excellent. 🤣
. 🎯 😂😂😂
One of my favourite things he did was "Waterloo Bridge Handicap". If you haven't seen this marvellous short film, go and seek it out!
Wonderful little film.
Rossiter made his pro acting debut at the Preston Hippodrome in 1954. Sadly demolished in 1959 for a retail unit. It was last a branch of Wilko. I pass it every day on the way to work.
I like the fact that they're both sat in seats that I'm certain would make the noise of those in CJ's office when they sat in and stood up from them. Coincidentally one of their names is a euphemism for that noise too.
One of the all-time greats.
Rigsby & Reggie of course, but also 2001, Barry Lyndon, Otley, Oliver!...
What a great comedy actor he was, right to the end in Tripper's Day.
Fact. Leonard Rossiter and Holly Johnson went to the same school in Liverpool. As did I.😜😜
used to live in the same road as my uncle in Speke, Liverpool. Greyhound Farm Road
Great character actor .
“Oh Miss Jones, Miss Jones”
"May I call you Ruth?"
What always fascinated me about Stanley Kubrick is that he was willing to take on comedy actors into his movies despite being a very serious director; Leonard Rossiter was great in Barry Lyndon, a truly witty and exceptional man. Kubrick always had a very ironic, dark sense of humour and I wonder what he saw in Rossiter and Peter Sellers perhaps he saw some darkness in both of them (I know Sellers was troubled and there were some 'rumours' lets just say regarding Rossiter but I won't go into them on here.).
Leonard Rossiter was in 2001 before he became famous a a comic actor.
@@fredo1070 - It could be argued that he was always a straight actor that subsequently found success playing comedy.
@@fredo1070 hardly, he was in Billy Liar
@@marknewbold2583He did not play a comic character in Billy Liar.
As I get older, there's more of Reggie Perrin's peculiarities entering my persona - the irreverence; thoughts of fantasy; lack of caring much about things. There's a bit of Reggie in all of us.
It was rumoured that there was a bit of Bough in quite a lot of us too
@@Edward-ed1nu it’s just hearsay.
A REAL LEGEND,
Rigsby will never be bettered, comic genius.
Mr. Rigsby!!
Frank Bough was a naughty naughty newsreader.
I knew the woman who ran the working flat, that got him in the newspapers. It was 164, basement flat Gloucester place W2. She said he was a nice gent
@@jazztheglass6139 - After Frank's public fall from grace, there were several of his former female colleagues who claimed otherwise.
@@analogueman123456787 He was a big payer. Polite to the girls, never caused any trouble
@@jazztheglass6139 - At the end of the day, he was the architect of his own downfall, getting caught not just once but twice.
And if you care to read around, several former colleagues were less than complimentary about his behaviour in the workplace.
Another almost classic Jekyll & Hyde - one thing on screen, quite another off.
Was alleged to brag about his private dimensions as a way of introducing himself to new female members of the team. BT didn't just stand for Breakfast Time.
Super
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GAME OVER
Great actor,I run a Facebook group to him. Strange to see him say that he didn't marry until he was in his 40s,as this wouldn't include his first marriage.
a genius, u watch step toe and son, cos he was in a episode, he could of been a A list movie star,his charisma
Leonard is cordial and easy-going, while the interviewer is the exact opposite. Leonard isn't even allowed to finish his responses before the guy is abruptly asking his next question.
He wasn't easy going in general. Most people who worked with him were scared of him or just didn't like him. He had the actor who played his son in Reggie Perrin sacked and Frances De La Tour hated him.
@@nonnayoubuzinnes1669 He’s talking about this interview, not tittle tattle.
Frank was partial to the old Bolivian marching powder as I recall.
He was, but twice came a cropper when he forgot the 11th Commandment - Thou shalt not be caught. 😄
During the early 1980s Rossiter had had a five-year relationship with the broadcaster Sue MacGregor. He was some guy.
Good to see Leonard Rossiter and Frank Bough….today…Frank Bough would not fired for his personnel life choice of smoking pot. Half of the GB tv today on worse drugs and alcohol…no clear minds today.
It wasn't just weed that Frank was pilloried for. It was far more about the Colombian marching powder and inventive sexual antics.
Plenty in the business indulge in much the same way, but he just happened to get caught, not just once, but twice! It all came across as a bit sordid and grotty, and destroyed his career as a result.
Reginald Perrin was very good. However, Rising Damp was brilliant. Leonard Rossiter was a great actor.
Appropriate given what's come to light about him since?
You are right Leonard Frank liked playing games!!!!..🧚♀️🤪👅👄🌷🌻🌰🍆🌰🍑👍🤒🔮🧿
"romantic roles"? ...talk about a tenuous link.
1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive 1057am 27.6.24 reggie perrin? classic. communal tv never sounded so good. mass laughter. 30 years later. mass panic!!!
Unfortunately Trippers Day was a terrible comedy. A waste of Rossiter's talent.
“I didn’t get married until I was in my 40s” he was 34 when he married Josephine Tewson
You should have lived his life.
@@johnp515 why?
@@theelvisguru9490Because you know more about it 😉
Nothing about 2001 or Barry Lyndon.
Good grief!
1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive 1057am 27.6.24 this is true - single people are screwed by those on the make and those who like to allow others to starve....
They were very small parts and not what he was famous for.
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Comments on ‘1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive’ 11.8.24 0534am example, please...? i thought his la petomane was the most amusing film i had seen in a long time. and i still do find it funny. to be viewed every few years or so or if you have a visitor round who comprehends whisky and attics..... as for bit parts - the dude is even to be seen in 2001 space odyssey. strange, wouldn't you say? or maybe he was just mooching around the studios one day and they suggested he act such and such a bit part.... it has been known, i suppose....
@@johnp515 He was one of the few actors Kubrick actually wanted to work with more than once and that is very telling.
Also....he worked with Kubrick!
That is far more relevant than Joan Collins.
Le Petomane!
Oh the irony...the BBC would never make this type of comedy these days for fear of offending anyone.
1980: LEONARD ROSSITER looks back on his CAREER | Nationwide | BBC Archive 1053am 27.6.24 rik mayall trynna say frank bough. much to chris ryan's glee.... on a more literal note - i enjoyed this guy, Rossiter, from le petamane to Rigsby. pretty much hilarious.