Leonard Rossiter was an English actor known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series Rising Damp , and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin . These roles followed a long and distinguished career in the theatre. Rossiter was born in Liverpool, the son of Elizabeth and John Rossiter. He lived over the barber shop which had been owned by his father. He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate Grammar School and it was his ambition to go to university to read modern languages and become a teacher. His father, a voluntary ambulanceman... during the Second World War, was killed in an air-raid in 1942. Having thus to support his mother, Rossiter was unable to take up the place he had been offered by Liverpool University. After being demobbed , he went to work as an insurance clerk in the claims and accidents department of the Commercial Union Insurance Company for six years.
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| Birthdate: | October 21, 1926 |
| Birthplace: | Liverpool |
| Date of death: | October 5, 1984 |
| Height: | 5' 9" |
| Also known as: | Len Rossiter |