'It was hard not to stare at him all the time': inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter by Catherine Shoard

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 A few years ago, the actor Robert Duvall was being interviewed for this paper when, apropos of nothing, he cited Leonard Rossiter as the finest performer he'd ever seen. Four decades after Rossi…

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