# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-rossiter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:47:06.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-rossiter"
name: "Leonard Rossiter"
slug: "leonard-rossiter"
description: "Leonard Rossiter was an English actor. He had a long career in the theatre but achieved his highest profile for his television comedy roles starring as Rupert Rigsby in the ITV series Rising Damp from 1974 to 1978, and Reginald Perrin in the BBC's The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979."
tagline: "British actor (1926-1984)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Leonard_Rossiter.jpg/330px-Leonard_Rossiter.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-10-21"
deathDate: "1984-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.31700133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744436/"
    handle:    "nm0744436"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لئونارد راسیتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonard Rossiter"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Rossiter"
    title: "Leonard Rossiter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Rossiter"
    title: "Leonard Rossiter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Rossiter"
    title: "Leonard Rossiter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "لئونارد راسیتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonard Rossiter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Rossiter"
    title: "Leonard Rossiter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Rossiter"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/30b78694-918b-4ac2-9095-6b06dbdadc94"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Leonard Rossiter"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump