Book description
Leonard Rossiter: Character Driven
The untold story of a comic
genius
Guy Adams
Whether he was playing seedy landlord Rupert Rigsby in Rising
Damp or frustrated suburban dreamer Reggie Perrin, Leonard Rossiter
gave us performances so iconic that they achieve timelessness. Now,
for the first time, Character Driven offers an in-depth account of
Rossiter's life and work. Through interviews with his daughter, widow,
lover and friends and colleagues, it will bring to life the man behind
the threadbare cardigan and manic grimace.
The book explores all of Rossiter's roles, revealing a man whose
single-mindedness and belief in his own abilities not only resulted in
brilliant performances, but could rub people up the wrong way too. We
meet Rossiter the private man -- an accomplished sportsman, a devoted
father and a loyal friend, yet someone who is alleged to have been
rather less than perfect in matters of the heart.
Exhaustive, affectionate, honest -- and long overdue, Character
Driven will finally give a personality to the man behind some of the
greatest comic performances of the twentieth century.
