Leonard Rossiter — Actor (21)
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Water (1985) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Water
director: Dick Clement actor: Michael Caine / Valerie Perrine …
other title: Acqua in bocca / Vandskræk …
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
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King Rat (1965)
King Rat
director: Bryan Forbes actor: George Segal / James Fox …
other title: Qualcuno da odiare / Man kaldte ham King …
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
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Le Petomane (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Le Petomane
director: Ian MacNaughton actor: Leonard Rossiter / Madelaine Bellamy …
other title: Le Pétomane
The incredibly true story of the legendary French entertainer Joseph Pujol, who performed impersonations with his self-described 'elastic anus' and a surfeit of wind.
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Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Trail of the Pink Panther
director: Blake Edwards actor: David Niven / Peter Sellers …
other title: Sulle orme della Pantera Rosa / På sporet af den lyserøde panter …
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
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The Factory (1981) IMDb TMDB
The Factory
director: Gerald Blake actor: Leonard Rossiter / Benjamin Whitrow …
A factory's workforce is dwindling as divisions between the workers and management widen.
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The Devil's Eggshell (1966) IMDb TMDB
The Devil's Eggshell
director: Gareth Davies actor: Leonard Rossiter / Bernard Hepton …
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy.
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The Witches (1966) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Witches
director: Cyril Frankel actor: Joan Fontaine / Kay Walsh …
other title: Creatura del diavolo / Der Teufel tanzt um Mitternacht …
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
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The Whisperers (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Whisperers
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Edith Evans / Eric Portman …
other title: Flüsternde Wände / Les Chuchoteurs …
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
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Britannia Hospital (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Britannia Hospital
director: Lindsay Anderson actor: Graham Crowden / Leonard Rossiter …
other title: Hospital Britannia
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
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The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968) IMDb TMDB NeoDB
The Year of the Sex Olympics
director: Michael Elliott actor: Leonard Rossiter / Brian Cox …
other title: 性奥林匹克之年 / 性奧林匹克之年
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) IMDb TMDB
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
director: Blake Edwards actor: Peter Sellers / Herbert Lom …
other title: La pantera rosa sfida l'ispettore Clouseau / Den lyserøde panter slår igen …
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Billy Liar (1963) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Billy Liar
director: John Schlesinger actor: Tom Courtenay / Rodney Bewes …
other title: Billy il bugiardo / Geliebter Spinner …
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
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Oliver! (1968) IMDb TMDB Douban
Oliver!
director: Carol Reed actor: Ron Moody / Shani Wallis …
other title: Oliver ! / Oliver …
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.