Rising Damp de la Tour, Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington. Rossiter played Rupert Rigsby (originally Rooksby in the stage play), the miserly, seedy, and ludicrously self-regarding landlord of a run-down Victorian townhouse who rents out his shabby bedsits to a variety of tenants. Beckinsale played Alan Moore, a long-haired, naive, good-natured and amiable medical student who occupies the top room. Frances de la Tour played Ruth Jones, a fey, whimsical spinster and college administrator who rents another room, with whom Rigsby is in love and to whom he proposes in the last episode. In the pilot episode, a new tenant arrives. Philip
The Devil in Miss Jones for all eternity, thirsting for a climax she will never achieve by her own means. Spelvin was 36 when she made the film. "The Devil in Miss Jones" was one of her first acting appearances following a career as a chorus girl on Broadway where she was featured in productions such as "Cabaret", "Guys and Dolls", "Sweet Charity", and "The Pajama Game". Her role in "The Devil In Miss Jones" was typical of her career, as she often played celibate spinsters who have a sexual awakening, then become sex fiends (e.g. "Sleepyhead"). She also meets a tragic end in several