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
Kelly Jones (Miss Alabama) performance, Jones graduated from Samford University with a bachelor's degree in December 1999. While at Samford, she was inducted into the Kappa Chapter of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. She then enrolled in a graduate program at The University of Alabama studying music education. Before becoming Miss Alabama in 2001, Jones worked as a fragrance model, a waitress, and a piano teacher. After graduating, she owned and operated a music academy in Augusta, Georgia. In 2008, she was hired as the administrator for the Gadsden Community School for the Arts in Gadsden, Alabama. Her parents are Jerry Wilson Jones and