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
Don Warrington which has been broadcast since 11 January 2010. Since 2011, Warrington has played Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in the hit BBC show "Death in Paradise". He also appeared as jazz musician Frederick J. Louden in a BBC radio production of "The Devil's Music", written by Alan Plater. In 2011, Warrington played the father of a suspected terrorist in the last series of the BBC drama "Waking the Dead". His film roles included the movie version of "Rising Damp" (1980), the Kenny Everett horror comedy "Bloodbath at the House of Death" (1983), Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" (1996), Peter Greenaway's "8½ Women" (1999) and