Richard Beckinsale Richard Beckinsale Richard Arthur Beckinsale (6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979) was an English actor, who played Lennie Godber in the BBC sitcom "Porridge" (along with its sequel series "Going Straight") and Alan Moore in the British ITV sitcom "Rising Damp". He is the father of actresses Samantha Beckinsale and Kate Beckinsale. Beckinsale was born in Carlton, Nottinghamshire, to an Anglo-Burmese father, Arthur John Beckinsale, and an English mother, Maggie Barlow. He left Alderman White Secondary Modern School at 15 with ambitions to become an actor, so while working in numerous manual jobs he enrolled at a Nottingham adult
Steve Moore (comics) UK he wrote "Hulk" and "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." stories in "Hulk Comic". He also wrote several stories in "Warrior", including, as Pedro Henry, a revival of his Axel Pressbutton character from "Sounds". He was featured in the anthology "A1" (including a strip with fellow-Fortean Hunt Emerson on "Fortean Times" in #2). He wrote "Young Tom Strong" and "Jonni Future" in "Tom Strong's Terrific Tales", a 12 issue anthology series from Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line. He wrote the novelisation of the film "V for Vendetta", based on the comics of the same name, by Alan Moore and