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
Alan Moore Be Your Mirror' music festival in London. A planned future project is an occult textbook known as "The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic", written with Steve Moore. It will be published by Top Shelf in "the future". In September 2016, he published a novel called "Jerusalem", which is also set in Northampton. Alan Moore has joined the Occupy Comics Kickstarter project. Moore contributed an essay on comics as counter-culture. He continues to work with Kevin O'Neill on their "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" spin-off, "Nemo". Avatar Press announced a twelve-part series with Jacen Burrows called "Providence" on H. P.