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
Samantha Beckinsale in an episode of Thames Television's "Never the Twain". Shortly after this, she was given the role of Lesley in the final three series of Thames Television's "Shelley". In 1994, she was chosen by the BBC to play the role of Gillian in the sitcom "Time After Time" which lasted a year. In 1997, Beckinsale starred as Jilly Howell in the short-lived sitcom "Get Well Soon" and in 1998 she was chosen by LWT to play the role of Gillian Monroe in the short-lived sitcom "Duck Patrol" with Richard Wilson. Samantha Beckinsale Samantha Jane Beckinsale (born 23 July 1966) is