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 (poet) is widely known for his regular articles in "The Sunday Business Post", and is the author of the best-selling "Tax Magic." Alan Moore (poet) Alan Moore (born 1960, Dublin), is an Irish writer and poet, published by Anvil Press Poetry. His first collection of poems, "Opia" (1986) was a UK Poetry Book Society Choice, a distinction for a first collection. Michael Kenneally complimented Moore's creativity in "Poetry in contemporary Irish Literature". His second collection, "How Now!" (2010) was described as "a searingly autobiographical book which bears comparison with Paul Durcan's "Daddy, Daddy"," and "a fine cumulative portrait of growing up