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
Child Genius (UK TV series) subject. In October 2016, a celebrity edition aired on Channel 4 as part of "Stand Up to Cancer UK". Celebrities who took part were Aisling Bea, Alan Carr, Rachel Riley and Krishnan Guru-Murthy. Child Genius (UK TV series) Child Genius is British reality competition series produced by Wall to Wall Media, broadcast on Channel 4. There have been five series, one broadcast each year since 2013. The show involves a group of child prodigies competing a series of tasks to gain the title of "child genius". Simon Blair acted as quizmaster for the first three series and since 2016, the