Cast & creator
Richard Beckinsale
Best known for Play for Today, ITV Playhouse, ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Richard Beckinsale was an English actor, best known for his roles as Lennie Godber in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge and Alan Moore in the British ITV sitcom Rising Damp. He is the father of actresses Samantha Beckinsale and Kate Beckinsale. He died of a congenital heart defect at the age of just thirty one in 1979.
12
film credits
14
television credits
26
1956–2022 · acting roles
7.0
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (26)
Showing 26 of 26 credits
Play for Today
Michael Robson
1970
ITV Playhouse
Johnny
1967
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Pete
1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Dermot
1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Angus MacFee
1969
Justice
Terry Watson
1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Richard Frobisher
1971
Rising Damp
Alan
1974
Porridge
Lennie Godber
1974
Going Straight
Lenny Godber
1978
Armchair Theatre
Lewis
1956
The Donati Conspiracy
Robert Sadler
1973
Three for All
Jet Bone
1975
Bloomers
1979
The Floater
Michael Robson
1975
Bloody Kids
Detective Ritchie (uncredited; Died before filming completed)
1980
The Lovers
1970
Porridge: No Way Out
Godber
1975
Porridge
Lennie Godber
1979
Porridge: The Desperate Hours
Godber
1976If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
The Young Man
1974
Rentadick
Hobbs
1972
The Lovers!
Geoffrey Scrimshaw
1973
Last Summer
Johnny
1977
Comedy Classics: Porridge
(archive footage)
2022
Detective Waiting
Lewis
1971