Eric Chappell: Last News

Emmerdale actor Reece Dinsdale shared the news on Twitter, writing: "Just heard that Eric Chappell, the writer of Home To Roost, Rising Damp & many other shows died on Thursday.“Thank you for everything you did for me, Sir… your scripts were a complete joy to play.“Great times! My love & deepest sympathies to his friends and family."Rising Damp aired on ITV between 1974 and 1978 for four series.It was adapted from his stage show The Banana Box, which hit the West End in the early 1970s.And it later became a film, released in 1980, which starred Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour and Don Warrington, among other names.Eric was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire and worked as an auditor for the East Midlands Electricity Board for 22 years, before moving into writing.His writing even ended up in New York, when The Banana Box had a brief run at the Hudson Guild Theatre in the city in 1979. Eric went on to write for shows including The Squirrels, Duty Free, Fiddlers Three and Haggard.Following Reece's initial tweet, others left tributes too.Author Robert Harris said: "Our fathers worked together at a print factory in Grantham and used to swap stories about their sons.

ITV sitcom by Eric Chappell, which came to an end in 1978. Airing for four years, the series was an adaptation of Chappell's stage play The Banana Box. The series followed Rupert Rigsby (played by Leonard Rossiter), the seedy landlord of a run-down townhouse.

Eric Chappell, writer. Born: 25 September 1933 in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Died: 21 April 2022 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, aged 88For 22 years Eric Chappell beavered away in the offices of the local electricity board in the East Midlands, while spending his spare time writing the novels he would might open the door to fame and fortune only to amass a mountain of “no thank you” letters.

ICONIC writer Eric Chappell who created sitcoms Rising Damp and Home to Roost has died aged 88. The hit TV show creator won a Bafta in 1978 for Rising Damp which starred Leonard Rossiter and Frances de la tour.

Rising Damp followed the lives of a self-centered landlord and his unfortunate tenants in a rundown Victorian townhouse.The beloved British sitcom, written by Eric Chappell, first aired on our TV screens back in 1974 and was adapted from his 1973 stage play called The Banana box.The popular ITV comedy was set in Yorkshire (most likely Leeds) and ran for four years until its final episode on 8 May 1978.However, after this the tenant-based sitcom was then revived when it was adapted into a feature film in 1980.This week marks almost 42 years since to mark the occasion