{"id":14350,"date":"2022-04-24T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T11:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1631522"},"modified":"2022-04-24T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T12:02:11","slug":"rising-damp-creator-eric-chappell-dies-aged-88","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/rising-damp-creator-eric-chappell-dies-aged-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Damp creator Eric Chappell dies, aged 88"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Naomi Gordon\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 24 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Eric Chapell, the creator of classic TV sitcoms Rising Damp and Home to Roost, has died aged 88.<\/p>\n

Chapell, who was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, in 1933, won a Bafta in 1978 for Rising Damp, starring Leonard Rossiter, Don Warrington and Frances de la Tour. The comedy was set in a seedy bedsit and followed its boastful, cowardly and racist landlord Rigsby, whose conceits were debunked by his long-suffering tenants in each episode.<\/p>\n

Having previously worked as for 22 years as an auditor for the East Midlands Electricity Board, Chapelle turned his talents to writing plays, with his Yorkshire-based story The Banana Box was staged at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1970.<\/p>\n

Just heard that Eric Chappell, the writer of #HomeToRoost<\/a>, #RisingDamp<\/a> & many other shows died on Thursday.Thank you for everything you did for me, Sir\u2026 your scripts were a complete joy to play.Great times!My love & deepest sympathies to his friends & family RIP Eric ???? pic.twitter.com\/WfB4jrbpy9<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Reece Dinsdale (@reece_dinsdale) April 23, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>