PAULA WILCOX (co star - "The Lovers")
"very endearing, very sweet, and very innocent."
SAMANTHA BECKINSALE (daughter with 1st wife)
"I had numerous women telling me how much they fancied my dad, even when their husbands were there actually, and sort of describing what he was wearing doing certain things and posters they had of him on their walls and stuff like that."
STEPHEN FREARS (Director)
"Actually he was a very beautiful man, a very sexy man, and he'd take you to one side and he'd say "I'm an eigth Burmese" and he'd show you his cheekbones, and they were just breathtaking."
RONNIE BARKER (co-star - "Porridge" and "Going Straight")
"That's what gave him those wonderful eyes, those almond eyes. And I'm straight as a die I'm here to tell you!"
KATE BECKINSALE (daughter with 2nd wife)
"I've watched his programmes obsessively as a little kid. I think after he died y'know it was that thing of thinking my god I didn't... you know that thing of wanting to sort of have the flavour of the person so much and being in the weird position of having tonnes of episodes of stuff of him and watching it in order to get some clue in a funny way you know."
ERIC CHAPPEL (writer - "Rising Damp")
"I think Richard is remembered because he was an original. I mean one still thinks where are you going to get another Richard Beckinsale. We've never seen anything like it before or since."