Career
He has been described in Video Watchdog magazine as occupying "a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics."
In his parallel career as an actor, Rigby played Kenneth Horne throughout the eighteen-month run of the West End hit Round the Horne. Revisited (2003-2005). The production was adapted for British Broadcasting Corporation Four and featured in the 2004 Royal Variety Performance.
In 2008-2009 he reprised the role in a new stage show called Round the Horne - Unseen and Uncut and in the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio special Twice Ken is Plenty.
Rigby"s stage adaptation of Dracula toured during 1997, the original novel"s centenary year, and in 2013-2014 he directed a successful revival of the forgotten Sylvia Rayman play Women of Twilight. In 2010 he was series consultant on the three-part British Broadcasting Corporation Four documentary A History of Horror, also making a brief appearance as Dracula in the opening episode. Two years later he was programme consultant on the feature-length follow-up, Horror Europa.
