Video Watchdog magazine described him as occupying "a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics,"[1] and in 2020 he was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards Hall of Fame.
[4] His stage play, Bram Stoker's Dracula, was produced at London's Pentameters Theatre in 1997, marking the original novel's centenary, and subsequently went on tour.
[3] As a stage director, Rigby's revival of Sylvia Rayman's 1951 play Women of Twilight opened at London's White Bear Theatre in 2013 and transferred to Pleasance Islington the following year.
[13] In 2010 he was series consultant on the three-part BBC Four documentary A History of Horror,[14] also making a brief appearance as Dracula in the opening episode.
[16] Also on screen, he played psychic researcher Harry Price in the part-animated 2017 feature film Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England.