Jeremy Lloyd
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Lloyd c. 2009
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| Born | John Jeremy Lloyd 22 July 1930 Danbury, Essex, England, UK |
| Died | 23 December 2014 (aged 84) London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Scriptwriter |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1958–2014 |
| Genre | Television |
| Notable works |
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1969-1970) Are You Being Served? (1972–85) Come Back Mrs Noah (1977–78) Oh, Happy Band! (1980) 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–92) Grace and Favour (1992–93) Which Way to the War (1994) |
| Spouse | Dawn Bailey (m. 1955–62) Joanna Lumley (m. 1970-1970/1971; dissolved) Collette Northrop (m. 1992-?) Elizabeth Moberly (m. 2014 (4 months); his death) |
John Jeremy Lloyd, OBE (22 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an English writer, screenwriter, author, poet and actor, best known as co-author and writer of several successful British sitcoms, including Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo!.
John Jeremy Lloyd was born in Danbury, Essex to a mother who had been a dancer, and a petroleum engineer father who served as an officer in the Royal Engineers at the beginning of World War II. As a child he was sent to live with his grandmother in Manchester and rarely saw his parents, who he claimed had seen him as a failure. His father withdrew him from a private preparatory school in 1943. He then worked as a junior assistant in the menswear department at Simpsons of Piccadilly and many of the characters depicted in Are You Being Served were drawn from his recollections of his time there. He was also a travelling paint salesman and he believed that his early jobs gave him a better education than a university could have provided.
Lloyd began his career as a writer in 1958 before making his film debut two years later in 1960 in School for Scoundrels, and appeared in numerous film and television comedies during the 1960s and 1970s. Notably, he was a regular performer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In during the 1969–70 television season. He was lauded in America where they loved his patrician depiction of an upper-class Englishman. Back in England after the season had been completed he met Joanna Lumley. A decision had to be made as to whether he would return to America for the start of the new season or remain in the UK and marry Lumley. He never returned to America. In A Hard Day's Night (1964) Lloyd is uncredited as a tall man dancing at the disco with Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. In Help! (1965), he is a restaurant patron, also uncredited. In 1969, he filmed a scene with Peter Sellers for The Magic Christian, which co-starred Ringo Starr. Lloyd can be seen in a boardroom meeting offering marketing slogans for a really big car, and suggests "the gang's all here back seat." In 1967 he played the eccentric chimney sweep, Berthram Fortesque Wynthrope-Smythe, aka Bert Smith, in The Avengers episode, From Venus With Love.
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