Jeremy Lloyd

Jeremy Lloyd (born 22 July 1930) is an English actor and screenwriter, best known as the co-author of several successful British sitcoms.

The gangly Lloyd made his film debut in 1960 in School for Scoundrels, and appeared in numerous film and television comedies during the 1960s and 1970s, notably Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as a regular performer in 1969-70. His first major success as a comedy writer was with Are You Being Served? in 1972, on which he worked with David Croft. They subsequently produced 'Allo 'Allo!, which was equally popular in the UK, and Are You Being Served? spinoff Grace & Favour in 1992. Jeremy also wrote the poem/lyrics for the popular Captain Beaky album and books in 1980.

He has been the subject of a persistent urban legend which claims that he was invited to a dinner party at the home of Sharon Tate on the night that she was murdered by followers of Charles Manson. Lloyd's first marriage (1955) to the model Dawn Bailey lasted seven years. After the marriage was dissolved, Lloyd was briefly married to the actress Joanna Lumley.

Trivia

Lloyd appeared in A Hard Day's Night and Help!, two films starring The Beatles, and also had a brief role in The Magic Christian, which starred Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. Starr appeared in an episode of Laugh-In, recalling the movies he and Lloyd were in together, while Lloyd looked at him as a stranger, saying "Sorry, you can't expect me to remember everybody."

External links

• Jeremy Lloyd at the Internet Movie Database

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