Jeremy Lloyd

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Jeremy Lloyd, OBE (22 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an English writer, screenwriter, poet, and actor best known as co-author and writer of many popular British sitcoms, including Are You Being Given? Allo 'Allo!'

Early years

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 start of World War II. He was sent to live with his grandmother in Manchester as an infant and never saw his parents, who reportedly thought him to be a failure. In 1943, his father was kicked out of a private preparatory school.

Lloyd spent time as a junior assistant in Simpsons of Piccadilly's menswear department, as well as several of the characters in Are You Being Served? From his recollections of his time there, he was drawn. He was also a traveling painter and believed his early jobs gave him a better education than a university could have afforded.

Personal life

Lloyd's first marriage, 1955 to model Dawn Bailey, lasted seven years. He was briefly engaged to Charlotte Rampling after their marriage ended. Lloyd married actress Joanna Lumley in May 1970, but the marriage was ended in September of the same year. Collette Northrop married actress Collette Northrop in 1992. Lloyd married Elizabeth "Lizzy" Moberly in August 2014.

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Career

Lloyd began writing in 1958 before making his film debut in 1960 in School for Scoundrels, and appeared in numerous film and television comedies during the 1960s and 1970s. During Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In's 1969-70 television season, he was a regular performer. Joanna Lumley, an actor who had just finished the season, was back in England. A decision had to be made whether he will return to the United States for the start of the new season or remain in the UK and marry Lumley. He never returned to the United States.

Lloyd is uncredited as a tall man dancing at the disco with Beatles drummer Ringo Starr in A Hard Day's Night (1964).

In Help!

He is a restauranteur who is also uncredited (1965). He shot a scene with Peter Sellers in The Magic Christian in 1969, which co-starred Ringo Starr. Lloyd can be seen in a boardroom meeting with marketing slogans for a new model, as "the gang's all here back seat." In 1967, he appeared in "From Venus With Love" as the eccentric chimney sweep, Berthram Fortesque Wynthrope-Smythe, aka Bert Smith.

Are You Being Served? Lloyd's first major success as a comedy writer was with Are You Being Served? He began working with David Croft in 1972, on which he collaborated. He and Croft produced 'Allo 'Allo!,' which was equally popular in the UK, and Grace & Favour's, a spinoff of Are You Being Served?, which premiered in 1992. In 1980, Lloyd wrote the poem/lyrics for the famous Captain Beaky album and books.

Lloyd released his autobiography in 1993, titled with a word from "Allo!" I Shall Says This Only Once" (BBC Books: ISBN 978-5633-6203-6).

Lloyd was the subject of what was regarded as a metropolitan legend, who had been invited to a dinner party at the home of Sharon Tate on the night discovering that she had been murdered by Charles Manson's followers. However, the tale was confirmed as true when Emma Freud was interviewed by Emma Freud on BBC Radio 4's programme, Loose Ends, on December 10, 2011.

In the 2013 New Year Honours, Lloyd was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

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