Hugh Lloyd

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{{short description|British actor (1923-2008)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Hugh Lloyd
| image = File:Hugh Lloyd actor.png
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|4|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Chester]], [[England]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|7|14|1923|4|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Worthing]], [[Sussex]], England
| birth_name = Hugh Lewis Lloyd
| occupation = [[Actor]]
| yearsactive = 1957–2005
| spouse = Neredah Anne Rodgers (1948-1950)

José Stewart<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/chester-born-comedy-star-hugh-5236325|title=Chester born comedy star Hugh Lloyd dies|website=www.cheshire-live.co.uk}}</ref>

Mavis Polley (1950s-1960s)

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Shän Davies (1983–2008)

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'''Hugh Lewis Lloyd''' {{post-nominals|GBR|MBE}} (22 April 1923 – 14 July 2008) was an [[English people|English]] actor who made his name in television and film comedy from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was best known for appearances in ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', ''[[Hugh and I]]'' and other [[sitcom]]s of the 1960s.

==Life==
Hugh Lloyd was born in [[Chester]] and attended [[the King's School, Chester|the King's School]]. After leaving school he spent two years as a newspaper reporter on the ''Chester Chronicle''.<ref name=guardian>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jul/16/television.television|title=Obituary: Hugh Lloyd|first=Dennis|last=Barker|date=15 July 2008|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>

His first professional acting appearance was with [[Entertainments National Service Association|ENSA]] and he worked in repertory theatres until 1957, when he made the first of 25 appearances in the television series ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]''. Many years after its first transmission, he is still remembered as the character in the episode entitled ''[[The Blood Donor]]'' in which he forgets to return [[Tony Hancock]]'s wine gums.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/hugh-lloyd-1-1080681|title=Hugh Lloyd|website=www.scotsman.com}}</ref>

He appeared with [[Terry Scott]] in the series ''[[Hugh and I]]'' and ''[[The Gnomes of Dulwich]]''; with [[Peggy Mount]] in ''[[Lollipop Loves Mr. Mole]]''; in ''Jury'' and ''[[You Rang M'Lord?]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1367370/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Scott, Terry (1927-1994) Biography|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> He created the series ''Lord Tramp'' (1977), written by [[Michael Pertwee]], in which he also starred.<ref name=guardian/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b73ba5836|title=Lord Tramp (1977)|website=BFI}}</ref> The ''[[Comedy Playhouse]]'' episode, ''Hughie'', in which he starred as a recently released prisoner following the ending of ''Hugh and I'', was unsuccessful.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ca5f8e76ac1b436b802b8373cdbd66fb|title=Comedy Playhouse: Hughie|date=19 May 1967|issue=2270|pages=58|via=BBC Genome}}</ref>

Television plays in which he appeared include ''[[She's Been Away]]'' (starring [[Peggy Ashcroft]]); ''[[The Play on One#The Dunroamin' Rising|The Dunroamin' Rising]]''; ''A Matter Of Will'' (with [[Brenda Bruce]]); and a number of [[Alan Bennett]] plays, such as ''A Visit From Miss Protheroe'' (with [[Patricia Routledge]]), ''Say Something Happened'' (with [[Julie Walters]] and [[Thora Hird]]), and ''Me, I'm Afraid Of Virginia Woolf''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f891197|title=Hugh Lloyd|website=BFI}}</ref> He played Goronwy Jones in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]'' and appeared in numerous television light entertainment shows, including [[Victoria Wood]], [[Jimmy Cricket]] and ''Babble Quiz''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/deltabannermen/detail.shtml|title=BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - Delta and the Bannermen - Details|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>

On the [[West End theatre|West End]] stage, Lloyd spent three seasons at the [[Windmill Theatre]]; a year at the [[Novello Theatre|Strand Theatre]] in ''[[When We Are Married]]''; two years in ''[[No Sex Please, We're British]]'' at the Strand; and at the [[Lyric Theatre (London)|Lyric Theatre]] in ''[[Tonight at 8.30]]''. He was part of the [[Royal National Theatre]] company under [[Ian McKellen]], in ''[[The Critic (play)|The Critic]]'', ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' and ''[[The Duchess of Malfi]]''. He also performed in over twenty pantomimes.

Lloyd met his fourth or fifth wife, [[journalist]] [[Shan Lloyd]], at Allen's restaurant in [[London]]'s [[West End of London|West End]], in 1978.<ref name=argus>{{cite news |title= Actor's widow dies at just 55 |url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3981550.Actor_s_widow_dies_at_just_55/|work= [[The Argus (Brighton)]] |date=2008-12-16 |access-date=2008-12-26}}</ref> Lloyd, who was in his fifties at the time, had been married and divorced three times before meeting Shan.<ref name=argus/> In his [[autobiography]], he described his future wife as "a scatty, blondehaired [[Fleet Street]] [[tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] journalist".<ref name=argus/> Hugh and Shan married in 1983. The couple moved to [[Worthing]] in 2003 and remained married until his death on 14 July 2008.<ref name=argus/> Shan Lloyd died in December 2008, just five months after Hugh Lloyd.<ref name=argus/>

Lloyd was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in the 2005 [[New Year Honours List]] for his services to drama and charity. He died on 14 July 2008 at his home in Dolphin Court, Grand Avenue, [[West Worthing]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2403860/Hugh-Lloyd.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=Hugh Lloyd | date=14 July 2008 | access-date=4 May 2010}}</ref>

==Appearances==

===Films===
*''[[The Rebel (1961 film)|The Rebel]]'' (1961) - Man on Train
*''[[Go to Blazes (1962 film)|Go to Blazes]]'' (1962) - Fireman
*''[[It's Trad Dad!]]'' (1962) - Usher
*''[[She'll Have To Go]]'' (1962) - Macdonald
*''[[The Mouse on the Moon]]'' (1963) - Plumber
*''[[Father Came Too!]]'' (1963) - Mary, Queen of Scots
*''[[The Punch and Judy Man]]'' (1963) - Edward Cox
*''[[Just for Fun (film)|Just for Fun]]'' (1963) - Burglar
*''[[Runaway Railway]]'' (1965) - Disposals Man
*''[[White Cargo (1973 film)|White Cargo]]'' (1973) - Chumley
*''[[Intimate Games]]'' (1976) - John's Father
*''[[Quadrophenia (film)|Quadrophenia]]'' (1979) - Mr. Cale
*''[[Venom (1981 film)|Venom]]'' (1982) - Taxi Driver
*''[[She's Been Away]]'' (1989) - George
*''[[The Fool (1990 film)|The Fool]]'' (1990) - Viscount
*''[[August (2008 film)|August]]'' (1996) - Thomas Prosser
*''[[The Clandestine Marriage]]'' (1998) - Reverend Parker
*''[[Alice in Wonderland (1999 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1999) - Fishface Footman
*''[[Girl from Rio (2001 film)|Girl from Rio]]'' (2001) - Albert

===Television===
*''[[Doc Martin]]'' (2005) - "Aromatherapy" (Season 2, Episode 4) - Vernon Cooke
*''[[Foyle's War]]'' (2002) - "Eagle Day" (Season 1, Episode 4) - Frank Watson
*''[[My Hero (British TV series)|My Hero]]'' (2000) - "My Hero Christmas" (Season 1, Episode 7) - Santa
*''[[So What Now?]]'' (2001) - "The House Guest" (Episode 4) - Frank
*''[[Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000 TV series)|Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)]]'' (2000) - "A Man of Substance" (Series 1, Episode 6)
*''[[Great Expectations (1999 film)|Great Expectations]]'' (1999) - The Aged P
*''[[Cider with Rosie (film)|Cider with Rosie]]'' (1998) - Joseph Brown
*''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]] Pig in the Middle (1997) - Archie Birley
*''[[Oh, Doctor Beeching!]]'' (1997) - Ernie Bennett
*''[[Blue Heaven (Channel 4 TV series)|Blue Heaven]]'' (1994) - cleaner
*''[[You Rang, M'Lord?]]'' (BBC1, 1991) Selfridge, Sir Ralph Shawcross's butler
*''[[Boon (TV series)|Boon]]'' (1991) - "Trial And Error" (1991) - George Jenkins
*''[[Victoria Wood (1989)|Victoria Wood]]'' (1989) - ''[[Over To Pam]]'' - Jim
*''[[The Play on One]]'' - ''[[The Play on One#The Dunroamin' Rising|The Dunroamin' Rising]]'' (1988) - Wattie
*''[[Doctor Who]]'' - ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]'' (1987) - Goronwy Jones
*''[[Victoria Wood As Seen On TV]]'' (1986) - Billy
*''[[That's My Boy (1981 TV series)|That's My Boy]]'' (1984) - "Unfair Dismissal" (Season 3, Episode 5) - Jim Barnes
*''[[Cat's Eyes]]'' (1985) - "Something Nasty Down Below" - Charlie
*Last of the Summer Wine - The Waist Land (1983) - Alex
*''[[A Visit From Miss Protheroe]]'' (1978)
*''[[Lord Tramp]]'' (1975) - Lord Tramp
*''[[Lollipop (television)|Lollipop]]'' (1972)
*''[[Lollipop Loves Mr. Mole]]'' (1971)
*''[[The Gnomes of Dulwich]]'' (1969)
*''[[Hugh and I]]'' (1962)
*''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' / ''Hancock'' (1957–61) - various roles
*''[[Great Scott - It's Maynard!]]'' (1955-56)

== References ==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|id=0516005|name=Hugh Lloyd}}
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2403860/Hugh-Lloyd.html Obituary] in ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]''
*Anthony Hayward [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hugh-lloyd-popular-comedy-actor-who-found-fame-in-hancocks-half-hour-868659.html "Obituary: Hugh Lloyd"], ''[[The Independent]]'', 16 July 2008
*[http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2008/07/comic-actor-hugh-lloyd-dies/ Obituary] in ''[[The Stage]]''


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