Editing Jeremy Lloyd (section)

==Career==
Lloyd began his career as a writer in 1958 before making his film debut two years later in 1960 in ''[[School for Scoundrels (1960 film)|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. Back in England, after he completed the season, he met actress [[Joanna Lumley]]. A decision had to be made as to whether he would return to the U.S. for the start of the new season or remain in the UK and marry Lumley. He never returned to the United States.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

In ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (1964) Lloyd is uncredited as a tall man dancing at the disco with Beatles drummer [[Ringo Starr]]. In ''[[Help! (film)|Help!]]'' (1965), he is a restaurant patron, also uncredited. In 1969, he filmed a scene with [[Peter Sellers]] for ''[[The Magic Christian (film)|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 (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode, "[[From Venus with Love (The Avengers)|From Venus With Love]]".<ref name="imdb"/>

Lloyd's first major success as a comedy writer was with ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' in 1972, on which he worked with [[David Croft (TV producer)|David Croft]].<ref name="imdb">{{IMDb name|id=0516027|name=Jeremy Lloyd}}</ref> He and Croft subsequently produced ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'', which was equally popular in the UK, and a spinoff of ''Are You Being Served?'', ''[[Grace & Favour]]'', which aired in 1992.<ref name="imdb"/> Lloyd wrote the poem/lyrics for the popular ''[[Captain Beaky and His Band|Captain Beaky]]'' album and books in 1980.<ref name=death/>

In 1993 Lloyd published his [[autobiography]], titled with a phrase from '''Allo 'Allo!'', called ''Listen Very Carefully—I Shall Say this Only Once'' (BBC Books: {{ISBN|978-0-5633-6203-6}}).<ref name=autobiography />

Lloyd was the subject of what was considered an [[urban legend]], that he had been invited to a dinner party at the home of [[Sharon Tate]] on the night that she was murdered by followers of [[Charles Manson]]. However, the story was verified as true when the octogenarian was interviewed by [[Emma Freud]] on the [[BBC Radio 4]] programme, ''[[Loose Ends (radio)|Loose Ends]]'', on 10 December 2011.

Lloyd was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to British comedy.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60367|date=29 December 2012|page=12 |supp=y}}</ref>