Date of Birth

22 April 1923, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK

Date of Death

14 July 2008, Worthing, Sussex, England, UK

He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Drama and Charity.

His first job was as a Reporter on the "Chester Chronicle" (1939-42). He had previously been turned down by the RAF because he suffered from hay fever and MI5 because he was considered too young to undertake espionage work.

Was married four times, finally to Shän Davies, who was thirty years his junior.

As a lifelong Liberal he was once surprised to be asked to appear in a party political broadcast for the Conservative Party. He said he would rather jump off Beachy Head.

Son of a tobacco salesman and later tobacco factory manager and his teacher wife. Lloyd had a methodist upbring which influenced his choice of roles throughout his career, turning down roles that he considered offensive.

Attended the Queen's School kindergarten in Chester, and at the age of eight wrote, directed and starred in his own pantomime. However his father wanted him to have a "proper" job to fall back on, after leaving the King's school.

Following his rejection by the RAF and MI5, he went on a radio-operator's course for the Merchant Navy at Colwyn Bay, Wales and then onto entertaining troops around the world for ENSA as a member of George Thomas's Globetrotters. This lasted for three years until the war ended.

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