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Jeremy Lloyd

JEREMY LLOYD

  (1930 - 2014)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Alexandra Cann Representation  (estate)

John Jeremy Lloyd was born in Danbury, Essex on July 22, 1930. He died on December 22, 2014, aged 84. The son of an army colonel and a dancing Tiller girl. He left school early and did a number of dead-end jobs. at age 23 he successfully submitted a story to Pinewood Film Studios. It was turned into a film called WHaT a WHOPPeR starring Adam Faith. This helped Lloyd to get work in television and he wrote for several successful BBC shows including the children's show CRaCKeRJaCK and the BILLY COTTON BaND SHOW. appearing in the latter as an upper class twit led to his being offered his first film role in the SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDReLS. He then appeared in THOSe MaGNIFICeNT MeN IN theIR FLYING MaCHINeS, DOCTOR IN CLOVeR, MaN IN the MOON, We JOINeD the NaVY, a VeRY IMPORTant PeRSON and the LIQUIDaTOR plus television roles in the aVeNGeRS, aFTeRNOON OF a NYMPH and others. at the same time he continued writing, contributing ninety episodes to the DICKIe HeNDeRSON SHOW. He also appeared for three years as Captain Cook in the musical ROBeRT aND Elizabeth and used some of his spare time to write poems about animals. Keith Michell offered to illustrate them and thus was born the best-selling children's book, CaPTaIN BeaKY aND HIS BaND. Soon afterwards Harold Robbins invited him to Hollywood to work on a major film project, but he missed his fiancee Charlotte Rampling too much and returned to england to play in a version of the FOUR MUSKeTeeRS at Drury Lane. However, he was agin invited to Hollywood to appear in and write for ROWaN aND MaRTIN's LaUGH IN, with Goldie Hawn. On returning to the UK, he became married for a short time to Joanna Lumley and they played a couple in the television sitcom called IT's aWFULLY BaD FOR YOUR eYeS DaRLING. She suggested to him that he should write a TV show based on one of his many jobs and he chose his time as a suit salesman at Simpson's of Piccadilly (now gone). aRe YOU BeING SeRVeD was co-written with David Croft, which proved to be one of Britain's most successful television exports. In the 1980s, Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft wrote another sitcom 'aLLO, 'aLLO, which was a tremendous hit and ran for 9 years. Other work has included OH HaPPY BaND and COMe BaCK MRS NOaH, work on a detective series, WHODUNIT, books including the aDVeNTUReS OF CaPTaIN DaNGeRFIeLD, and CaPTaIN CaT aND the CaROL SINGeRS

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         Allo 'Allo         Are You Being Served         Business Affairs         Captain Beaky's Musical Christmas         Crooks Tour         Heaven's Up         Keeping Down With the Joneses         Kept         Who's the Daddy?         Wimbledon

Allo 'Allo

Allo 'Allo
written by David Croft And Jeremy Lloyd

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written by David Croft And Jeremy Lloyd

1st Produced:
London Palladium    2000

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Based on the hugely popular TV comedy series, the stage version of 'allo 'allo follows the adventures of Rene, the hapless cafe owner in war-tom occupied France, as he and his wife, edith, struggle to keep for themselves a priceless portrait stolen by the Nazis and kept in a sausage in their cellar. Rene is hiding two British airmen and is endeavouring, with the help of the Resistance, to repatriate them. However, communications with London through a wireless disguised as a cockatoo add to the many embarrasments he endures in the company of his patrons. Matters come to a head with the news that the Fuhrer is to visit the town and the cafe becomes filled with tricksters intending to impersonate Hitler before the event. Rene will need all the wit he can muster to save his cafe and his life. . . !   Samuel French, London, 2000

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978-0573018787

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Genre:
Comedy

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Are You Being Served

Are You Being Served
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written by David Croft And Jeremy Lloyd

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Samuel French, London,    978-0573019630

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Business Affairs

Synopsis:
Two northern businessmen book a London hotel suite, hoping to sell their trucking firm to foreign buyers for two million pounds. To help the deal along they book two ladies of the night to keep the buyers happy. When their wives pop in to wish them luck, they find out about the girls and are outraged - even more so when the foreign visitors mistake them for call girls, but, with so much at stake, they play along to help secure the deal without giving away their true identity - or anything else!

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written by John Chapman And Jeremy Lloyd

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Captain Beaky's Musical Christmas

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1st Produced:
Apollo, London    1981

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Crooks Tour

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written by John Chapman And Jeremy Lloyd

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Heaven's Up

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Music By Jim Parker

1st Produced:
Playhouse, London    1990

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Genre:
Musical

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Keeping Down With the Joneses

Synopsis:
Jones builds a nuclear shelter in his garden and is trapped in it only to find his neighbours are emulating him

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written with John Chapman

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1985   -

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Kept

Synopsis:
Three elegant ladies of a certain age meet each year for a reunion in Paris. they are rich enough to afford gentlemen companions, slightly younger than themselves, who are charming and expensively tailored as one would expect kept men to be. Things suddenly start to fall apart when one of the men finds to his horror that he is to be pensioned off with a gold cigarette case after years of devoted service. This imminent change of fortune causes sides to be taken and cracks appear in the veneer of this witty, sophisticated group. Can a lady like Madelaine survive without having a man dangling from her purse strings, and will this be the last reunion?

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written by John Chapman And Jeremy Lloyd

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Who's the Daddy?

Synopsis:
makes a theatrical mockery of David Blunkett, the former Blairite Home Secretary, by replaying his disastrous dalliance with Spectator publisher Kimberley Quinn as a trouser dropping farce.

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by Toby Young And Lloyd evans with Additional material by Jeremy Lloyd

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Play/Drama

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Wimbledon

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written by John Chapman And Jeremy Lloyd

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