RIP Hugh Lloyd

[barni]

Hugh appeared in Dr Who episode 'Delta and The Bannermen' with Sylvestor McCoy and Ken Dodd

 

Hugh Lloyd was the lugubrious comic actor best known as Tony Hancock's woebegone sidekick in Hancock's Half Hour and later as Terry Scott's meek flatmate in Hugh and I.

 

Lloyd (left) with Tony Hancock: their TV recording sessions were fraught with tension and soon deteriorated

 

Although Lloyd accepted parts in productions as diverse as Alan Bennett's A Visit from Miss Protheroe and the detective series Charlie, he always claimed he was happiest in "cheerless underdog parts".

 

It is not surprising then that Lloyd considered as particular triumphs the role of a mournful worm in James and the Giant Peach and that of a concrete garden ornament in The Gnomes of Dulwich.

 

He drew inspiration from his childhood hero Stan Laurel. "I saw Laurel and Hardy on stage," he recalled, "and they were brilliant. They were real professionals, economical, they didn't do anything unless it was funny."

Edited July 19, 2008 by Barni

[Big_Pants]

Aw that's sad news.

[vintageSW77]

seen him in quite a few things over the years but never knew his name

a great character actor

Edited July 19, 2008 by vintageSW77