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Actor

1934-01-30 · Newport, South Wales, UK · Male

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Bernard Lloyd (30 January 1934 – 12 December 2018) was a Welsh actor.

Early life

After attending the University College of North Staffordshire (from 1962 Keele University) Lloyd attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His surname was Gibbons but he changed it to Lloyd for professional purposes, to avoid being confused with another actor of the same name.

Career

Lloyd began his television career in Redcap in 1965. He played William Holman Hunt in the 1975 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood drama The Love School and the Traveller, the man who tries to unravel signalman Denholm Elliott's predicament, in the 1976 Ghost Story for Christmas, The Signalman, based on the short story by Charles Dickens. His other roles included Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil, Inspector Morse, Agatha Christie's Poirot and Lewis. He also performed as Jacob Marley's ghost in the 1999 television film adaptation of A Christmas Carol. In 2009 he played the role of the archbishop in the feature film The Young Victoria.