Jeremy Lloyd, OBE was an English writer, screenwriter, author, poet and actor, best known as co-author and writer of several successful British TV sitcoms, including Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo!.
Started his career as a suit salesman at Simpsons, a department store in Londons Piccadilly where he spent 3 1/2 years.
Subject of a persistent urban legend which claims that he was invited to a dinner party at the home of Sharon Tate on the night that she was murdered by followers of Charles Manson. There seems to be no truth in this myth, as Lloyd was performing at a live show in New York during the week of Tates death, and there is no evidence to suggest that he had ever met Tate or her husband, Roman Polanski , while she was still living.
He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queens New Years Honours List for his services to British Comedy. He is a screen writer.
Ex-stepfather of Jamie Lumley.
(December 2012) London, England: writer
His most famous sitcom as a writer, "Are You Being Served?", was based on Lloyds own experiences working at Simpsons of Piccadilly.
Before starting as a comedian and writer, he worked variously as a paint salesman, a metal sorter and road digger.
Composer.
Half of Marian Hill.
