JEREMY LLOYD DIED AT THE AGE OF 84 - HE APPEARED IN TWO FILMS WITH THE BEATLES

JEREMY LLOYD died at the age of 84.

Jeremy Lloyd Tall Dancer at the Disco(A Hard Day´s Night, 1964)

He passed away at a hospital in London on Monday evening (22Dec14) after a battle with pneumonia.

Lloyd's agent Alexandra Cann says, "Jeremy was a great wit and always a mass of original ideas. He had a wonderfully original mind and will be greatly missed."

The veteran writer was best known for co-creating sitcoms including wartime comedy 'Allo 'Allo! and department store series Are You Being Served?, which he penned with Dad's Army writer David Croft. 

As a performer, he appeared in two films with music legends The Beatles - 1964's A Hard Day's Night and Help! the following year (65) - and he also acted opposite Peter Sellers in The Magic Christian, which also featured Ringo Starr.

In 1970, he enjoyed a brief marriage to actress Joanna Lumley, who he worked with on short-lived sitcom It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes Darling. The union, which marked his second trip down the aisle after a previous marriage to a model, ended after less than a year. 

 Photo: Jeremy Lloyd: Restaurant Diner/ Help! , 1965.

  

Photo: Jeremy Lloyd (Lord Hampton, Magic Christian, 1969)

Lloyd was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2013 for his services to comedy, and he married for a third time this summer (14), tying the knot with interior designer Lizzy Moberly, 49, in June (14).