Roger Lloyd-Pack

Roger Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 15 January 2014) was an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the television shows Only Fools and Horses, The Vicar of Dibley, and The Old Guys, as well as his role in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He was occasionally credited without the hyphen in his surname.

Early life

Lloyd-Pack was born in Islington, London, to Ulrike Elizabeth (née Pulay), a travel agent, and Charles Lloyd-Pack, who was also an actor. He attended Bedales School in Hampshire, where he achieved A Level passes in English, French and Latin. He subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he worked with actors including Kenneth Cranham and Richard Wilson.

Career

On British television he was best known for portraying Colin "Trigger" Ball in theBBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He was also known for his role in The Vicar of Dibley as Owen Newitt, and to international audiences his greatest fame was as Barty Crouch, Sr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

In 2005 he appeared in the second series of ITV's Doc Martin as a farmer who held a grudge against Doctor Ellingham for what he believed was the malpractice-related death of his wife. In 2006 he played John Lumic and provided the voice of the Cyber-Controller in two episodes of Doctor Who, "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel", opposite David Tennant, who had played his son in the same Harry Potter film.

Personal life

Lloyd-Pack was married twice; first to Sheila Ball, from whom he was divorced in 1972, and secondly to the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham (the daughter of David Markham), whom he married in 2000. He had one daughter, actress Emily Lloyd, and three sons: Spencer, Hartley and Louis. He lived most latterly in Kentish Town, north London.

Lloyd-Pack supported Tottenham Hotspur. In June 2008, he appeared as a guest on the BBC's The Politics Show, arguing the case for better-integrated public transport (specifically railways). He was an honorary patron of the London children's charity Scene & Heard.

Lloyd-Pack supported the Labour Party and campaigned for Ken Livingstone for the London mayoral election, 2012. However, in 2013, he signed a letter in The Guardian which stated he had withdrawn his support from the Labour Party, in favour of a new party of the left.

In a 2008 interview, when asked what profession he would have chosen aside from acting, Lloyd-Pack said: "Psychiatrist or a psychoanalyst or something in the psycho world because I’ve always been interested in that... or I might have been a photographer... I also would have loved to have been a musician". In that same interview, he listed his favourite directors asPeter Gill, Harold Pinter, Richard Eyre, Thea Sharrock, and Tina Packer, and also listed actor Paul Scofield as both a favourite and influence.

In January 2012, he and fellow actor Sarah Parish supported a campaign to raise £1million for The Bridge school in Islington.

 

Lloyd-Pack died at home on 15 January 2014 from pancreatic cancer.

 

Filmography

Television

 Year Title Role Notes

1965 The Avengers Man with bloodhounds  

1968 Crime Buster    

1970 The Roads to Freedom Bobby  

1972 Spyder's Web Albert 12 episodes Jason King radio operator   The Protectors Paparazzo 1 episode Uncredited

1973 Special Branch Paul 1 episode The Protectors Russi 1 episode

1974 Within These Walls Dr Osmonde 1 episode as Roger Lloyd Pack Crown Court Dr Patrick Attwater 1 episode

1975 Churchill's People Thug 1 episode Play for Today Sidney Bagley 1 episode Softly, Softly: Taskforce Martin Webb 1 episode

1976 Dixon of Dock Green Ron Fielding 1 episode Survivors Wally 2-part episode as Roger Lloyd Pack

1978 Life of Shakespeare Jack Heminge 6 episodes The Professionals Ramos 1 episode 1981 Chronicle Chambers 1 episode Private Schulz Melvin 1 episode

1981–2003 Only Fools and Horses Trigger 39 episodes

1985 Moving Jimmy Ryan 6 episodes 1985–1993 Screen Two Selser, David Power, Derek 3 episodes

1990 Mr Bean Waiter (One episode) Episode 'The Return of Mr Bean' Byker Grove Beckett 5 episodes Zorro Carrillo 1 episode

1991 The Chief   2 episodes Selling Hitler David Irving 2 episodes The Bill Arnie 1 episode Stay Lucky Eddie Vernon 1 episode The Gravy Train Goes East Ferenc Plitplov 4 episodes as Roger Lloyd Pack Boon Ray Watts 1 episde as Roger Lloyd Pack 1992 Archer's Goon Quentin Sykes   Screen One Gordon  

1993 Lovejoy Smallman-Smith 1 episode as Roger Lloyd Pack

1993–1995 Health and Efficiency Rex Regis  

1993–1996 2point4 children Jake Klinger 3 episodes as Roger Lloyd Pack

1993–1995 Health and Efficiency Rex Regis 12 episodes

1996, 1997 Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's... Various characters  

1996 Murder Most Horrid Frank Foster 1 episode Heartbeat Reggie Rawlins "Catch Us If You Can" as Roger Lloyd Pack

1997, 1998 Knight School Sir Baldwin De'Ath 2 episodes

1997 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Anderson 2 episodes as Roger Lloyd Pack Noel's House Party Builder  

1999 Kavanagh QC Alex Watkins 1 episode Oliver Twist Mr Sowerberry 2 episodes

2001 Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes Dr Ibbotson  

2002 Born and Bred Norman Pendleton 1 episode as Roger Lloyd Pack The Bill Mick Mortimer 7 episodes Dalziel and Pascoe Bishop Halliwell 1 episode

2004 Where the Heart Is Don Nicholls 1 episode

2005 Doc Martin Phil Pratt 1 episode

2006 Poirot Inspector Caux "The Mystery of the Blue Train" Doctor Who John Lumic "Rise of the Cybermen" "The Age of Steel"

1994–2007 The Vicar of Dibley Owen Newitt 24 episodes as Roger Lloyd Pack

2008 New Tricks Danny Jones 1 episode as Roger Lloyd Pack

2009–2010 The Old Guys Tom Finnan 12 episodes Sometimes credited as Roger Lloyd Pack

2009 The Catherine Tate Show Ghost of Christmas Future "Nan's Christmas Carol"

2010 Arena Various characters "Harold Pinter: A Celebration" Survivors Billy Stringer 2 episodes

2012 The Borgias Friar as Roger Lloyd Pack Inspector George Gently Hector Blackstone as Roger Lloyd Pack

Film

Year Film Role Notes

1968 The Magus Young Maurice Conchis  

1969 Hamlet Reynaldo  

1970 The Go Between Charles as Roger Lloyd Pack

1971 Fright Constable   1

975 The Naked Civil Servant Gay Man  

1979 Meetings with Remarkable Men Pavlov  

1984 1984 Waiter as Roger Lloyd Pack

1987 Prick Up Your Ears    

1989 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Geoff   1990 Wilt Dr Pittman  

1991 American Friends Dr Butler   The Object of Beauty Frankie  

1993 U.F.O. Solo  

1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Piano teacher as Roger Lloyd Pack

1995 The Young Poisoner's Handbook Fred  

1997 Preaching to the Perverted Mr Cutts Watson as Roger Lloyd Pack

2004 Vanity Fair Francis Sharp as Roger Lloyd Pack

2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Barty Crouch, Sr. as Roger Lloyd Pack

2006 The Living and the Dead Donald Brocklebank as Roger Lloyd Pack

2010 Made in Dagenham George as Roger Lloyd Pack

2011 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Mendel as Roger Lloyd Pack In Love with Alma Cogan Norman   Stage roles[edit]

• Wild Honey (1984) by Anton Chekhov, playing the part of Osip[19]
• Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett – He played Kafka
• Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall
• 'Art'
• Dick Whittington – a family pantomime by Mark Ravenhill at the Barbican Centre
• One for the Road
• Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber – He played Ash, alongside Malcolm Sinclair and Stephen Wight.
• Gandalfa u Gospodarima prstenova.
• The Last Laugh – by Koki Mitani (English version of Warai no Daigaku). He played The Censor, Japan, 2007.
• The Trojan Women (2012) - Caroline Bird's adaptation of the tragedy by Euripides at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London – He played Poseidon.
• Richard III (2012) by William Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre, South Bank, London – He played Duke of Buckingham.
• Twelfth Night (2013) by William Shakespeare – He played Sir Andrew Aguecheek.