- He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Drama and Charity.
- His first job was as a Reporter on the "Chester Chronicle" (1939-1942). He had previously been turned down by the RAF because he suffered from hay fever and MI5 because he was considered too young to undertake espionage work.
- Was married four times, finally to Shän Davies, who was thirty years his junior.
- Son of a tobacco salesman and later tobacco factory manager and his teacher wife. Lloyd had a methodist upbring which influenced his choice of roles throughout his career, turning down roles that he considered offensive.
- Attended the Queen's School kindergarten in Chester, and at the age of eight wrote, directed and starred in his own pantomime. However his father wanted him to have a "proper" job to fall back on, after leaving the King's school.
- Following his rejection by the RAF and MI5, he went on a radio-operator's course for the Merchant Navy at Colwyn Bay, Wales and then onto entertaining troops around the world for ENSA as a member of George Thomas's Globetrotters. This lasted for three years until the war ended.
- Resembled Alfred Hitchcock.
- Used to be a reporter on a Chester newspaper.
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