Roger Lloyd-Pack

Roger Lloyd-Pack
Lloyd-Pack in 2013
Born	(1944-02-08)8 February 1944 Islington, London, England
Died	15 January 2014(2014-01-15) (aged 69) Kentish Town, London, England
Resting place	Highgate Cemetery
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1960–2014
Spouse(s)	Sheila Ball ​ ​ (m. 1967; div. 1972)​ Jehane Markham ​ ​ (m. 2000)​
Children	4, including Emily Lloyd
Parent(s)	Charles Lloyd-Pack (father)
Relatives	David Markham (father-in-law)

Roger Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 15 January 2014) was a British actor. He is best known for playing Trigger in Only Fools and Horses from 1981 to 2003, and Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley from 1994 to 2007. He later starred as Tom in The Old Guys with Clive Swift. He is also well known for the role of Barty Crouch, Sr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and for his appearances in Doctor Who as John Lumic in the episodes "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel". He was sometimes credited without the hyphen in his surname. He died in 2014 from pancreatic cancer.

Early life[]

Lloyd-Pack was born in Islington, London, the son of Ulrike Elisabeth (née Pulay, 1921–2000), an Austrian Jewish refugee who worked as a travel agent,^[1] and Charles Lloyd-Pack (1902–1983), who was also an actor.^[2] He attended Bedales School near Petersfield in Hampshire, where he achieved A Level passes in English, French and Latin.^[3] He subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he worked with actors including Kenneth Cranham and Richard Wilson.^[4]

Career[]

Roger Lloyd-Pack began his acting career at Northampton's Royal Theatre, which he revisited when he appeared in the tour of Blue/Orange. On British television, he was best known for portraying "Trigger" in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses.^[5] 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 addition, he had a semi-regular role during the 1990s as the plumber Jake "The Klingon" Klinger, Ben Porter's arch-rival, in the sitcom 2 point 4 children.

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.^[6] Lloyd-Pack's final TV appearance was in Law & Order: UK as Alex Greene.

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.^[7] He had a daughter, actress Emily Lloyd, and three sons. He latterly lived in Kentish Town, north London,^[8] but also had a home near Fakenham in Norfolk.^[9]

Lloyd-Pack supported Tottenham Hotspur.^[10] He voiced the pre-match build-up montage video shown ahead of all Tottenham Hotspur's home matches which is still played today.

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).^[11] He was an honorary patron of the London children's charity Scene & Heard.^[12]

Lloyd-Pack supported the Labour Party and campaigned for Ken Livingstone in the 2012 London mayoral election.^[13] However, in 2013, he signed a letter in The Guardian stating he had withdrawn his support from the Labour Party, in favour of a new party of the left.^[14]

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."^[15] In that same interview, he listed his favourite directors as Peter Gill, Harold Pinter, Richard Eyre, Thea Sharrock, and Tina Packer, and also listed actor Paul Scofield as both a favourite and influence.^[15]

In January 2012, he and fellow actor Sarah Parish supported a campaign to raise £1million for The Bridge School in Islington.^[16]

Death[]

Grave of Roger Lloyd Pack in Highgate Cemetery

Lloyd-Pack died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Kentish Town aged 69 on 15 January 2014.^[17][18][19] His funeral was held at the church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden.^[20] It was attended by Sir David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, John Challis and Sue Holderness.^[21] Nigel Havers, Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Alison Steadman, Kathy Burke and Joely Richardson paid tribute to him.^[22] His body was buried at Highgate Cemetery East.^[23][24] In March that year, the Sport Relief special of Only Fools and Horses was dedicated to the memory of both Lloyd-Pack and John Sullivan. Similarly, the final episode of the lockdown edition of The Vicar of Dibley ended with a tribute just before the closing credits reading, "In loving memory of Liz, John, Emma and Roger", paying tribute to him and three other late Dibley cast members (Liz Smith, John Bluthal and Emma Chambers).

Filmography[]

Film[]

Television[]

Stage[]

• Wild Honey (1984) by Anton Chekhov, playing the part of Osip^[25]
• 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.
• The Last Laugh – by Kōki 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.

References[]

External links[]

• Roger Lloyd-Pack at IMDb
• BBC biography
• BBC interview about appearing in Doctor Who

• Roger Lloyd Pack Archive at V&A