Bernard Lloyd (30 January 1934 – 12 December 2018) was a
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actor noted for his television roles.
[ He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and he performed with the ]Royal Shakespeare Company
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Perhaps his most famous role was as The Traveller, the man who tries to unravel signalman Denholm Elliott's predicament in the 1976 '' Ghost Story for Christmas'', '' The Signalman'', based on the short story by Charles Dickens.
The Signalman
' at bbc.co.uk, retrieved 8 July 2010Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...
drama '' The Love School''.
Beginning his TV career in '' Redcap'' in 1965, he played roles in '' Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil'', '' Inspector Morse'', '' Agatha Christie's Poirot'' and '' Lewis''. He also performed as Jacob Marley's ghost in the 1999 television film adaptation of ''A Christmas Carol
''A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'', commonly known as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ''A Christmas C ...
''. In 2009 he played the role of the archbishop in the feature film '' The Young Victoria''.[, retrieved 8 July 2010]
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Welsh male television actors
Welsh male stage actors
Welsh male film actors
1934 births
2018 deaths
Alumni of Keele University
Alumni of RADA