Roger Lloyd-Pack

 ( 1944 Births ) 

Roger Anthony Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 16 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 Bartemius Crouch 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".

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Early life Lloyd-Pack was born on 8 February 1944 in Islington, London, the son of actor Charles Lloyd-Pack (1902–1983) and Ulrike Elisabeth ( née Pulay, 1921–2000), an Austrians Jewish refugee who worked as a travel agent. His uncle was George Pulay, one of the secret listeners to German POW in Trent Park during World War II.Helen Fry, "'The Walls Have Ears'", Yale University Press, London, ISBN 978-0-300-23860-0, 2019, p. 269 He attended Bedales School near Petersfield in Hampshire, where he achieved A Level passes in English, French and Latin. He subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), graduating in 1965 with an Acting Diploma.

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Career Lloyd-Pack began his acting career at Northampton's Royal Theatre, making his stage debut in the Thomas Dekker play The Shoemaker's Holiday.

He featured on an episode of The Professionals ("Long Shot", 1978) as a terrorist hitman.

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Only Fools and Horses

On British television, he was best known for portraying "Trigger", Del Boy's slow-witted "village idiot" friend in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, from 1981 to 2003.

Lloyd-Pack was cast by pure chance: an Only Fools and Horses executive producer, Ray Butt, hired him to portray the character Trigger after seeing him in a stage play, and had only attended that play to observe potential Del Boy actor Billy Murray.

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Later career He was also known for his role in The Vicar of Dibley as Owen Newitt and to international audiences for his performance as Bartemius 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 2point4 Children.

In 2005, he appeared in the second series of ITV's Doc Martin as a farmer who held a grudge against Dr 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 Cyberman 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. Lloyd-Pack's final TV appearance was in as Alex Greene.

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

In 2012, he portrayed the Duke of Buckingham in the play Richard III, and in 2013, portrayed Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, both at the Apollo Theatre, London.

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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 (daughter of David Markham), whom he married in 2000. He had a daughter, actress Emily Lloyd, and three sons. He later lived in Kentish Town, north London, and also had a home near Fakenham in Norfolk. Only Fools and Horses stars attend the funeral of Roger Lloyd Pack Eastern Daily Press, 13 February 2014

Lloyd-Pack was a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur.

He was an honorary patron of the London children's charity Scene & Heard.

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 as Peter Gill, Harold Pinter, Richard Eyre, Thea Sharrock and Tina Packer, and listed actor Paul Scofield as both a favourite and influence.

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Political views Lloyd-Pack supported the Labour Party and campaigned for Ken Livingstone in the 2012 London mayoral election. 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, Left Unity.

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Death and tributes Lloyd-Pack died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Kentish Town, aged 69, on 16 January 2014. His funeral was held at the church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. It was attended by former fellow cast members Sir David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, John Challis and Sue Holderness. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery East. Resting Places

Nigel Havers, Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Alison Steadman, Kathy Burke and Joely Richardson paid tribute to him.

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). The third episode of series 8 of , which Lloyd-Pack appeared in, aired two months after his death and similarly ended with a tribute title card.

In 2025, Lloyd-Pack appeared on a British postage stamp issued as part of a special set by Royal Mail, which commemorated the series The Vicar of Dibley.

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Filmography

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Film

Uncredited
	1969	The Virgin Soldiers	Bandmaster
aka The Man Who Couldn't Get Enough
1997	Van Gogh's Ear	Michael Ash	Short film
1998	The Avengers	Professor	Uncredited
(The Globe on Screen)

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Television

1967	The Prisoner	Villager	Episode: "It's Your Funeral", uncredited
1968	Virgin of the Secret Service	Cuthbert Blake	Episode: "Entente Cordiale"
	Crime Buster	Laboratory Analyst	Episode: "The Third Thief"
1970	The Roads to Freedom	Bobby	Episode: #1.2
1972	Jason King	Radio Operator	Episode: "A Kiss for a Beautiful Killer"
	Spyder's Web	Albert Mason	11 episodes
1972–1973	The Protectors	Paparazzo/Russi	2 episodes
1973	Special Branch	Paul	Episode: "Red Herring"
1974	Within These Walls	Dr. Osmonde	Episode: "The Group"
	Crown Court	Dr. Patrick Attwater	Episode: "The Alb of St. Honoratus: Part 1"
1975	Churchill's People	Thug	Episode: "The Fine Art of Bubble Blowing"
	Play for Today	Sidney Bagley	Episode: "Brassneck"
		Martin Webb	Episode: "Homicide"
	The Naked Civil Servant	Bermondsey Liz	Television film
1976	Dixon of Dock Green	Ron Fielding	Episode: "Everybody's Business"
	Survivors	Wally	2 episodes
1977	The Professionals	Ramos the terrorist	Episode: "Long Shot"
1978	Will Shakespeare	Jack Heminge	6 episodes
1979	BBC Television Shakespeare	2nd Gentleman	Episode: "The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight"
1980	Bloody Kids	Hospital Doctor	Television film
	Turtle's Progress	Corsican	Episode: #2.2
1981	Chronicle	Chambers	Episode: "The Crime of Captain Colthurst"
	Private Schulz	Melvin	Episode: #1.6
1981–1996, 2001–2003	Only Fools and Horses	Trigger	39 episodes
1983	Video Stars	Bus Enthusiast	Television film
	Bouncing Back	Unknown
1984	Miracles Take Longer	Terry Noble	2 episodes
	I Thought You'd Gone	PC Balmforth	Episode: #1.7
1985	Moving	Jimmy Ryan	6 episodes
1985–1993	Screen Two	Selser David Power Derek	3 episodes
1985	Summer Season	Victor	Episode: "One for the Road"
1986	Comrade Dad	Black market stallholder	Episode: "Londongrad 1999"
	The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest	Lt. Chmielewski	Television film
1987	Inspector Morse	Donald Martin	Episode: "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn"
	The Finding	Fowles	Television film
1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Rosmer	Episode: "Henrik Isben"
	Room at the Bottom	Stranger	Episode: "Withcraft"
	Bad Boyes	Boggs	Episode: "The Holiday"
1989	Theatre Night	Glendenning	Episode: "The Contractor"
	The Stone Age	Herb	Television film
	Made in Spain	Den
1990	Mr. Bean	Waiter	Episode: "The Return of Mr. Bean"
	Byker Grove	Beckett	5 episodes
	Zorro	Carrillo	Episode: "The Marked Man"
1991	The Chief	Kenneth Rudyard	2 episodes
1991–2002	The Bill	Mick Mortimer/Arnie	7 episodes
1991	Selling Hitler	David Irving	2 episodes
	Stay Lucky	Eddie Vernon	Episode: "The Food of Love"
	The Gravy Train Goes East	Ferenc Plitplov	4 episodes
	Boon	Ray Watts	Episode: "Cab Rank Cowboys"
1992	Archer's Goon	Quentin Sykes	6 episodes
	Screen One	Gordon	Episode: "Trust Me"
	Party Time	Fred	Television film
1993	Anna Lee: Headcase	Desk clerk
	Lovejoy	Smallman-Smith	Episode: "Who Is the Fairest of Them All?"
1993–1995	Inside Victor Lewis-Smith	Policeman	8 episodes
	2point4 Children	Jake Klinger	3 episodes
1993–1996	Health and Efficiency	Rex Regis	12 episodes
1994	Citizen Locke	Captain	Television film
	Dandelion Dead	Phillips	2 episodes
1994–2007	The Vicar of Dibley	Owen Newitt	20 episodes
1995	Blood and Peaches	Tour guide	Television film
	The Perfect Match	Tom
1996–1997	Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's...	Police constable Sergeant	2 episodes
1996	Murder Most Horrid	Frank Foster	Episode: "Confess"
	Zig and Zag's Dirty Deeds	Clutch	Episode: "This Party Sucks"
	Heartbeat	Reggie Rawlins	Episode: "Catch Us If You Can"
1997	The Missing Postman	Ken Thompson	Television film
1997–1998	Knight School	Sir Baldwin De'Ath	3 episodes
1997	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	Anderson	2 episodes
	Noel's House Party	Builder	Episode: #7.9
1998	The Vanishing Man	Marvin	Episode: "Nothing Up My Sleeve"
1999	Kavanagh QC	Alex Watkins	Episode: "Time of Need"
	Oliver Twist	Mr Sowerberry	2 episodes
2000	Longitude	Capt. Man	Television film, uncredited
	Fish	Jim Lumsden	Episode: "Dancing with the Devil"
2001		Dr. Ibbotson	Episode: "The Photographer's Chair"
2002	Born and Bred	Norman Pendleton	Episode: "The Best Man"
	Dalziel and Pascoe	Bishop Halliwell	Episode: "Sins of the Fathers"
2003	Margery & Gladys	D.I. Woolley	Television film
2004	Where the Heart Is	Don Nicholls	Episode: "Bowl of Cherries"
2005	Doc Martin	Phil Pratt	Episode: "Always on my Mind"
	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Inspector Caux	Episode: "The Mystery of the Blue Train"
2006	Doctor Who	John Lumic	Episode: "Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel"
	What We Did on Our Holiday	Jim Taylor	Television film
2007	The History of My Polly	Mr. Johnson	Television film
2008	New Tricks	Danny Jones	Episode: "Loyalties and Royalties"
2009–2010	The Old Guys	Tom Finnan	12 episodes
2009	The Catherine Tate Show	Ghost of Christmas Future	Episode: "Nan's Christmas Carol"
2010	Arena	Various Characters	Episode: "Harold Pinter: A Celebration"
	Survivors	Billy Stringer	2 episodes
2011	Hustle	Clive Ban	Episode: "Clearance From A Deal"
2012	The Borgias	Friar	6 episodes
	Inspector George Gently	Hector Blackstone	Episode: "Gently with Class"
2014		Alex Greene	Episode: ""

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Stage

• 1984 Wild Honey by Anton Chekhov, playing Osip (Best Supporting Actor, BTA Awards 1984)Theatre programme for A Flea In Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, Old Vic August 1989, cast biographies.
• 1984 One for the Road by Harold Pinter (Victor) world premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith
• 1986 Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett, playing Kafka (world premiere at The Royal Court)
• 1985 The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest by Ronald Harwood (Lt. Chmielewski) premiere at Almeida Theatre
• 1989 A Flea in Her Ear (playing Étienne Plucheux) by Georges Feydeau translated by John Mortimer, directed by Richard Jones, Old VicTheatre programme for A Flea In Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, August 1989, cast list.
• 1995 Tartuffe by Moliere playing the title role at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
• 1999 Art at the Theatre Royal, Bath and in 2000 at the Bristol Hippodrome
• 2005 Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall, as Robert at the Sheffield Crucible
• 2006 Dick Whittington, pantomime by Mark Ravenhill at the Barbican Centre, as Sarah the cook
• 2007 Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber, playing the part of Ash, at the Menier Chocolate Factory, directed by Samuel West
• 2007 The Last Laugh, by Kōki Mitani (English version of Warai no Daigaku), playing The Censor, Japan.
• 2012 The Trojan Women, Caroline Bird's adaptation of the tragedy by Euripides, playing Poseidon, at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London
• 2012 Richard III by William Shakespeare, playing Duke of Buckingham at the Globe Theatre, South Bank, London
• 2013 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare playing Sir Andrew Aguecheek

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External links

• Roger Lloyd-Pack at the British Film Institute
• BBC biography
• BBC interview about appearing in Doctor Who

• Roger Lloyd Pack Archive at V&A
• list of stage roles at Theatricalia

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