Personal Info
Birth date
1933-07-26 (92 Years)
Day of death
2015-01-06
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK
Also known as
John Lancelot Blades Percival
Lance Percival
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lance Percival (born 26 July 1933, Sevenoaks, Kent) is an English actor, comedian and after-dinner speaker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lance Percival, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Bullseye
7.1
Overview:
Bullseye was a popular British television programme. It was first made for the ITV network by ATV in 1981, then by Central from 1982 until 1995, and was hosted by Jim Bowen.The Adventurer
5.5
Overview:
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.Target
6.333
Overview:
A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.Cilla
10
Overview:
A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.The Beatles
5.2
Overview:
The Beatles is an American animated television series featuring the fanciful and musical misadventures of the popular English rock band of the same name. It ran from 1965 to 1969 on ABC in the US. The series debuted on September 25, 1965 and ended on September 7, 1969. A total of 39 episodes were produced. The series was shown on Saturday mornings at 10:30 AM EST until the 1967 third season when it was moved to 12:00 PM EST. For the fourth season, which consisted of reruns, the series was shown at 9:30 AM EST on Sunday mornings. Each episode has a name of a Beatles song, so the story is based on its lyrics and it is also played at some time in the episode. The original series was rebroadcast in syndication by MTV in 1986 and 1987 and on the Disney Channel. The series was a historical milestone as the first weekly television series to feature animated versions of real, living people.That Was The Week That Was
8
Overview:
That Was the Week That Was, informally TWTWTW or TW3, is a satirical television comedy programme on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. It was devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost. An American version by the same name aired on NBC from 1964 to 1965, also featuring Frost. The programme is considered a significant element of the satire boom in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. It broke ground in comedy through lampooning the establishment and political figures. Its broadcast coincided with coverage of the politically charged Profumo affair and John Profumo, the politician at the centre of the affair, became a target for derision. TW3 was first broadcast on Saturday 24 November 1962.Whodunnit?
7.3
Overview:
Whodunnit? is a British television game show, broadcast between 1972 and 1978 for ITV by Thames Television. It was written by Lance Percival and Jeremy Lloyd, and hosted first by Edward Woodward. One of the panelists in the first series was Jon Pertwee, who took over as the show's presenter from season two. Each week it featured a short murder-mystery drama enacted in front of a panel of celebrity guests who then had to interview the remaining characters to establish who the murderer was. Patrick Mower and Anouska Hempel became the permanent panelists from season three onwards, with two guest celebrities each episode. The only clue was that only the murderer could lie. Whodunnit? originally adopted a conventional panel-game studio layout, but from series three onwards utilised the murder scene itself as the set. It was similar in format, although not officially connected to, the popular board game Cluedo. The theme to the show was written by Tony HatchUp Pompeii
6.1
Overview:
A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.Shoestring
6.8
Overview:
Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
3.4
Overview:
Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.The Weekend Murders
6
Overview:
An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...The V.I.P.s
6.132
Overview:
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.Countdown
6
Overview:
The clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility.Yellow Submarine
7.142
Overview:
The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.Jekyll & Hyde
5.797
Overview:
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.The Yellow Rolls-Royce
6.067
Overview:
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.Darling Lili
5.529
Overview:
World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half German and is an undercover German spy, using her feminine wiles to gather information from the high ranking and generally older military officers and diplomats she seduces.Too Late the Hero
6.4
Overview:
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.There's a Girl in My Soup
5.5
Overview:
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.Carry On Cruising
6.094
Overview:
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.The Big Job
6.7
Overview:
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
4.5
Overview:
Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a national invitational, Herman and his friends find work in a pop group, and Herman falls in love.Up The Workers
NYR
Overview:
This comedy series lets you in on the secrets of industrial relations and management-workers consultations. Or at least how they happen at the Midlands factory of Cockers Components Ltd. They mainly center on the dealings between managing director Dicky Bligh, shop steward Sid Stubbins and labor relations officer Bernard Peck.Bluebirds
NYR
Overview:
Bluebirds was a CBBC drama broadcast on 5 October to 9 November 1989, for six episodes. Set in London, youth group the Bluebirds try to protect their housing project from vandalism by local criminal Robbins.Confessions from a Holiday Camp
5.2
Overview:
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind.On the Fiddle
5.3
Overview:
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.Raising the Wind
6.15
Overview:
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?Up the Front
4.156
Overview:
In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow streak gone Lurk is down that army office before you can say "titter ye not." Off to war he goes, mingling with sexy spies like Zsa Zsa Gabor and before long, the spellbound recruit is heading hot-foot back to Blighty with the Germans' plan of attack tattooed on his bum, and the Germans are bringing up the rear...! Full of sauce, knowing real-life references and witty remarks to camera, this is a cheeky incorrigible final instalment.Acting
1996Noel's Telly Years (1 Episode) as Unknown
1990Jekyll & Hyde as Beresford Mount, Prince's Private Secretary
1989Bluebirds (6 Episodes) as Derek Proudfoot
1982Countdown (36 Episodes) as Unknown
1981An Audience with Dudley Moore as Unknown
1981Bullseye (1 Episode) as Self - Special Guest
1979Shoestring (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse as Jake Fletcher
1977Target (1 Episode) as Lloyd Johnson
1977Confessions from a Holiday Camp as Lionel
1974The Boy with Two Heads as Unknown
1973Up The Workers (14 Episodes) as Bernard Peck
1973The Cobblers of Umbridge as Ralph Beverly
1972Our Miss Fred as Smallpiece
1972The Adventurer (1 Episode) as Carl Gardner
1972Up the Front as Von Gutz
1971Up Pompeii as Bilius
1970There's a Girl in My Soup as Willie the Bridegroom (uncredited)
1970The Weekend Murders as Supt. Grey
1970Darling Lili as T.C. Carstairs
1970Too Late the Hero as Cpl. McLean
1968Yellow Submarine as Old Fred (voice)
1968Cilla (1 Episode) as Self
1968Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter as Percy Sutton
1965The Beatles (52 Episodes) as Paul McCartney / Ringo Starr (voice) (uncredited)
1965The Lance Percival Show (12 Episodes) as Unknown
1965The Big Job as Timothy 'Dipper' Day
1965Joey Boy as Clarence Doubleday
1964The Yellow Rolls-Royce as Assistant Car Salesman
1963It's All Over Town as Richard Abel
1963The V.I.P.s as B.O.A.C. Officer
1962That Was The Week That Was (37 Episodes) as Unknown
1962In the Doghouse as Policeman (Uncredited)
1962Twice Round the Daffodils as George Logg
1962Carry On Cruising as Wilfred Haines, Ship's Cook
1962Postman's Knock as Joe
1961What a Whopper as Policeman at Roundabout
1961On the Fiddle as MacTaggart (Uncredited)
1961Raising the Wind as Harry
1961Three on a Spree as Stage Prompter (uncredited)