| 词条 | Lance Percival |
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| name = Lance Percival | image = Lance Percival Actor.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = John Lancelot Blades Percival | birth_date ={{birth date|1933|7|26|df=y|}} | birth_place = Sevenoaks, Kent, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2015|1|6|1933|7|26|df=y|}} | death_place = London, England | othername = | yearsactive = }}John Lancelot Blades Percival (26 July 1933 – 6 January 2015), known as Lance Percival, was an English actor, comedian and singer, best known for his appearances in satirical comedy television shows of the early 1960s and his ability to improvise comic calypsos about current news stories. He later became successful as an after-dinner speaker.[1] BiographyPercival was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, and was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, where he learnt to play the guitar. He then did national service with the Seaforth Highlanders as a lieutenant and was posted to Egypt. In 1955 he emigrated to Canada where he worked as an advertising copywriter, writing jingles for radio. He also formed a calypso group as "Lord Lance" which toured the US and Canada.[2] He first became well known in the early 1960s for performing topical calypsos on television shows such as That Was The Week That Was, after having been discovered by Ned Sherrin, performing at the Blue Angel Club in Mayfair.[3] A tall thin man with a distinctive crooked nose and prominent ears, he also appeared in several British comedy films including the Carry On film Carry On Cruising (1962). He had a cameo role in The V.I.P.s (1963) and another in The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964). He also appeared in his own BBC TV comedy series Lance at Large (also 1964), with writers Peter Tinniswood and David Nobbs. Working, like many British comics of the era, with George Martin at Parlophone, Percival had one UK Singles Chart hit, his cover version of a calypso-style song entitled "Shame and Scandal in the Family" which reached number 37 in October 1965,[3] and recorded several other comedy songs, including "The Beetroot Song" ("If You Like Beetroot I'll Be True To You", 1963), written by Mitch Murray, and "The Maharajah of Brum" (1967), written with Martin.[4] Later he provided the voice of both Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr for the cartoon series The Beatles (1965), leading to his voicing the central character "Old Fred" in the Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine. He also appeared as an "upper class tramp" in the Herman's Hermits film vehicle Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968).[5] During the 1960s and 1970s, on BBC Radio 4 and on its predecessor the BBC Home Service, he was a regular panelist on Ian Messiter’s Many a Slip.[6] He starred alongside Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson and Jeremy Kemp in the musical film Darling Lili (1970) and also appeared in There's a Girl in My Soup. On 14 December 1970, he was involved in a fatal three-car crash in his Jaguar XJ on a dangerous stretch of road near Farningham, Kent. Percival almost lost the sight of one eye and was charged with causing death by dangerous driving. In a legal action that reached the Court of Appeal he paid a total of £35,781 in damages to his two passengers and to the widow and the two children of the driver who was killed ({{Inflation|UK-GDP|35781|1974|fmt=eq|cursign=£|r=-4}}).[7][8][9][10]{{Inflation-fn|UK-GDP}} Percival returned to film work in the Frankie Howerd vehicles Up Pompeii (1971), Up the Chastity Belt (1971), and Up the Front (1972), sustaining a film career until 1978. Between 1972 and 1978 the Thames Television game show Whodunnit! was written by Percival and Jeremy Lloyd. Percival appeared on BBC Radio light entertainment programmes such as Just a Minute throughout the 1980s and is also the author of two books of verse, Well-Versed Cats and Well-Versed Dogs, both illustrated by Lalla Ward. Subsequently he gained a reputation as a writer and later as an after-dinner speaker.[11] Percival died on 6 January 2015, aged 81, after a long illness.[1] His son Jamie said: "When he spoke about his showbiz life, he spoke fondly of his time on That Was the Week That Was, and he always loved Ned Sherrin, who discovered him performing at the Blue Angel Club". He was cremated at Putney Vale Cemetery on 20 January 2015.[12] FilmographyFilm{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
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References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/185934/percival|title=PERCIVAL|publisher=Announcements.telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=9 January 2015}} 2. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jan/09/lance-percival Lance Percival Guardian Obituary]. Retrieved 9 January 2015 3. ^{{cite book |first=David |last=Roberts |year=2006 |title=British Hit Singles & Albums |edition=19th |publisher=Guinness World Records Limited |location=London |isbn=1-904994-10-5 |page=423}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/search?type=releases&q=Percival |title=Discogs |publisher=Discogs |date=26 July 1933 |accessdate=2012-12-21}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063325/reviews|title=Reviews & Ratings for Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter|publisher=IMDb.com|accessdate=2012-12-21}} 6. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11335607/Lance-Percival-obituary.html] 7. ^{{cite news |title=Lance Percival to face charge |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19710210&id=JJJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1443,1805293 |accessdate=24 June 2018 |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=10 February 1971 |page=5}} 8. ^{{cite news |title=Lance Percival for trial |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19710324&id=sOA9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=S0gMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6552,4366300 |accessdate=24 June 2018 |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=24 March 1971 |pages=4}} 9. ^{{cite news |title=Operation to save actor's eye |work=The Guardian |date=16 December 1970 |location=London |page=20}} 10. ^{{cite news |title=Percival to pay £5,200 |quote=The court increased from £18,331 to £25,531 damages awarded to Mrs. Jillian Young, aged 31, for the death of her husband [...] Last year Mr. Percival, himself seriously injured in the accident, agreed to pay damages totalling £12,250 to his two passengers. |work=The Guardian |date=27 July 1974 |location=London |page=12}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tmcentertainment.co.uk/speaker-index.html?speakerid=240&speakertypeid=1 |title=Lance Percival, Book After Dinner Speaker Lance Percival |publisher=Tmcentertainment.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2012-12-21}} 12. ^1 [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30746784 'Up Pompeii star Percival dies' BBC News – retrieved 9 January 2015] External links
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