With the death of Hugh Lloyd at the age of 85, there goes the last of those wonderful comic actors who were part of the repertory company of Tony Hancock. Whenever we're recalling the recovery ward section of "The Blood Donor" (which we should do regularly because it is after all the funniest, saddest, wisest take on the bollocks that men talk ever written) we should never forget that half the credit should go to Lloyd whose willingess to be impressed played so perfectly to Hancock's eagerness to do the impressing.
Lloyd: Are you a doctor then?
Hancock: No, I never really bothered.
Who's left of that generation of brilliant comic foot soldiers?