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John Lancelot Blades Percival, known as Lance Percival (26 July 1933 – 6 January 2015), was an English actor, comedian and singer, best known for his appearances in satirical comedy 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.
He was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, and was educated at Sherborne School in Sherborne, 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.
Percival 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. 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). Percival 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.
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Calypso-mad Lance does a great turn of the fun song 'with a twist at the end'
Lance Percival - The Beetroot Song
An interview with the star of 'That Was, The Week, That Was', 'Carry On Cruising' and numerous British comedies from the 1960's onwards.
All aboard Lance's fun song about buses!
RIP Lance. There weren't many British comedy actors who enjoyed making music as much as he
Sid James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery and Lance Percival plan 'The Big Job' in the start of this bank heist comedy from the Carry On team.
Self-penned fun from Mr. P
Lance's seventh and final single - produced by George Martin
Google was obviously the first place i looked, and at the time i posted there was nothing at all about the crash. The wikipaedia entry has since changed and indeed even uses this video as one of the citations for the information now there.As was said here, there is a lot more information now , including the newspaper clippings which took a lot of finding before.This has all happened quite recently. Finally I'd like to mention that I was contacted by Paul young's son, who said he too thought it was strange that there was not more information about his the death of his father and thanked me for posting this. Of course it could have just been a prankster.......
Lance Percival (26 July 1933 – 6 January 2015), was an English actor, comedian and singer, best known for his appearances in comedy films and shows of the early 1960's including 'Carry On' films. He also released a number of comical singles - this one is from 1963.
An interview with the star of 'That Was, The Week, That Was', 'Carry On Cruising' and numerous British comedies from the 1960's onwards.
A nice piece from the legendary TV event. For more, hit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOKqzJJvEOw
Actor Lance Percival, who starred in British hit comedy in Up Pompeii, has died at the age of 81. Among his notable film roles were Carry On Cruising, Postman's Knock and Darling Lili. On TV, he appeared in the late '70s series Shoestring and Citizen James. He also provided the voice for both Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in the 1960s cartoon The Beatles. Born John Lancelot Blades, he died on 6 January following a long illness. His TV career began performing satirical calypso songs on comedy shows such as the That Was The Week That Was. He was later given his own series, The Lance Percival Show and Lance at Large, a 1964 sitcom which also featured Bernard Bresslaw, Gladys Bacon and Eric Barker. His love of calypso music also saw him release a cover version of Shame and Scandal (in t...
British actor, comedian and singer, John Lancelot Blades Percival, known professionally as Lance Percival, died Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 in London, England. He was 81 years old. Percival's path to becoming a fixture of British television began in the early 60s, with appearances on the classic BBC satire programme, That Was The Week That Was. Mr. Percival also provided the voices of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in The Beatles cartoon of the 60s, which led to him being cast as "Old Fred" in the animated feature, The Yellow Submarine.
A nervous motorist has bought an old jalopy and receives banking advice from a policeman. Not sure if this is the actual voice of Lance Percival, rather than a voice over artist impersonating him. The animation is certainly supposed to be him. Visit http://www.findaclip.co.uk for more information about this footage.
Toon sketch of my favourite comedians. Hope you like it. Disclaimer! I do not own the rights to the audio and would ask that all credit goes to the producers or estate of peter cook, who wrote this bit of genius back in 1961 or whoever currently owns the copyright today as I am not doing this for profit at all and its just a fan video. I did however, make the cartoon and all that art is my own.
A 1980 interview with double act Little and Large.
BECAUSE I LOVE HIM :D (caps were necessary) he has to be my fave out of the knights (well out of Lance,Elyan, Leon & Percival , though I love them allcz their all aweosme :D) The end bit had to go in & of course Eoin falling over in the bloopers cz its just adorable. Hope we got lots of Gwaine (& the rest of the knights) next season :D (Sorry for the overlay fail & random song much? haha) enjoyy x
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An interview with comedian and actor Bill Maynard from 1980.
Some clips taken from carry on cruising