1. John Lancelot Blades Percival, 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.
Lance Percival then did national service with the Seaforth Highlanders as a lieutenant and was posted to Egypt.
Lance Percival formed a calypso group as "Lord Lance" which toured the US and Canada.
Lance 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.
Lance Percival had a major role, and second billing, in the comedy musical It's All Over Town.
Lance Percival appeared in his own BBC TV comedy series Lance at Large, with writers Peter Tinniswood and David Nobbs.
Lance Percival appeared as an "upper class tramp" in the Herman's Hermits film Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter.
Lance Percival starred alongside Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson and Jeremy Kemp in the musical film Darling Lili and appeared in There's a Girl in My Soup.
Lance Percival was in hospital for a month, he almost lost the sight of one eye and required 123 stitches.
Lance Percival was acquitted after evidence showed that a tyre on his car had probably deflated before the crash.
Lance Percival returned to film work in the Frankie Howerd films Up Pompeii, Up the Chastity Belt, and Up the Front, sustaining a film career until 1978.
Lance Percival appeared on BBC Radio light entertainment programmes such as Just a Minute throughout the 1980s and was the author of two books of verse, Well-Versed Cats and Well-Versed Dogs, both illustrated by Lalla Ward.
Lance Percival died on 6 January 2015, aged 81, after a long illness.
Lance Percival was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium on 20 January 2015.