Television star Sue Lloyd has died

Sue Lloyd, the glamorous star of Crossroads, The Ipcress File and Keeping Up Appearances, has died at the age of 72. 

 

Broken-hearted since her husband, the dashing actor Ronald Allen, succumbed to cancer just weeks after their marriage, Sue Lloyd has died at the age of 72.

“Sue suffered with her health in recent years, but she never complained,” her niece, Joanna Mitchell, tells Mandrake. “She had a great sense of fun. She worked with people like Peter Sellers and Ronnie Barker and they became her friends. She was very gregarious and got on with everyone she met.”

Lloyd, who starred opposite Sir Michael Caine in The Ipcress File, began courting Allen after they were cast as the married couple David and Barbara Hunter in the soap opera Crossroads. The couple were together off-screen for 13 years, long after the Midlands motel closed its doors in 1988.

Lloyd, who trained with Sadler’s Wells Ballet School, appeared in films including Revenge of the Pink Panther and became friends with Joan Collins after they appeared in The Stud and The Bitch.

Lloyd, a former model, appeared in many of the most popular television series of the Sixties and Seventies, including The Two Ronnies, The Saint, and The Persuaders! She later appeared in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.