Jeremy Lloyd "Help!" (1965), he is a restaurant patron, also uncredited. In 1969, he filmed a scene with Peter Sellers for "The Magic Christian", which co-starred Ringo Starr. Lloyd can be seen in a boardroom meeting offering marketing slogans for a really big car, and suggests "the gang's all here back seat." In 1967 he played the eccentric chimney sweep, Berthram Fortesque Wynthrope-Smythe, aka Bert Smith, in "The Avengers" episode, "From Venus With Love". Lloyd's first major success as a comedy writer was with "Are You Being Served?" in 1972, on which he worked with David Croft. He and Croft subsequently produced
Peter Sellers was universally lauded by critics and is considered by critic Danny Smith to be the "crowning triumph of Peter Sellers's remarkable career". Critic Frank Rich wrote that the acting skill required for this sort of role, with a "schismatic personality that Peter had to convey with strenuous vocal and gestural technique ... A lesser actor would have made the character's mental dysfunction flamboyant and drastic ... [His] intelligence was always deeper, his onscreen confidence greater, his technique much more finely honed": in achieving this, Sellers "makes the film's fantastic premise credible". The film earned Sellers a Best Actor award at