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 Sellers as "the most seminal force in shaping [his] early ideas on comedy". Cohen was considered for the role of Sellers in the biographical film "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers". The three members of Spinal Tap—Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer—have also cited Sellers as being an influence on them, as has the American talk-show host Conan O'Brien. David Schwimmer is another whose approach was influenced by Sellers: "he could do anything, from Dr Strangelove to Inspector Clouseau. He was just amazing." Eddie Izzard notes that the Goons "influenced a new generation of comedians who came to