- Starred in the 1967 promotional featurette for "The Fearless Vampire Killers" entitled "Vampires 101."
- Well-known for his appearances as Professor Wallofsky in shows such as Max Wall: Funny Man (1975) and An Evening with Max Wall (1982) wearing a bald cap and drainpipe trousers prancing around stage doing a funny walk in time to snare drum music.
- His father was also a stage comedian, Jock Lorimer.
- English music hall song-and-dance man, originally billed as "The Boy with the Educated Feet". He was first on stage as a baby dressed in a kilt. In his later years, he became a noted character actor, often in the plays of Samuel Beckett.
- Brought up in the Brixton area of London.
- His father was a Scottish comedian in the days of Harry Lauder and his mother,grandparents and an aunt were all in show business.
- Last heard of he was living in a London flat.
- Married 3 times.
- He started as an acrobatic dancer and except for 4 years as a drill instructor in the RAF spent all his life on the stage.
- A past master of clowning and the originator of 'The Silly Walk' he switched from doing a solo comedy act to appearing in plays such as The Entertainer, Krapp;s Last Tape and as King Bruno in the film Jabberwocky as king Bruno and Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
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