Lloyd Berrell

Lloyd Berrell (13 February 1926 – 30 December 1957) was a New Zealand actor who played Roo in the original Sydney production of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. He worked extensively in Australian radio and theatre, and appeared in a large portion of the few films being shot locally at the time. He also starred in the original stage production of Sumner Locke Elliott's Rusty Bugles as well as a number of productions for the Mercury Theatre.

Berrell was born in Wellington but moved to Australia as a boy. He began acting on radio on The Youth Show. During World War II he served in Australian Broadcast Control Unit from 1944 to 1946.^[1]

In 1953 he won a Macquarie Award for best actor in a radio drama.^[2]

Personal life

Berrell's first marriage ended in divorce^[3] but he married happily a second time. He died of a heart attack on board ship while travelling to London.^[4][5]

Filmography

• I Found Joe Barton (1952)^[6]
• His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)
• King of the Coral Sea (1954)
• Long John Silver (1954)
• The Shiralee (1957)

Theatre credits

• Rusty Bugles by Sumner Locke Elliott – Independent Theatre, Sydney, 1948
• A Pickwick Story adapted by Creswick Jenkinson – Sydney Town Hall, 1948
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare – Independent Theatre, Sydney, 1950 – with Rod Taylor
• Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill – John Alden Company, 1951 – with Lyndall Barbour, Lou Vernon
• The Twins by Plautus – Mercury Theatre, Sydney, 1952 – with Rod Taylor and Ruth Cracknell
• Point of Departure by Jean Anouilh – Mercury Theatre, Sydney, 1952 – with Alan White
• The Happy Time by Samuel A. Taylor – Mercury Theatre, Sydney, 1952 – with Rod Taylor
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler – Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney, 1956
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare – Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Sydney, 1957
• The Relapse by John Vanbrugh – Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney, 1957 – with Zoe Caldwell

References

1. Lloyd Berrell war record
2. "Macquarie Awards For 1953.". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 1 March 1954. p. 14. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
3. "Husband Spanked Wife and Lost Case for Divorce.". The Canberra Times (National Library of Australia). 19 May 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
4. Richard Lane, The Golden Age of Radio Drama, Melbourne University Press 1994 p 214
5. Obituary at Sydney Morning Herald 1958 accessed 16 July 2013
6. "Australian T.V.Film.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 9 October 1952. p. 7 Section: Women's section. Retrieved 5 February 2012.

External links

• Lloyd Berrell at the Internet Movie Database
• Lloyd Berrell at AusStage
• Lloyd Berrell at the National Film and Sound Archive