Trivia

Starred in the 1967 promotional featurette for The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) 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.

His father was a Scottish comedian in the days of Harry Lauder and his mother, grandparents and an aunt were all in show business.

Brought up in the Brixton area of London.

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 (1977) and Malvolio in Twelfth Night.

Last heard of he was living in a London flat.

Married 3 times.

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.

Throughout the music video Fat Les: Vindaloo (1998), a man in a bald wig and tight-fitting evening wear struts backwards and forwards across the shot like a rooster. The actor is dressed to look like Wall and the drum pattern resembles the snare-drum music he used in his routines.