Lloyd Reckord

Lloyd Reckord
Born
Lloyd Malcolm Reckord

(1929-05-26)26 May 1929
Kingston, Jamaica
Died8 July 2015(2015-07-08) (aged 86)
Jamaica
Occupation(s)Actor, film maker, and stage director
RelativesBarry Reckord (brother)

Lloyd Reckord (26 May 1929 – 8 July 2015) was a Jamaican actor, film maker, and stage director who lived in England for some years. Reckord appeared in 1958 in a West End production of Hot Summer Night, which as an ITV adaptation broadcast on 1 February 1959 contained the earliest known example of an interracial kiss on television.[1] His brother was the dramatist Barry Reckord.[2]

  1. ^ Amanda Bidnall, The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945-1965: "The first on-stage interracial kiss came in 1958 with the performance of Ted Willis's Hot Summer Night, and one year later that same kiss came to the small screen with the play's adaptation for ITV's Armchair Theatre."
  2. ^ Margaret Busby, "Barry Reckord obituary", The Guardian, 16 January 2012.