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.
[3] Fired from his job at his uncle's hardware store because he insisted that he had to leave early to play his role in the LTM pantomime, Alice in Wonderland, Lloyd left Jamaica in 1951 when he was 21 to join his brother Barry, also a playwright and actor, in England.
[10] Reckord also acted in several television series, including four episodes of Danger Man (1960–61, 1964–65),[13] and The Human Jungle ("Enemy Outside", 1964), but feeling typecast as an actor, he wanted to move into direction.
With only limited funds, including a grant from the BFI, he made two non-commercial film shorts Ten Bob in Winter (1963, featuring Winston Stona, Bari Johnson, Peter Madden and Andrew Salkey, with a jazz soundtrack by Joe Harriott)[14][15][16] and Dream A40 (1965).
In 2011 his work featured in the Black London's Film Heritage Project, with the compilation Big City Stories[17] including Reckord's 1963 film Ten Bob in Winter, as well an excerpt from the television play by his brother entitled You in Your Small Corner, in which Lloyd Reckord played the lead male character.