Roger Lloyd Milner (2 April 1925–22 February 2014) was a British actor, author and dramatist who is probably best remembered today for appearing in two of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas dramas in the 1970s.
[4] It opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York starring Patricia Routledge, Peter Bayliss and James Bolam.
In June 1970 with his wife Carol Snape he acted in the BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Theatre broadcast Modest Old Chester.
1976 saw his You'll Never Be Another Michael Angelo open at the Hampstead Theatre Club, with the critic of The Stage describing it as "a sense of muddle, shot through with intelligence and invention".
Unable to write and with children to support Milner returned to acting, taking such roles on television as the antique shop owner in A Warning to the Curious (1972), and the clergyman in Lost Hearts (1973), both part of the A Ghost Story for Christmas strand for the BBC; Mortimer Brown, a photographer, in the three-part story, ' The Doll ', (1975); Ticket Collector in Raven (1977); the Rev.
Francis Chaffney in Prince Regent (1979); as Wilcox the butler in Brideshead Revisited (1981), playing opposite two of his acting heroes, John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier.
He appeared as Anicca in the Doctor Who episode 'Kinda' (1982); as Solomon Gills in the mini-series Dombey and Son (1983); as Henry Herewith in the children's comedy All Change (1989-1991) opposite Frankie Howerd; the Headmaster in Dark Season (1991), and Pratt in Middlemarch (1994).
[7] Other later works penned by Milner included several biographies, including Reith (1983), a biography about the founder of the BBC, Lord Reith; Amy (1984), was about Amy Johnson, the pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia and who disappeared during a ferry flight.