Euan Lloyd

Euan Lloyd (6 December 1923 – 2 July 2016) was a British film producer.

He began his career directing short travelogue documentaries, starting with April in Portugal in 1954 (not released until 1956). He worked in publicity, giving away Anita Ekberg at her wedding to Anthony Steel.

Lloyd befriended Alan Ladd while making The Red Beret and Ladd got Lloyd a job on production for Warwick Productions. He worked for that company for a number of years, then went to work for Carl Foreman.

Lloyd's first credit as producer came when Richard Widmark, with whom he had made A Prize of Gold, asked him to co produce The Secret Ways. He went on to produce The Poppy Is Also a Flower, Murderer's Row, and westerns such as ShalakoA Man Called Noon and Catlow. Lloyd obtained finance from a variety of international sources.

In the 1970s, Lloyd went independent, but his first effort, Paper Tiger (1975), was not a success, although he says it was probably his favourite picture.

He put everything he had behind the $10 million action film The Wild Geese (1978). He followed with The Sea Wolves, (1980) starring Roger Moore, David Niven and Gregory Peck and Who Dares Wins (1982). His last film was Wild Geese II (1985) starring Scott Glenn and Laurence Olivier.

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