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.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." His brother was the dramatist Barry Reckord.Margaret Busby, "Barry Reckord obituary", The Guardian, 16 January 2012.
