The St Elsewhere star’s career began in the 1920s and, over the years, he worked with stars ranging from Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese. Hitchcock helped him out, and got him a behind-the-scenes job producing his popular TV show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Actor Norman Lloyd, who was a regular Hollywood fixture for nine decades, has died, aged 106. "The big scene, if I may say so, was my falling off the Statue of Liberty," Lloyd told Los Angeles public radio station KCRW in 2012.īecause Lloyd had long associated with leftists like Orson Welles, he found it hard to get hired during the McCarthy blacklists of the 1950s. Then Alfred Hitchcock hired Lloyd to play the creepy title character in his 1942 movie Saboteur. Elsewhere was a single chapter in a distinguished stage and screen career that put him in the company of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin and other greats, has died. Lloyd, the son of a Jersey City store manager, soon started acting with Orson Welles at his acclaimed Mercury Theatre. LOS ANGELES: Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr. It employed hundreds of out of work actors. Norman Lloyd, born in 1914, got his start performing with the Federal Theatre Project, part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s. He died Tuesday at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to his manager, Marion Rosenberg, as quoted by the Associated Press. To call an actor a Hollywood legend sounds like hyperbole, but Norman Lloyd really was. After an illustrious career in beloved films and shows such as Dead Poets Society and St. Actor Norman Lloyd reflects on his long career at the SAG Foundation Actors Center in Los Angeles in 2015.Īngela Weiss/Getty Images for SAG Foundation LOS ANGELES (AP) Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr.
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