Norman Lloyd, St. Elsewhere and Saboteur actor, passes away at 106
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Last Updated: May 12, 2021, 08:17 AM IST
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In 2014, the LA City Council proclaimed that his birthday would be marked as Norman Lloyd Day.
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His most notable film part was as the villain who plummets off the Statue of Liberty in 1942′s Saboteur , directed by Hitchcock, who also cast Lloyd in the classic thriller 1945 s Spellbound.
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LOS ANGELES: Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr. Daniel Auschlander on TV s St. 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. He was 106.
“If modern film history has a voice, it is Norman Lloyd’s,” reviewer Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2012 after Lloyd regaled a Cannes Film Festival crowd with anecdotes about rarified friends and colleagues including Charlie Chaplin and Jean Renoir.
The wiry, 5-foot-5 Lloyd, whose energy was boundless off-screen as well, continued to play tennis into his 90s. In 2015, he appeared in the Amy Schumer comedy “Trainwreck.”
His most notable film part was as the villain who plummets off the Statue of Liberty in 1942′s “Saboteur,” directed by Hitchcock, who also cast Lloyd in the classic thriller 1945’s “Spellbound.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) â Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr. Daniel Auschlander on TVâs âSt. Elsewhereâ 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. He was 106.
Lloyd s son, Michael Lloyd, said his father died Tuesday at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
His credits stretch from the earliest known U.S. TV drama, 1939â²s âOn the Streets of New Yorkâ on the nascent NBC network, to 21st-century projects including âModern Familyâ and âThe Practice.â
âIf modern film history has a voice, it is Norman Lloydâs,â reviewer Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2012 after Lloyd regaled a Cannes Film Festival crowd with anecdotes about rarified friends and colleagues including Charlie Chaplin and Jean Renoir.
Norman Lloyd, star of St. Elsewhere and Hitchcock s Saboteur, dies at 106
Norman Lloyd s movie credits include Jean Renoir’s The Southerner, Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight and Dead Poets Society with Robin Williams. Author: LYNN ELBER and MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writers Published: 7:14 PM CDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 7:14 PM CDT May 11, 2021
LOS ANGELES Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr. Daniel Auschlander on TV’s “St. 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. He was 106.
Lloyd s son, Michael Lloyd, said his father died Tuesday at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.