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In his long career as an actor, producer and director, he worked with some of the best-known names in show business, even if his own was barely recognized.
Norman Lloyd, Actor in St. Elsewhere and Hitchcock s Saboteur, Dies at 106
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Actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd, best known for his title role in Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” and as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC’s “St. Elsewhere” and famously associated with Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 106.
His friend, producer Dean Hargrove, confirmed his death and said “His third act was really the best time of his life,” referring to the many historical Hollywood retrospectives and events Lloyd had participated in over the past few decades. Lloyd often said his secret to his long and mostly illness-free life was “avoiding disagreeable people,” Hargrove recounted.
Saboteur (1942)
Norman Lloyd, the actor, director, and producer who died on Tuesday at the age of 106, will always be associated with the great directors he worked with: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, and Jean Renoir. With his passing, Lloyd joins “all the others who helped make Hollywood what it was,” writes Todd McCarthy for Deadline. “The parade has now definitively, conclusively, gone by.” With Lloyd, “a golden hoard of twentieth-century cultural memory is gone,” writes
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross. “I’ve had the honor to speak with many extraordinary people in my journalistic career; my two-hour-long conversation with Norman is, hands down, my favorite among all interviews I’ve done, and will probably remain so.”