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Rest in peace, Norman Lloyd. The actor, producer and director died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. He was 106.
Lloyd was best known for his role in Alfred Hitchcock s 1942 film
Saboteur; his character tumbled to his death from the top of the Statue of Liberty in the film s conclusion. He also starred as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC’s 1980s hospital drama
St. Elsewhere.
The performer was born in 1914 in Jersey City, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn. After childhood singing and dancing classes, he started his career at Le Galienne’s Civic Repertory Theater in 1932. He then joined the original company of the Orson Welles-John Houseman Mercury Theater.
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.”