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: 8:14 PM EDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 8:14 PM EDT 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.
To call an actor a Hollywood legend sounds like hyperbole, but Norman Lloyd really was.
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.
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. It employed hundreds of out of work actors. Lloyd, the son of a Jersey City store manager, soon started acting with Orson Welles at his acclaimed Mercury Theatre.
Then Alfred Hitchcock hired Lloyd to play the creepy title character in his 1942 movie
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Veteran Television And Film Star Norman Lloyd Dead At 106
Norman Lloyd starred in TV’s “St. Elsewhere” and Hitchcock s Saboteur film, and more recently appeared in Modern Family.
Lynn Elber and Mark Kennedy
LOS ANGELES (AP) 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.
“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.”