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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.
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.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
In this photo from 2008, actor Norman Lloyd attends the grand opening of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Winter 2008 Exhibitions at the Academy s Grand Gallery in Beverly Hills, California. Lloyd has died at the age of 106.(Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images/TNS)
Norman Lloyd, a Hitchcock villain who later saved lives on ‘St. Elsewhere,’ dies at 106
LOS ANGELES Norman Lloyd, who memorably fell to his death from the Statue of Liberty as the villain in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” in the 1940s but became best known four decades later as the kindly Dr. Daniel Auschlander on TV’s “St. Elsewhere,” has died at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.