https://deadline.com/2021/05/norman-lloyd-dead-st-elsewhere-actor-1234754280/
Norman Lloyd Dies: ‘St. Elsewhere’ Actor Who Worked With Welles, Hitchcock & Chaplin Was 106
By Erik Pedersen
Managing Editor
May 11, 2021 2:13pm

Norman Lloyd, the Emmy-nominated veteran actor, producer and director whose career ranged from The Mercury Theater, Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur and acting with Charlie Chaplin in Limelight to St. Elsewhere, Dead Poets Society and The Practice, died May 10 in his sleep at his Los Angeles home.. He was 106. A family friend confirmed the news to Deadline.

During one of the famous Lloyd birthday celebrations, Karl Malden said, ”Norman Lloyd is the history of our business.”

Lloyd’s acting career dates back to Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater, of which he was the last surviving member. He was part of its first production — a modern-dress adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

He originally was cast in Welles’ epic Citizen Kane and accompanied the director to Hollywood. When the filmmaker ran into his proverbial budget problems, Lloyd quit the project and retuned to New York, later making his screen debut as the villainous spy who fell from the top of the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur (1942).

Lloyd himself generously offered start-up jobs to many well known filmmakers, such as Billy Friedkin.

On television, he directed most of Hitchcock’s suspense pieces — winning a Special Mention for Alfred Hitchcock Presents from the Venice Film Festival in 1985 — and starred on the NBC medical drama St.. Elsewhere.

Deadline’s Todd McCarthy wrote an appreciation of Lloyd on the occasion of the actor’s 106th birthday and receiving the Legacy Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association last year.

“With Norman at last taking his final curtain call,” he wrote, “there truly is no significant actor left who was part of the politically engaged New York theatre of the 1930s, worked with major Hollywood filmmakers whose careers stretched from the silent cinema into the 1960s, was a pioneer in television and always kept his hand in with his first love, the stage.”

Lloyd was in his late 60s when he was cast as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC’s St. Elsewhere. He was with the show for its entire six season run from 1982-88. During the 1970s, he earned Emmy nominations for the NBC adventure series The Name of the Game as a producer and telefilm Steambath as an EP.

Lloyd’s close friend, Dean Hargrove, himself a legendary television producer, said: “Norman had a great third act, with an annual birthday party until age 105 filled with notables. He was active until the end, steeped in great stories about the early days of Hollywood and New York theater.”

Added Deadline’s Peter Bart: “Norman loved spinning stories of his encounters with Charlie Chaplin and other legendary figures with whom he interacted. I often played tennis with him until he reached 100. If he missed a shot, he would comment, “When I played with Bill Tilden, he would tell me how to improve my backhand. Feel free to do the same.'”

Lloyd led a busy social life in Hollywood — with his friends ranging from Jean Renoir to Buster Keaton to Judd Apatow, who cast him in 2013’s Trainwreck. Lloyd later complained, “I appreciated Apatow’s choice of me for his film but was upset he didn’t put me in any of the hot scenes.”

MORE TO COME…

I saw "Saboteur" (on VHS) in high school - on a weekend, I think.

I still remember at least one laugh from my classmates.

Diner <bwaystars@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://deadline.com/2021/05/norman-lloyd-dead-st-elsewhere-actor-1234754280/
> Norman Lloyd Dies: ?St. Elsewhere? Actor Who Worked With Welles, Hitchcock & Chaplin Was 106
> By Erik Pedersen
> Managing Editor
> May 11, 2021 2:13pm
>
> Norman Lloyd, the Emmy-nominated veteran actor, producer and director whose
> career ranged from The Mercury Theater, Alfred Hitchcock?s Saboteur and acting
> with Charlie Chaplin in Limelight to St. Elsewhere, Dead Poets Society and The
> Practice, died May 10 in his sleep at his Los Angeles home. He was 106. A family
> friend confirmed the news to Deadline.
>
> During one of the famous Lloyd birthday celebrations, Karl Malden said, ?Norman Lloyd is the history of our business.?
>
> Lloyd?s acting career dates back to Orson Welles? Mercury Theater, of which he was the last surviving member. He was part of its first production ? a modern-dress adaptation of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar.
>
> He originally was cast in Welles? epic Citizen Kane and accompanied the director to Hollywood. When the filmmaker ran into his proverbial budget problems, Lloyd quit the project and retuned to New York, later making his screen debut as the villainous spy who fell from the top of the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcock?s Saboteur (1942).
>
> Lloyd himself generously offered start-up jobs to many well known filmmakers, such as Billy Friedkin.
>
> On television, he directed most of Hitchcock?s suspense pieces ? winning a Special Mention for Alfred Hitchcock Presents from the Venice Film Festival in 1985 ? and starred on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere.
>
> Deadline?s Todd McCarthy wrote an appreciation of Lloyd on the occasion of the
> actor?s 106th birthday and receiving the Legacy Award from the Los Angeles Film
> Critics Association last year.
>
> ?With Norman at last taking his final curtain call,? he wrote, ?there truly is
> no significant actor left who was part of the politically engaged New York
> theatre of the 1930s, worked with major Hollywood filmmakers whose careers
> stretched from the silent cinema into the 1960s, was a pioneer in television and
> always kept his hand in with his first love, the stage.?

So he had decided at 106 to retire?

> Lloyd was in his late 60s when he was cast as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC?s
> St. Elsewhere. He was with the show for its entire six season run from 1982-88.

The intent,I believe,had been that the character would die in the first season.

> During the 1970s, he earned Emmy nominations for the NBC adventure series The
> Name of the Game as a producer and telefilm Steambath as an EP.
>
> Lloyd?s close friend, Dean Hargrove, himself a legendary television producer, said: ?Norman had a great third act, with an annual birthday party until age 105 filled with notables. He was active until the end, steeped in great stories about the early days of Hollywood and New York theater.?
>
> Added Deadline?s Peter Bart: ?Norman loved spinning stories of his encounters with Charlie Chaplin and other legendary figures with whom he interacted. I often played tennis with him until he reached 100. If he missed a shot, he would comment, ?When I played with Bill Tilden, he would tell me how to improve my backhand. Feel free to do the same.'?
>
> Lloyd led a busy social life in Hollywood ? with his friends ranging from Jean
> Renoir to Buster Keaton to Judd Apatow, who cast him in 2013?s Trainwreck. Lloyd
> later complained, ?I appreciated Apatow?s choice of me for his film but was upset
> he didn?t put me in any of the hot scenes.?
>
> MORE TO COME?

(Renee Simonot,born 1911,is apparently still alive and the oldest
performing arts person of note...first appeared on stage in 1918
and was dubbing voices for films from 1929).

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