Norman Lloyd

Norman Lloyd
Born	November 8, 1914 (1914-11-08) (age 95) Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Years active	1939–2005
Spouse(s)	Peggy Lloyd (1936-present)

Norman Lloyd (born November 8, 1914) is an American veteran actor, producer and director with a career in entertainment spanning more than seven decades. Lloyd has appeared in over sixty films and television shows. Lloyd is married and resides in Los Angeles.

Career

Theatre

Lloyd was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He attended high school and college in New York City and began his acting career in theater, first at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in New York then joining the original company of the Orson Welles – John Houseman Mercury Theatre. Lloyd had a significant role with the first Mercury Theatre production as Cinna the poet, in Julius Caesar (1937). The death of Cinna had great resonance with the audience because of the political events of the day combined with the set, lighting and costume design referencing the fascist threats of the time. The audience applauded for an astounding three minutes after the mob descends on Cinna for no reason other than his name is Cinna.^[1] The 1938 Broadway role, playing Johnny Appleseed in "Everywhere I Roam," was selected as one of the ten best Broadway performances of the year.

Film acting

Lloyd came to Hollywood to play a supporting part in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942), starting a long friendship and professional association with Hitchcock. As the villainous Nazi spy "Fry", Lloyd got to fall off the Statue of Liberty in the film's climactic ending.

After a few more villainous film roles, Lloyd also worked behind the camera as an assistant on Lewis Milestone's Arch of Triumph (1948). A friend of John Garfield, he appeared with him in He Ran All the Way, Garfield's last film before the Hollywood blacklist ended his film career.

Postwar career

A marginal victim of the blacklist, Lloyd was rescued professionally by Hitchcock, who had previously used the actor in Saboteur and Spellbound. Hitchcock made Lloyd an associate producer and a director on the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1958. Earlier, he was the director of the syndicated television series, The Adventures of Kit Carson starring Bill Williams.

He continued directing and producing episodic television throughout the 1960s and 1970s, being the first-season producer of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected in 1979. In the 1980s, Lloyd played Dr. Auschlander in the TV drama St. Elsewhere over its six season run (1982-88). From 1998 to 2001 he played Dr. Isaac Mentnor in the UPN science fiction drama Seven Days. His numerous TV guest-star appearances include The Joseph Cotten Show, Murder, She Wrote, The Twilight Zone, Wiseguy, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wings, The Practice and Civil Wars.

He has played in various radio plays for Peggy Webber's California Artists Radio Theater and Yuri Rasovsky's Hollywood Theater of the Ear. Lloyd's most recent part was in the film In Her Shoes (2005). He is the subject of the documentary Who is Norman Lloyd? which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on September 1, 2007.

Filmography

• Saboteur (1942)
• The Southerner (1945)
• Spellbound (1945)
• A Walk in the Sun (1945)
• Young Widow (1946)
• A Letter for Evie (1946)
• The Green Years (1946)
• Arch of Triumph (1948)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
• He Ran All the Way (1951)
• Limelight (1952)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series
• The Scarecrow (play) (1972 televised version)
• Audrey Rose (1977)
• FM (1978)
• The Nude Bomb (1980)
• St. Elsewhere as Dr. Daniel Auschlander (1983-1988) TV series
• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1989)
• Wiseguy TV series
• Murder, She Wrote TV series
• Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Chase (1993) as Professor Galen
• Seven Days as Dr. Isaac Mentnor (1998-2000) TV series
• Fail Safe (2000) televised play
• The Practice TV series
• In Her Shoes (2005)
• Who is Norman Lloyd?^[2] (documentary, 2007)

References

External links

• Norman Lloyd at the Internet Movie Database

• BN bio

• Vidiot.com bio and picture

• Stage work

• Archive of American Television: Norman Lloyd

• Who is Norman Lloyd? film website