Norman Lloyd

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Norman Lloyd (2007)

Norman Nathan Lloyd (born November 8, 1914 in Jersey City , New Jersey as Norman Perlmutter , † May 11, 2021 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor , director and film producer . Over the course of his 90-year career, he has worked with film legends such as Charlie Chaplin , Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock .

life and career

Norman Lloyd (1937)

Norman Lloyd was born into a Jewish family from New York in 1914 . There he also attended high school and later New York University , where he did his doctorate . As a child he was on stage for the first time as a singer and dancer. He began his professional acting career at Eva Le Galliennes Civic Repertory Theater . He established himself in the midst of the Great Depression as part of the politically and socially engaged theater on Broadway .

Then joined Lloyd is the legendary Mercury Theater of Orson Welles on. For example, in 1937, under Welles' direction, he played the poet Cinna in his acclaimed and influential stage production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar . He also appeared on the radio more often as a radio play speaker, also for the Mercury Theater. As Welles in Hollywood by RKO Pictures was contracted to there Citizen Kane to turn, Lloyd was one as originally planned many more Mercury actors to the planned occupation of the film and was probably for the role of Mr. Bernstein - but since Lloyd a With a young family to support and the wait for Citizen Kane to start filming proved to be too long, he returned to Broadway. In 1938 he played the title role of Johnny Appleseed in the musical Johnny Appleseed , for which he received excellent reviews. He also starred in several plays directed by Elia Kazan . In 1939 he appeared in The Streets of New York , probably the first American television film ever.

In 1941, Lloyd came to Hollywood. There he stood in his first film Saboteurs , directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and played the American Nazi spy Frank Fry , who fell to his death in what is probably the most famous scene in the film about the Statue of Liberty . A long friendship developed between Hitchcock and Lloyd. In 1945 he had a supporting role as a sanatorium patient with guilt complexes in Hitchcock's I fight for you at the side of Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck . In the same year he starred in Jean Renoir's classic film The Man from the South . In Hollywood, Lloyd, who is relatively thin at 1.65 meters, was only cast in supporting roles. In 1948 he took on his first job behind the camera: as assistant director to Lewis Milestone on the melodrama Triumphbogen . However, he continued to work as an actor, including in M (1951), a US remake of Fritz Lang 's German classic of the same name . He played the role of ballet director Bodalink in Charlie Chaplin's tragic comedy Rampenlicht (1952).

During the 1950s, in the McCarthy era , Lloyd came under suspicion of being a communist due to his left-wing liberal political activism . He was put on a gray list , a kind of suspect list and preliminary stage to the " black list ", after which he could hardly find work in Hollywood. His friend Hitchcock finally employed him from 1957 to 1965 as a director, executive producer and occasional actor on his popular television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957-1965). In collaboration with the producer Joan Harrison , his right hand as Hitchcock was co-produced Lloyd 1968, the British anthology series journey into the unknown (Journey to the Unknown) . In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s he continued his work as a director and producer of television series and television films. Among other things, he acted as the producer of the first season of Roald Dahl's television series Tales of the Unexpected .

From the 1980s, Lloyd was increasingly in front of the camera, while he ended his career as a producer and director. In the television series Chief Physician Dr. Westphall ( St. Elsewhere , 1982–1988) he played one of the leading roles as the lovable hospital doctor Dr. To see Daniel Auschlander . He played in the film drama The Dead Poets Club (1989) next to Robin Williams the authoritarian school principal Mr. Nolan and was seen in Martin Scorsese's love drama Time of Innocence (1993) at the side of Daniel Day-Lewis . In the series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century he played in 1993 in the episode The Missing Fragment Professor Galen, the mentor of Captain Picard . Between 1997 and 2001, Lloyd embodied in 49 episodes of the series Seven Days - The gateway to time the role of Dr. Isaac mentor . In 2005, he starred alongside Cameron Diaz and Shirley MacLaine, a professor in the comedy In My Sister's Shoes . In 2015, at the age of 100, he made his last film, Judd Apatow's comedy Dating Queen with Amy Schumer , which earned him the title of the oldest working actor in Hollywood.

Until his death, Lloyd appeared repeatedly at retrospectives of old films and as an interviewee for documentaries. In 2020 he received an honorary award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in the newly formed Legacy Award category . In the movie Ich & Orson Welles (2008), which Lloyd didn't like himself, he was played as a historical figure by the actor Leo Bill .

Private life

On June 29, 1936, Lloyd married Broadway actress Peggy Craven, two years his senior , whom he met when they were starring together in the play Crime , directed by Elia Kazan . They had two children. Peggy died on August 30, 2011 at the age of 98. The 75-year marriage was considered one of the longest-lived in all of Hollywood .

Lloyd's greatest hobby was tennis, which he played twice a week until 2015. Charlie Chaplin was his tennis partner three times a week for a long time, and Lloyd later said of him: “He was pretty good, very capable. A joy. But he didn't want to wear his glasses, so he could never really see the ball while on the net ... ”. He also had friends and acquaintances with German-speaking exiles such as Lion Feuchtwanger , Bertolt Brecht , Arnold Schönberg and Hanns Eisler .

Lloyd died in Los Angeles on May 11, 2021 at the age of 106 .

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

  • 1939: The Streets of New York (TV movie)
  • 1941: The Forgotten Man (short film)
  • 1942: saboteurs (saboteurs)
  • 1945: Death lives next door (The Unseen)
  • 1945: The Man from the South (The Southerner)
  • 1945: Landing in Salerno (A Walk in the Sun)
  • 1945: I fight for you (Spellbound)
  • 1945: Within These Walls
  • 1946: The Legacy (The Green Years)
  • 1946: Young Widow
  • 1946: A Letter for Evie
  • 1947: The Beginning or the End
  • 1948: One Woman Too Many (No Minor Vices)
  • 1949: Demon of Paris (Reign of Terror)
  • 1949: Scene of the Crime
  • 1949: Steppe Rebels (Calamity Jane and Sam Bass)
  • 1950: Cutthroat Island (Buccaneer's Girl)
  • 1950: The Rebel (The Flame and the Arrow)
  • 1951: M
  • 1951: Profile 7-73 (He Ran All the Way)
  • 1951: Meeting in Tunis (The Light Touch)
  • 1951: Flame of Stamboul
  • 1952: spotlight (Limelight)
  • 1955: A Word of the Wives ...
  • 1956: Kraft Television Theater (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1956: The United States Steel Hour (TV series, episode)
  • 1957: On Trial (TV series, episode)
  • 1957: General Electric Theater (TV series, an episode)
  • 1957–1961: Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( Alfred Hitchcock Presents , television series, five episodes)
  • 1959: Road Hog
  • 1959: One Step Beyond (TV series, one episode)
  • 1960: New Comedy Showcase (TV series, one episode)
  • 1968: The Smugglers
  • 1968: Companions in Nightmare
  • 1970: The Most Deadly Game (TV series, episode)
  • 1971: What's a Nice Girl Like You ...?
  • 1972: Asphalt Blossoms ( Scarecrow , TV movie)
  • 1972: The Bravos
  • 1972: The Shadow of a Gunman
  • 1972: Awake and Sing!
  • 1972: Where all roads end (Night Gallery)
  • 1972: O'Hara, US Treasury (TV series, episode)
  • 1973: Carola
  • 1974: The Gondola (TV movie)
  • 1974: Sty of the Blind Pig
  • 1975: Broadway Theater Archive: For the Use of the Hall
  • 1975: Deployment in Manhattan ( Kojak , TV series, an episode)
  • 1977: Audrey Rose - the girl from beyond the grave (Audrey Rose)
  • 1978: FM - The Super Wave (FM)
  • 1978: The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1979: Beggarman, Thief (TV movie)
  • 1980: The Nude Bomb (The Nude Bomb)
  • 1981: King Kobra (Jaws of Satan)
  • 1982: Quincy ( Quincy ME , TV series, an episode)
  • 1982–1988: Chief Physician Dr. Westphall ( St. Elsewhere , TV series, 132 episodes)
  • 1985: The Paper Chase (TV series, episode)
  • 1986: Unknown Dimensions ( The Twilight Zone , TV series, an episode)
  • 1986–1993: Murder is her hobby ( Murder, She Wrote , television series, three episodes)
  • 1989: Amityville Horror 4 (Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes)
  • 1989: Dead Poets Society (Dead Poets Society)
  • 1989: Fighting the Mafia (TV series, an episode)
  • 1991: The Adventures of the Samurai (Kabuto)
  • 1992: Marital Wars ( Civil Wars , TV series, an episode)
  • 1992: Home Fires (TV series, six episodes)
  • 1993: The Age of Innocence (The Age of Innocence)
  • 1993: Starship Enterprise - The Next Century ( Star Trek: The Next Generation , TV series, an episode)
  • 1995: The Omen
  • 1996: Wings - the high-flyers ( Wings , TV series, an episode)
  • 1997: The Song of the Lark (short film)
  • 1997–2003: Practice - The Lawyers ( The Practice , television series, three episodes)
  • 1998–2001: Seven Days - Das Tor zur Zeit ( Seven Days , TV series, 49 episodes)
  • 1999: When I call Hitchcock (Dial H for Hitchcock)
  • 2000: Fail Safe - Command with no way out ( Fail Safe , TV film)
  • 2000: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle ( The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle , Voice)
  • 2005: In Her Shoes (In Her Shoes)
  • 2005: Photosynthesis (short film)
  • 2007: Who Is Norman Lloyd?
  • 2010: Modern Family (TV series, episode)
  • 2014: A Place for Heroes
  • 2014: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
  • 2015: Dating Queen (Trainwreck)

As a director

  • 1951: The Adventures of Kit Carson (TV series)
  • 1952: Chevron Theater (TV series, eight episodes)
  • 1952–1953: Omnibus (TV series, five episodes)
  • 1955: A Word to the Wives ... (short film)
  • 1958–1962: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series, 22 episodes)
  • 1968: Companions in Nightmare (TV movie)
  • 1968: The Smugglers (TV movie)
  • 1971: Columbo : Steps out of the Shadows ( Lady in Waiting , TV movie)
  • 1973: Carola (TV movie)
  • 1974: The Carpenters (TV movie)
  • 1974: Nourish the Beast (TV movie)
  • 1976: Philemon (TV movie)
  • 1976: The Fatal Weakness (TV movie)
  • 1978: Actor (TV movie)
  • 1983–1984: The Incredible Stories of Roald Dahl ( Tales of the Unexpected , TV series, two episodes)

As a producer

  • 1957–1962: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series, 184 episodes)
  • 1960: Startime : Incident at the Corner (TV movie, Incident at a Corner )
  • 1962–1965: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series, 63 episodes)
  • 1968: The Smugglers (TV movie)
  • 1968: Companions in Nightmare (TV movie)
  • 1968–1969: Journey to the Unknown (TV series, 12 episodes)
  • 1969–1970: The Name of the Game (TV series, three episodes)
  • 1971: What's a Nice Girl Like You…? (TV movie)
  • 1972: Invitation to a March (TV movie)
  • 1972: The Bravos (TV movie)
  • 1972: The Shadow of a Gunman (TV movie)
  • 1973: The Gondola (TV movie)
  • 1973: Carola (TV movie)
  • 1973: The Man of Destiny (TV movie)
  • 1973: Incident at Vichy (TV movie)
  • 1974: The Carpenters (TV movie)
  • 1974: Double Solitaire (TV movie)
  • 1975: For the Use of the Hall (TV movie)
  • 1975: Knuckle (TV movie)
  • 1976: The Ashes of Mrs. Reasoner (TV movie)
  • 1976: The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (TV movie)
  • 1976: Six Characters in Search of an Author (TV movie)
  • 1977: The Hemingway Play (TV movie)
  • 1978: And the Soul Shall Dance (TV movie)
  • 1978: Actor (TV movie)
  • 1982–1985: The Unbelievable Stories of Roald Dahl ( Tales of the Unexpected , TV series, 12 episodes)

Web links

Commons : Norman Lloyd  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Laura Haefner: Norman Lloyd, Actor in 'St. Elsewhere 'and Hitchcock's' Saboteur,' Dies at 106. In: Variety , May 11, 2021
  2. ↑ a b Actor Norman Lloyd, who worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, dies aged 106. In: The Guardian , May 12, 2021
  3. ↑ a b Erik Pedersen: Norman Lloyd Dies: 'St. Elsewhere 'Actor Who Worked With Welles, Hitchcock & Chaplin Was 106. In: Deadline. May 11, 2021, accessed May 12, 2021 (American English).
  4. ↑ Interview with Orson Welles
  5. ↑ Critic's Notebook: What Norman Lloyd Can Teach Us About the Coronavirus Crisis | Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Interview with Norman Lloyd at AV Film Club
  7. ^ According to an interview with Lloyds about "The Streets of New York" (1939) on YouTube
  8. ^ A b Norman Lloyd at Allmovie
  9. ↑ Norman Lloyd at 100: THR's Todd McCarthy on a Legend's Staying Power | Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 12, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Tim Gray: Norman Lloyd Turns 106: 'He Is the History of Our Industry'. In: Variety. November 8, 2020, accessed November 12, 2020 (American English).
  11. ↑ Craig Campbell: Hollywood's Golden Agers: Norman Lloyd is oldest working actor in Tinseltown at 103. In: The Sunday Post. Retrieved March 11, 2020 (American English).
  12. ↑ Janet W. Lee: Los Angeles Film Critics Association to Honor Norman Lloyd, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Harry Belafonte. In: Variety. October 28, 2020, accessed November 3, 2020 (American English).
  13. ^ A b Norman Lloyd on upstaging Orson Welles and playing tennis with Chaplin. Retrieved May 12, 2021 (American English).
  14. ↑ Broadway thesp Peggy Lloyd dies at 98. In: Variety, August 30, 2011
  15. ^ Meet Norman Lloyd, the 100-year-old star of Trainwreck . In: The Telegraph . August 26, 2015, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed July 2, 2020]).
  16. ^ The Magnificent Memory of Norman Lloyd , interview in the New Yorker
personal data
SURNAME Lloyd, Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lloyd, Norman Nathan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director, producer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City , New Jersey , USA
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Los Angeles , California , USA