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Norman Lloyd 
Norman Lloyd, 2007Born November 8, 1914
Jersey City, New Jersey, United StatesYears active 1939–present Spouse Peggy Lloyd (June 29, 1936–August 30, 2011) (her death) Norman Lloyd (born November 8, 1914) is an American actor, producer, and director with a career in entertainment spanning more than seven decades. Lloyd, who currently resides in Los Angeles, has appeared in over sixty films and television shows.
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Early life and theatre work
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 Shakespeare's 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][dead link]
The 1938 Broadway role in Everywhere I Roam, as Johnny Appleseed, was selected as one of the ten best Broadway performances of the year. Lloyd was also a featured radio actor, including as part of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater and later in Norman Corwin's The Undecided Molecule.
Lloyd met his wife, actress Peggy Lloyd, while both were co-starring in Elia Kazan's play Crime.[2]
Film acting
Lloyd came to Hollywood to play a Nazi spy in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942), starting a long friendship and professional association with Hitchcock.
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.
Post-war career
A marginal victim of the blacklist, Lloyd was rescued professionally by Hitchcock, who had previously used the actor in Saboteur and Spellbound (1945). 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 '70s, being the first-season producer of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected in 1979. He took an unusual role in the Night Gallery episode "A Feast of Blood" as the bearer of a cursed brooch, which he inflicts upon a hapless woman (Sondra Locke) who had spurned his romantic advances. 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 film role was in 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.
In 2010, Lloyd guest-starred in an episode of ABC's Modern Family.[3]
On December 5, 2010 he starred in a one-man show at the Colony Theatre, in Burbank, California, where he spoke of his career and answered questions from the audience, detailing his illustrious and singular path. This is a template for what he hopes to bring to many venues. He is considered to have the final say on all things Hitchcock and Welles and to be a living history of American theatre and film.
His wife of seventy-five years, Peggy, passed away on August 30, 2011, at the age of 98. [2] Their marriage was one of the longest — if not the longest — in Hollywood history.
Filmography
Cinema
Year Film Role Notes 1942 Saboteur Frank Fry 1945 The Southerner Finlay The Unseen Jasper Goodwin Spellbound Mr. Garmes A Walk in the Sun Pvt. Archimbeau 1946 A Letter for Evie DeWitt Pynchon Young Widow Sammy Jackson The Green Years Adam Leckie 1948 Arch of Triumph 1949 Scene of the Crime Sleeper 1950 The Flame and the Arrow Apollo 1951 M Sutro He Ran All the Way Al Molin 1952 Limelight Bodalink 1977 Audrey Rose Dr. Steven Lipscomb 1978 FM Carl Billings 1980 The Nude Bomb Carruthers 1989 Amityville 4 Father Manfred television film Dead Poets Society Mr. Nolan 1993 The Age of Innocence Mr. Letterblair 2000 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Wossamotta U. President 2005 In Her Shoes The Professor TV
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series
- The Scarecrow (play) (1972 televised version)
- St. Elsewhere as Dr. Daniel Auschlander (1983–1988) TV series
- Wiseguy TV series
- Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Chase" as Professor Galen (1993)
- Murder, She Wrote TV series
- Seven Days as Dr. Isaac Mentnor (1998–2000) TV series
- Fail Safe (2000) televised play
- The Practice TV series
- Who is Norman Lloyd?[4] (documentary, 2007)
- Modern Family (2010)
References
- ^ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6127648094674082862&q=norman+lloyd&total=61&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
- ^ a b "Broadway thesp Peggy Lloyd dies at 98". Variety Magazine. 2011-08-30. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118041995?refCatId=15. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
- ^ "Keck's Exclusives: St. Elsewhere Vet Guests on Modern Family". TVGuide.com. 2010-10-15. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Kecks-Exclusives-St-1024427.aspx. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
- ^ Who Is Norman Lloyd?
External links
- Norman Lloyd at the Internet Movie Database
- Norman Lloyd at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- BN bio
- Vidiot.com bio and photo
- Stage work
- Archive of American Television: Norman Lloyd
- Who is Norman Lloyd? film website
- The Man Who Fell Off The Statue of Liberty: An Interview with Norman Lloyd (TCM's Movie Morlocks)
Categories:- 1914 births
- Actors from New Jersey
- Actors from New York
- American film actors
- American stage actors
- American television directors
- American television producers
- Living people
- People from New York City
- People from Jersey City, New Jersey
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