![]() In 2015, he appeared in the Amy Schumer comedy Trainwreck. The wiry, 5-foot-5 Lloyd, whose energy was boundless off-screen as well, continued to play tennis into his 90s. “If modern film history has a voice, it is Norman Lloyd’s,” reviewer Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2012 after Lloyd regaled a Cannes Film Festival crowd with anecdotes about rarified friends and colleagues including Charlie Chaplin and Jean Renoir. His credits stretch from the earliest known US TV drama, 1939′s On the Streets of New York on the nascent NBC network, to 21st-century projects including Modern Family and The Practice. Lloyd's son, Michael Lloyd, said his father died Tuesday at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Elsewhere, has died at 106.(Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Lloyd, known for his role as a kindly doctor on TV's St. (File Photo) Norman Lloyd poses before a 50th anniversary screening of the film The Sound of Music at the opening night gala of the TCM Classic Film Festival on March 26, 2015, in Los Angeles. Elsewhere was a single chapter in a distinguished stage and screen career that put him in the company of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin and other greats, has died. ![]() He was immediately hired and eventually worked as executive producer on another series, “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr Daniel Auschlander on TV’s St. “He said three words: ‘I want him,'” Lloyd said. When the famed director sought to hire Lloyd as associate producer on his series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” but was told “There is a problem with Norman Lloyd,” Hitchcock didn’t back down, Lloyd recalled. In 1957, Hitchcock came to his rescue, Lloyd told the Los Angeles Times in 2014. ![]() Lloyd worked steadily as a TV actor and director in the early 1950s, but the political liberal found his career in jeopardy during the Hollywood blacklist period aimed at communists or their sympathizers. The series would inspire such shows as “E.R.” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” Daniel Auschlander was originally only supposed to appear in a few episodes, but Lloyd became a series regular and stayed with the show for the entire run. Eligius hospital on the 1982-99 NBC drama series “St. TV viewers knew him best as the memorable calm center of St. The couple were married for 75 years, until Peggy Lloyd’s death in 2011 at age 98. His other plays included “Crime,” directed by Elia Kazan and featuring his future wife, Peggy Craven. On stage, he was a regular with Welles’ Mercury Theater, the groundbreaking 1930s troupe that also featured Joseph Cotton and Agnes Moorehead and formed the basis of Welles’ classic film debut, “Citizen Kane.” 8, 1914, in Jersey City, New Jersey, Lloyd jumped into acting as a youngster in the 1920s. Stage magazine put Welles on its June cover and proclaimed the production “one of the most exciting dramatic events of our time.”īorn Nov. Norman played the small but key role of Cinna the Poet, opposite Welles’ Brutus. He was also part of Welles’ 1937 modern-dress fascist-era production of “Julius Caesar” that has gone down in history as one of the landmark stage pieces in the American theater. On Broadway, Lloyd played the Fool opposite Louis Calhern’s King Lear in 1950, co-starred with Jessica Tandy in the comedy “Madam, Will You Walk” and directed Jerry Stiller in “The Taming of the Shrew” in 1957. In 2015, he appeared in the Amy Schumer comedy “Trainwreck.” Elsewhere” in the 1980s. (Associated Press Archives) ![]() TV drama, 1939’s “On the Streets of New York” on the nascent NBC network, to 21st-century projects including “Modern Family” and “The Practice.” William Daniels, left, Ed Flanders, center, and Norman Lloyd starred on “St. His credits stretch from the earliest known U.S. Lloyd manager, Marion Rosenberg, said the actor died Tuesday at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Elsewhere” was a single chapter in a distinguished stage and screen career that put him in the company of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin and other greats, has died. LOS ANGELES - Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr. By Lynn Elber and Mark Kennedy | Associated Press ![]()
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