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{{Short description|American actor, producer and director (1914–2021)}}
{{For|other people with this name|Norman Lloyd (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Norman Lloyd
| image = Norman Lloyd
| caption = Lloyd in
| birthname = Norman Nathan Perlmutter
| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|11|8}}
| birth_place = [[Jersey City, New Jersey]], [[U.S.]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|5|11|1914|11|8}}
| death_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.<!--Per template doc, city, state, country. No boroughs etc.-->
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|director|producer}}
| education = [[New York University]] (dropped out)
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Peggy Lloyd|Peggy Craven]]|June 29, 1936|August 30, 2011|reason=died}}
| children = 2, including [[Josie Lloyd]]
| years_active =
}}
'''Norman Nathan Lloyd''' (''né'' '''Perlmutter'''; November 8, 1914 – May 11, 2021) was an American actor, producer, director, and centenarian with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century. He worked in every major facet of the industry, including theatre, radio, television, and film, with a career that started in 1923. Lloyd's final film, ''[[Trainwreck (film)|Trainwreck]]'', was released in 2015, after he [[Centenarian|turned 100]]. Lloyd remains the longest-lived male actor from Classic Hollywood.
In the 1930s, he apprenticed with [[Eva Le Gallienne]]'s [[Civic Repertory Theatre]] and worked with such influential groups as the [[Federal Theatre Project]]'s [[Living Newspaper]] unit, the [[Mercury Theatre]], and the [[Group Theatre (New York City)|Group Theatre]]. Lloyd's long professional association with [[Alfred Hitchcock]] began with his performance portraying a
==Early life and theatre==
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Through Losey, Lloyd became involved in the social theatre of the 1930s, beginning with an acting collective called The Theatre of Action. The group was preparing a production of [[Michael Blankfort]]'s ''The Crime'' (1936),<ref name="Stages"/>{{Rp|236}}
<ref name="The Crime">{{cite book |last=Blankfort |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Blankfort |date=1936 |title=The Crime |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002619027 |location=New York |publisher=New Theatre League |access-date=September 7, 2015 |archive-date=August 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808192339/https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002619027 |url-status=live }}</ref> directed by [[Elia Kazan]]. One of the company members was [[Peggy Lloyd|Peggy Craven]], who would later become Lloyd's wife.<ref name="Stages"/>{{Rp|28}}<ref name=variety>{{cite news|title=Broadway thesp Peggy Lloyd dies at 98|url=https://
Losey brought Lloyd into the [[Federal Theatre Project]] — which Lloyd called "one of the great theaters of all time"<ref name="Lloyd 2014">{{cite web |url=http://eatdrinkfilms.com/2014/07/17/orson-welles-world-and-were-just-living-in-it-a-conversation-with-norman-lloyd/ |title=Orson Welles' World, and We're Just Living in It: A Conversation with Norman Lloyd |last=Lattanzio |first=Ryan |date=2014 |website=EatDrinkFilms.com |access-date=September 6, 2015 |archive-date=September 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919113159/http://eatdrinkfilms.com/2014/07/17/orson-welles-world-and-were-just-living-in-it-a-conversation-with-norman-lloyd/ |url-status=live }}</ref>— and its [[Living Newspaper]]s,<ref name="Stages"/>{{Rp|31}} which dramatized contemporary events. They initially prepared ''Ethiopia'', about [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|the Italian invasion]], which was deemed too controversial and was terminated. The first completed presentation was ''Triple-A Plowed Under'' (1936), followed by ''Injunction Granted'' (1936) and ''Power'' (1937).<ref name="Stages"/>{{Rp|236}}
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When [[Orson Welles]] and [[John Houseman]] left the Federal Theatre Project to form their own independent [[repertory theatre]] company, the Mercury Theatre, Lloyd was invited to become a charter member. He played a memorable role in its first stage production, ''[[Caesar (Mercury Theatre)|Caesar]]'' (1937), Welles's modern-dress adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' — streamlined into an [[anti-fascism|anti-fascist]] tour-de-force. In a scene that became the fulcrum of the show, [[Helvius Cinna|Cinna the Poet]] (Lloyd) dies at the hands not of a mob but of a secret police force. Lloyd called it "an extraordinary scene [that] gripped the audience in a way that the show stopped for about three minutes. The audience stopped it with applause. It showed the audience what fascism was; rather than an intellectual approach, you saw a physical one."<ref name="Lloyd 2014"/>
The Mercury prepared ''[[The Shoemaker's Holiday]]'' to go into repertory with ''Caesar'' beginning in January 1938. During the December 25 performance of ''Caesar'' — when the sets, lighting, and costumes for ''Shoemaker'' were ready but no previews had
Lloyd performed on the first of four releases in the Mercury Text Records series, phonographic recordings of Shakespeare plays adapted for educators by Welles and Roger Hill. ''The Merchant of Venice'' features Lloyd in the roles of Salanio and Launcelot Gobbo.<ref name="Mercury Shakespeare">{{cite book |last1=Welles |first1=Orson |author-link1=Orson Welles |last2=Hill |first2=Roger |title=The Mercury Shakespeare |location=New York, London |publisher=Harper & Brothers |date=1939 |oclc=413059}}</ref> Released on [[Columbia Masterworks Records]] in 1939,<ref name="Columbia C Sets">{{cite book |url=http://www.78discography.com/ColumbiaAlbums.htm |title=Columbia Standard C Album Sets |publisher=Hopper Columbia Discography |isbn=978-1-4478-4414-3 |access-date=September 7, 2015 |archive-date=August 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812001439/http://78discography.com/ColumbiaAlbums.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> the recording was reissued on CD in 1998.<ref name="Pearl Merchant">{{cite book |title=The Merchant of Venice |location=E. Sussex, England |publisher=Pearl (GEMS 0029), Pavilion Records Ltd. |date=1998 |isbn=1899644229 |oclc=44617179}}</ref>
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Lloyd's first film role in nearly a decade was in ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'' (1989), playing Mr. Nolan, the authoritarian headmaster of Welton Academy, opposite [[Robin Williams]].<ref name="Trainwreck"/> Initially, Lloyd was hesitant when asked to audition, because he thought the director and producers could judge whether or not he was right for the part by watching his acting on ''St. Elsewhere''.<ref name="Robin">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/robin-williams-dead-poets-society-724841|title=Robin Williams' 'Dead Poets Society' Nemesis Pays Tribute (Exclusive)|date=August 12, 2014|access-date=February 20, 2017|author=Scott Fienberg|magazine=Hollywood Reporter|archive-date=February 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220172818/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/robin-williams-dead-poets-society-724841|url-status=live}}</ref> Director [[Peter Weir]] was living in Australia and had not seen ''St. Elsewhere''.<ref name="Robin"/> Lloyd agreed to audition for him after winning his daily tennis match.<ref name="Trainwreck"/>
From 1998 to 2001, he played Dr. Isaac Mentnor in the [[UPN]] science fiction drama ''[[Seven Days (TV series)|Seven Days]]''.<ref name="Trainwreck"/> His numerous television guest-star appearances include ''The Joseph Cotten Show''; ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''; ''[[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''; ''[[Wiseguy (TV series)|Wiseguy]]''; ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'';<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-13 |title=Norman Lloyd, distinguished actor whose character introduced the Kurlan naiskos to Star Trek: The Next Generation, has died at 106 |url=https://www.dailystartreknews.com/read/norman-lloyd-distinguished-actor-whose-character-introduced-the-kurlan-naiskos-to-star-trek-the-next-generation-has-died-at-106 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=www.dailystartreknews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Wings (NBC TV series)|Wings]]''; ''[[The Practice]]''; and ''[[Civil Wars (TV series)|Civil Wars]]''.<ref name="Trainwreck"/>
He played in various radio plays for [[Peggy Webber]]'s California Artists Radio Theater and [[Yuri Rasovsky]]'s [[Hollywood Theater of the Ear]]. His last film role was in ''[[Trainwreck (film)|Trainwreck]]'' (2015) in which he acted
==Personal life and death==
[[File:Norman Lloyd 2007.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Lloyd in 2007]]
On June 29, 1936, Lloyd married stage actress [[Peggy Lloyd|Peggy Craven]]. Together, they had two children: Michael, and actress [[Josie Lloyd|Josie]], who died the year before Lloyd.<ref name="variety" />
Lloyd began practicing his lifelong hobby of tennis at the age of 8. "With the application and time I have devoted to it, I should have been a reigning World Champion", he said in a 2000 interview.<ref name="AAT">{{cite web |url=http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/norman-lloyd |title=Norman Lloyd Interview |date=September 7, 2000 |publisher=[[Archive of American Television]] |access-date=September 6, 2015 |archive-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511213113/https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/norman-lloyd |url-status=live }}</ref> His opponents included [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[Joseph Cotten]], and [[Spencer Tracy]]. Lloyd continued to play twice a week<ref>{{cite news|first=Susan|last=King|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/12/entertainment/la-et-mn-classic-hollywood-norman-lloyd-20140413|date=April 12, 2014|title=UCLA Honors the Daring Work of Norman Lloyd|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305232955/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/12/entertainment/la-et-mn-classic-hollywood-norman-lloyd-20140413|url-status=
Lloyd [[centenarian|turned 100]] on November 8, 2014.<ref name="Foundas Variety">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/features/norman-lloyd-at-100-hollywoods-living-memory-1201345747/ |title=Norman Lloyd at 100: Hollywood's Living Memory |last=Foundas |first=Scott |date=November 7, 2014 |work=Variety |access-date=September 6, 2015 |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905143558/http://variety.com/2014/film/features/norman-lloyd-at-100-hollywoods-living-memory-1201345747/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Two of his longtime friends and understudies, [[Ed Begley Jr.]] and [[Howie Mandel]] (both of whom co-starred with Lloyd on ''St. Elsewhere''), reflected on his centenarian celebration; Begley, Jr. said: "I [have] worked with Norman Lloyd the actor and Norman Lloyd the director, and no one [has] informed me better on the art of storytelling than that talented man. He is a constant inspiration, and my eternal friend"; Mandel added, "I love Norman Lloyd. He is a legend. I have spent hours like a little kid while he regaled us with stories of Hitchcock. He teaches, he entertains. He is a legend."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvparty.com/1-norman-lloyd.html |title=Norman Lloyd |website=TVParty.com |date=November 8, 2014 |access-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-date=April 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411162122/http://www.tvparty.com/1-norman-lloyd.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
On October 25, 2017, two weeks before his 103rd birthday, Lloyd attended Game 2 of the [[2017 World Series]] in Los Angeles.
Lloyd died in his sleep at his home in the [[Brentwood, Los Angeles|Brentwood]] neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on May 11, 2021, at the age of 106.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bernstein |first1=Adam |title=Norman Lloyd, character actor who dangled from Lady Liberty in 'Saboteur,' dies at 106 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/norman-lloyd-dead/2021/05/11/0041ec7c-402f-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=May 11, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Died">{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/norman-lloyd-dead-106-1234951530/|title=Norman Lloyd, Star of 'Saboteur' and 'St. Elsewhere,' Dies at 106|work=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Mike|last=Barnes|date=May 11, 2021|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511230338/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/norman-lloyd-dead-106-1234951530/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/tv-norman-lloyd-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-92e186becb7446dde5615bef2f900411|title='Saboteur,' 'St. Elsewhere' star Norman Lloyd dies at 106|first1=Lynn|last1=Elber|first2=Mark|last2=Kennedy|work=AP News|date=May 11, 2021|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=May 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512000530/https://apnews.com/article/tv-norman-lloyd-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-92e186becb7446dde5615bef2f900411|url-status=live}}</ref>
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In ''[[Me and Orson Welles]]'' (2008), [[Richard Linklater]]'s period drama set in the days surrounding the premiere of the Mercury Theatre's production of ''Caesar'', Lloyd is portrayed by [[Leo Bill]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/me-and-orson-welles-1200470866/ |title=Film Review: Me and Orson Welles |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |author-link=Todd McCarthy |date=September 6, 2008 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=September 7, 2015 |archive-date=November 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111165551/https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/me-and-orson-welles-1200470866/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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===As actor===
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| ''[[Cavalcade of America]]''
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| "Listen to the People"<ref name="Goldin Cavalcade">{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The%20Cavalcade%20Of%20America |title=The Cavalcade of America |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=September 7, 2015 |archive-date=December 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224214438/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The%20Cavalcade%20of%20America |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Archive Cavalcade">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Cavalcade_of_America_Singles |title=The Cavalcade of America |date=July 30, 2010 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=September 8, 2015}}</ref>
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| July 12, 1943
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===As actor===
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| ''[[The Dark Secret of Harvest Home]]''
| Amrys Penrose
| <ref name="Rotten Tomatoes">{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/norman_lloyd|title=Norman Lloyd|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=May 11, 2021}}</ref><ref name=BFI>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1dccb3e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103032031/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1dccb3e|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 3, 2019|title=Norman Lloyd|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=May 11, 2021}}</ref>
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| 1978
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| ''Journey of Honor''
| Father Vasco
| <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a53df7b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604032316/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a53df7b|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 4, 2020|title=Shogun Mayeda (1992)|newspaper=Bfi |publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=May 11, 2021}}</ref>
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| 1993
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| ''A Place for Heroes''
| Older Robert
| <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA2FaGexGCo | title=A Place for Heroes (Norman Lloyd) - Official Trailer | website=YouTube | date=May 9, 2018 }}</ref>
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| 2015
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| 1956
| ''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]''
| Andrew J.
| Episode: "Paper Foxhole"
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| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Lieutenant Orsatti
| Season 2 Episode 16: "Nightmare in 4D"
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| 1957
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| 1958
| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Charles Brailing
| Season 4 Episode 6: "Design for Loving"
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| 1959
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| 1960
| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Narrator
| Season 5 Episode 20: "The Day of the Bullet"
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| 1960
| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| The Little Man
| Season 5 Episode 25: "The Little Man Who Was There"<ref name="Stages"/>{{Rp|241}}
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| 1960
| ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''
| Hotel manager
| Season 1 Episode 6: "Slezak and Son"{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
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| 1961
| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Leo Thorby
| Season 7 Episode 3: "Maria"
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| 1970
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