Norman Lloyd, Actor in 'St. Elsewhere' and Hitchcock's 'Saboteur,' Dies at 106
Source: Variety
By Laura Haefner
Actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd, best known for his title role in Hitchcocks Saboteur and as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBCs St. Elsewhere and famously associated with Orson Welles Mercury Theater, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 106.
His friend, producer Dean Hargrove, confirmed his death and said His third act was really the best time of his life, referring to the many historical Hollywood retrospectives and events Lloyd had participated in over the past few decades. Lloyd often said his secret to his long and mostly illness-free life was avoiding disagreeable people, Hargrove recounted.
Lloyd was hand-picked by Alfred Hitchcock to play the title character and villain in 1942s Saboteur, and it was his character who tumbled to his death from the top of the Statue of Liberty in the pics iconic conclusion.
But the hard-working multihyphenate gained his highest profile only in his late 60s and 70s when he appeared as the wise physician Dr. Auschlander on NBCs prestige medical drama St. Elsewhere from 1982-88.
AP Photo/George Brich
Read more: https://variety.com/2021/legit/people-news/norman-lloyd-dead-st-elsewhere-saboteur-1234970920/
Goonch
(3,551 posts)According to the American Film Institute, in Saboteur, Hitchcock was able to "create one of the more ambitious sequences of '40s cinema: Cummings hair-raising struggle with Norman Lloyd on a then-convincing replica of the Statue of Liberty's torch, which remains effective even some seventy years after it was shot.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,044 posts)He was only 90 then.
peppertree
(21,530 posts)He was always one of those supporting actors whom everyone recognized - but few could actually name.
Well, he outlived'em all!
Godspeed.
PSPS
(13,516 posts)Bucky
(53,798 posts)Norman Lloyd is such a calming presence on that show. His voice, his stillness and centeredness on camera, he was a wonderful, gifted, and inspirational actor.
I'm grateful for his gifts to us
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)orleans
(33,987 posts)tonekat
(1,805 posts)It would lose the utter surprise and twist in a description.
orleans
(33,987 posts)don't get netflix, and the dvds are horribly expensive.
it doesn't matter. my life will go on without knowing.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)The vast majority of people over 100 are women but you do get the occasional Norman Lloyd.
Used to religiously watch St. Elsewhere.
BTW speaking of plus 100 year old people my recent favorite was the lady, I think from England, who was 117, contracted Covid and survived it....and was shown standing up reveling in it. Of course she has 6 years to go for the acknowledged oldest age, a few who lived to 123.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)It was one of the longest celebrity marriages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_marriage
He was a good actor. I liked a lot of movies that he was in.
VGNonly
(7,431 posts)the prickly headmaster in Dead Poets Society.