Of his final screen role, Lloyd later complained, “I appreciated Apatow’s choice of me for his film but was upset he didn’t put me in any of the hot scenes.”ĭeadline’s Todd McCarthy wrote an appreciation of Lloyd on the occasion of the actor’s 106th birthday and receiving the Legacy Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association last year. Lloyd led a busy social life in Hollywood - with his friends ranging from Jean Renoir to Buster Keaton to Judd Apatow, who cast him with Amy Schumer in Trainwreck. Lloyd’s roughly two dozen film roles included Hitchcock’s Gregory Peck-Ingrid Bergman thriller Spellbound (1945), starring opposite comedy legends Buster Keaton and Chaplin in 1952’s Limelight - which the Little Tramp also wrote and directed - Audrey Rose (1977), FM (1978), Get Smart! redux The Nude Bomb (1980), The Age of Innocence (1993) and Trainwreck (2015). He also was executive producer of PBS’ Hollywood Television Theatre (1970-78).
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He also directed for such series as Chevron Theatre, Omnibus, The Adventures of Kit Carson and several TV movies during that genre’s heyday in the 1970s.
His numerous other TV credits range from guesting on the 1950s series Kraft Theatre and One Step Beyond to such popular dramas as Night Gallery, Kojak, Wiseguy, Tales of the Unexpected, an early Modern Family episode, recurring on The Practice and regular roles on the short-lived 1992 NBC comedy Home Fires and UPN’s 1998-2001 sci-fi drama Seven Days. Elsewhere below, as part of the Television Academy Foundation’s The Interviews series:ĭuring the 1970s, he earned Emmy nominations for the NBC adventure series The Name of the Game as a producer and telefilm Steambath as an EP. Watch Lloyd talking about being cast in St. Eligius docs visited the bar where everybody knows your name. Elsewhere characters who appeared in a Cheers crossover episode, when the St. It wasn’t a ratings hit - never finishing in the year-end Top 30 in a three-network TV universe - but won 13 Emmys among 62 nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series in all of its seasons. He was with Boston-set hospital drama for its entire six-season run from 1982-88. Daniel Auschlander, a veteran physician who dealt with his own liver cancer diagnosis and chemo.
Lloyd was in his late 60s when he was cast on NBC’s St. Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery Lloyd in ‘St. On television, he directed most of Hitchcock’s suspense pieces - winning a Special Mention for Alfred Hitchcock Presents from the Venice Film Festival in 1985 - and starred on the NBC medical drama St.
Lloyd himself generously offered start-up jobs to many well-known filmmakers, such as Billy Friedkin. When the filmmaker ran into his proverbial budget problems, Lloyd quit the project and returned to New York, later making his screen debut as the villainous spy who fell from the top of the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur (1942). He originally was cast in Welles’ epic Citizen Kane and accompanied the director to Hollywood. Todd McCarthy Remembers Hollywood Legend Norman Lloyd Lloyd and Hitchcock on set of ‘Saboteur,’ 1942 Everett Collection
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