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- Birth nameNorman Perlmutter
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- Norman Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Sadie (Horowitz), a housewife and singer, and Max Perlmutter, a furniture store manager. His family was Jewish (from Hungary and Russia). He began his acting career in the theater, first "treading the boards" at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory in New York. Aspiring to work as a classical repertory player, he gradually shed his Brooklyn accent and became a busy stage actor in the 1930s; he next joined the original company of the Orson Welles-John Houseman Mercury Theatre. Lloyd was brought to Hollywood to play a supporting part (albeit the title role) in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942). Hitchcock, who later used the actor in Spellbound (1945) and other films, made him an associate producer and a director on TV's long-running Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (then in its third year). In the course of his eight years on the series, Lloyd became a co-producer (with Joan Harrison) and then executive producer. He has since directed for other series (including the prestigious Omnibus (1952)) and for the stage, produced TV's Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and Journey to the Unknown (1968), and played Dr. Auschlander in TV's acclaimed St. Elsewhere (1982).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- SpousePeggy Lloyd(June 29, 1936 - August 30, 2011) (her death, 2 children)
- ChildrenMichael Lloyd
- ParentsMax PerlmutterSadell Horowitz
- Short stature
- Rich professorial tone
- Always liked to tell stories of his past experiences.
- Mid-Atlantic, commanding voice
- Norman Lloyd's 75-year marriage to Peggy Lloyd was one of the longest - if not the longest - in show business history. The two met in 1927 while both were appearing on Broadway in 'Crime'. She died exactly two months after their 75th wedding anniversary in 2011, just 16 days after her 98th birthday.
- Lloyd was invited to a cocktail party at the home of his friend, Blythe Danner and her husband, Bruce Paltrow, who was head of MTM productions. During the party, Lloyd was asked him to play one of the lead roles, Dr. Daniel Auschlander, in St. Elsewhere (1982) though it was intended for only a few episodes. Despite Lloyd's busy schedule, he accepted the role, which grew to include the entire run of the series.
- His idol when he was very young was Charles Chaplin. He would later be friends with him for 30 years until Chaplin's death on Christmas Day, 1977.
- Was 100 years old while filming his supporting role in the 2015 Judd Apatow/Amy Schumer comedy Trainwreck (2015). Lloyd said in several interviews (including the London Telegraph's and the New Jersey Star-Ledger's) that this was the first project in his whole career that he had ever had to improvise during a performance. Although Lloyd did not exactly have to audition for the movie, he did meet Apatow for lunch to discuss the role. Lloyd claimed that Apatow was surprised that Lloyd, then 99, had driven himself to the appointment; Apatow offered to accompany him to his car. Lloyd surmised that the walk back to his car was part of the job interview, so that Apatow could confirm he was ambulatory. Apatow later expressed his amazement at Lloyd's independence, observing that he flew to New York and arrived on set alone, never asked for special services, and never needed to take breaks during filming.
- November 8, 2014 was declared by the Los Angeles City Council 'Norman Lloyd Day' in honor of his hundredth birthday.
- When I see that I mourn for my lost hair. It was red.
- [on what film that can accomplish that theater can't] For one thing, it's the record of a performance. The theater is ephemeral, it's gossamer. And films can reach many, many more people than a theater performance can reach by distribution. In a major sense, films are a record that the theater cannot keep.
- [on Orson Welles] He was a genius. But (John) Houseman used to talk about Orson's self-destructiveness, and the not-finishing-things side. And then there was the ego. ... You know he and Welles were partners, and then that dissolved, and years later, Houseman was producing 'Julius Caesar' with Marlon Brando. And Orson ran into him at Chasen's and shouted, 'You son of a bitch, you stole my play!' His play, mind you, not William Shakespeare's. And then he threw a flaming can of Sterno at him. So you had that with Orson, too.
- [1979] Milly remains to this day, a rebel.
- [2003] Now, you begin to look at the cop from that vantage point, that the person who best understands the criminal mind-set is the policeman, and you've got an interesting dynamic.
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