Norman Lloyd, known for his collaborations with directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Charlie Chaplin, passed away in his Los Angeles home at the age of 106. Lloyd got his big start in cinema after being hand-picked by Alfred Hitchcock to play Frank Fry in the 1942 film Saboteur, in which a man goes on the run after being falsely accused of sabotage. Before that, Lloyd had been working as a cast member with the theater company Mercury Theater, which was co-run by Welles. Lloyd would go on to appear in multiple films and TV shows, including Dead Poet's Society, Age of Innocence, and TV medical drama St. Elsewhere, which ran from 1982-1988.

Over the course of his multi-decade career, Lloyd not only acted in film, TV, and theater, but also went on to become a prolific television producer and director. Between the years 1960 and 1985, he accumulated 39 producing credits for TV series and movies such as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Journey to the Unknown. Lloyd worked in film as late as 2015, when at the age of 100 he played Norman in the romantic comedy Trainwreck, starring Amy Schumer and Bill Hader.

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Lloyd's son, Michael Lloyd, announced that in the early morning of Tuesday, May 11, Lloyd died peacefully in his sleep. This was also confirmed to Variety by Lloyd's friend, producer Dean Hargrove, though neither gave a cause of death. In confirming Lloyd's death, Hargrove said of his later years: "His third act was really the best time of his life."  Lloyd became lovingly known as a sort of living history of old Hollywood, traveling the country for speaking engagements and historical Hollywood Retrospectives to speak about his experiences with the many household names with which he brushed elbows over the course of his career.

Norman Lloyd On Stage

Lloyd was born in 1914 and grew up in New York. By the age of 9, he became a professional performer, appearing in vaudeville acts and at women's clubs. After graduating high school at the age of 15, Lloyd attended New York University. At 17, he became an apprentice at Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City before eventually working for Mercury Theater. Lloyd was then given the chance to have a role in Citizen Kane, which would go on to become one of the most famous films of all time, but turned it down for financial reasons as the film was not a sure success.

Despite the fact that Lloyd would never go on to be a household name like some of his counterparts, he had an extremely illustrious career. This theme was explored in the documentary Who is Norman Lloyd, which premiered in 2007 to favorable reviews. Additionally, Lloyd will be remembered each day on his birthday, November 8, in Los Angeles, as in 2015 the Los Angeles City Council proclaimed that the day would be known as "Norman Lloyd Day."

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Source: Variety