36 Facts About Norman Lloyd

Norman Nathan Lloyd was an American actor, producer, director, and centenarian with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century.

Norman Lloyd worked in every major facet of the industry, including theatre, radio, television, and film, with a career that started in 1923.

Norman Lloyd remained the longest-lived male actor from Classic Hollywood until his death in 2021.

Norman Lloyd appeared in Spellbound, and was a producer of Hitchcock's anthology television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Norman Lloyd directed and produced episodic television throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

Norman Lloyd's family was Jewish and lived in Brooklyn, New York.

Norman Lloyd's father, Max Perlmutter, was an accountant who later became a salesman and proprietor of a furniture store.

Norman Lloyd's mother, Sadie Horowitz Perlmutter, was a bookkeeper and housewife.

Norman Lloyd had a good voice and a lifelong interest in the theatre, and she took her young son to singing and dancing lessons.

Norman Lloyd had two sisters, Ruth and Janice, who survived her brother by four months.

Norman Lloyd became a child performer, appearing at vaudeville benefits and women's clubs, and was a professional by the age of nine.

Norman Lloyd graduated from high school when he was 15 and began studies at New York University, but left at the end of his sophomore year.

In 1932, at age 17, Norman Lloyd auditioned and became the youngest of the apprentices under the direction of May Sarton at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City.

Norman Lloyd then joined Sarton's Apprentice Theatre in New Hampshire, continuing his studies with her and her associate, Eleanor Flexner.

Norman Lloyd rejoined Sarton's group, for whom Losey directed a Boston production of Gods of the Lightning.

When Orson Welles and John Houseman left the Federal Theatre Project to form their own independent repertory theatre company, the Mercury Theatre, Norman Lloyd was invited to become a charter member.

Norman 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.

Norman Lloyd played the role of Johnny Appleseed in Everywhere I Roam, a play by Arnold Sundgaard that was developed by the Federal Theatre Project and staged on Broadway by Marc Connelly.

Welles asked the actors to stay a few more weeks as he put together another film project, but Norman Lloyd was ill-advised by a member of the radio company and impulsively returned to New York.

Norman Lloyd later returned to Hollywood to play a Nazi spy in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur, beginning a long friendship and professional association with Hitchcock.

Previously, Norman Lloyd directed the sponsored film A Word to the Wives with Marsha Hunt and Darren McGavin.

Norman Lloyd continued directing and producing episodic television throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Norman Lloyd took an unusual role in the Night Gallery episode "A Feast of Blood" as the bearer of a cursed brooch, which he inflicts upon a hapless woman, played by Sondra Locke, who had spurned his romantic advances.

In FM, Norman Lloyd has a small but pivotal role as the owner of a Los Angeles radio station that is undergoing a mutiny of sorts, due to a battle over advertising.

Norman Lloyd's character ends up playing the white hat role and keeping the station as is, to the delight of staff and fans.

Originally scheduled for only four episodes, Norman Lloyd became a regular for the rest of the series.

Norman Lloyd agreed to audition for him after winning his daily tennis match.

Norman Lloyd played in various radio plays for Peggy Webber's California Artists Radio Theater and Yuri Rasovsky's Hollywood Theater of the Ear.

On June 29,1936, Norman Lloyd married stage actress Peggy Craven.

Norman Lloyd began practicing his lifelong hobby of tennis at the age of 8.

Norman Lloyd's opponents included Charlie Chaplin, Joseph Cotten, and Spencer Tracy.

Norman Lloyd continued to play twice a week until July 2015, when he had a fall.

Norman Lloyd is a constant inspiration, and my eternal friend"; Mandel added, "I love Norman Lloyd.

On October 25,2017, two weeks before his 103rd birthday, Norman Lloyd attended Game 2 of the 2017 World Series in Los Angeles.

Norman Lloyd died in his sleep at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on May 11,2021, at the age of 106.

In Me and Orson Welles, Richard Linklater's period drama set in the days surrounding the premiere of the Mercury Theatre's production of Caesar, Norman Lloyd is portrayed by Leo Bill.