Norman Lloyd (born Norman Perlmutter; November 8, 1914) is an American
actor, producer and director with a career in entertainment spanning
nine decades. He has worked in every major facet of the industry
including theatre, radio, television and film, with a career that
started in 1923 and his last film to date, Trainwreck, released in
2015.In the 1930s, he apprenticed with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic
Repertory Theatre and worked with such influential groups as the
Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspaper unit, the Mercury Theatre
and the Group Theatre. Lloyd's long professional association with
Alfred Hitchcock began with his performance portraying a Nazi agent in
the film Saboteur (1942). He also appeared in Spellbound (1945), and
was a producer of Hitchcock's anthology television series, Alfred
Hitchcock Presents. Lloyd directed and produced episodic television
throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. As an actor, he has appeared in
over 60 films and television shows, with his roles including Bodalink
in Limelight, Mr. Nolan in Dead Poets Society (1989) and Mr.
Letterblair in The Age of Innocence (1993). In the 1980s, Lloyd gained
a new generation of fans for playing Dr. Daniel Auschlander, one of
the starring roles on the medical drama St. Elsewhere.Norman Lloyd was
born Norman Perlmutter on November 8, 1914, in Jersey City, New
Jersey. His family was Jewish and lived in Brooklyn, New York. His
father, Max Perlmutter (1890â€"1945), was an accountant who later
became a salesman and proprietor of a furniture store. His mother,
Sadie Horowitz Perlmutter (1892â€"1987), was a bookkeeper and
housewife. She had a good voice and a lifelong interest in the
theatre, and she took her young son to singing and dancing lessons.:1
He had two sisters, Ruth (1918-1962) and Janice (b. 1923). Lloyd
became a child performer, appearing at vaudeville benefits and women's
clubs, and was a professional by the age of nine.:3Lloyd graduated
from high school when he was 15 and began studies at New York
University, but left at the end of his sophomore year. "All around me
I could see the way the Depression was affecting everyone; for my
family, for people in business like my father, it was a terrible
time," he wrote. "I just wasn't going to stay in college, paying
tuition to get a degree to be a lawyer, when I could see lawyers that
had become taxi drivers.":4 Lloyd's father died in 1945, at age 55,
"broken by the world that he was living in."
actor, producer and director with a career in entertainment spanning
nine decades. He has worked in every major facet of the industry
including theatre, radio, television and film, with a career that
started in 1923 and his last film to date, Trainwreck, released in
2015.In the 1930s, he apprenticed with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic
Repertory Theatre and worked with such influential groups as the
Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspaper unit, the Mercury Theatre
and the Group Theatre. Lloyd's long professional association with
Alfred Hitchcock began with his performance portraying a Nazi agent in
the film Saboteur (1942). He also appeared in Spellbound (1945), and
was a producer of Hitchcock's anthology television series, Alfred
Hitchcock Presents. Lloyd directed and produced episodic television
throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. As an actor, he has appeared in
over 60 films and television shows, with his roles including Bodalink
in Limelight, Mr. Nolan in Dead Poets Society (1989) and Mr.
Letterblair in The Age of Innocence (1993). In the 1980s, Lloyd gained
a new generation of fans for playing Dr. Daniel Auschlander, one of
the starring roles on the medical drama St. Elsewhere.Norman Lloyd was
born Norman Perlmutter on November 8, 1914, in Jersey City, New
Jersey. His family was Jewish and lived in Brooklyn, New York. His
father, Max Perlmutter (1890â€"1945), was an accountant who later
became a salesman and proprietor of a furniture store. His mother,
Sadie Horowitz Perlmutter (1892â€"1987), was a bookkeeper and
housewife. She had a good voice and a lifelong interest in the
theatre, and she took her young son to singing and dancing lessons.:1
He had two sisters, Ruth (1918-1962) and Janice (b. 1923). Lloyd
became a child performer, appearing at vaudeville benefits and women's
clubs, and was a professional by the age of nine.:3Lloyd graduated
from high school when he was 15 and began studies at New York
University, but left at the end of his sophomore year. "All around me
I could see the way the Depression was affecting everyone; for my
family, for people in business like my father, it was a terrible
time," he wrote. "I just wasn't going to stay in college, paying
tuition to get a degree to be a lawyer, when I could see lawyers that
had become taxi drivers.":4 Lloyd's father died in 1945, at age 55,
"broken by the world that he was living in."
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