Lloyd kept busy until the end of his life, appearing on red carpets and giving talks, and in 1993 published the memoir "Stages of Life in Theater, Film and Television." In 2007, he was the subject of the documentary "Who Is Norman Lloyd?" The film's title captured his mystique as a man known throughout Hollywood, yet who had never become a household name. She said to him 'Norman, how long have we been married?' He replied, 'seventy years.' She said, 'I think we’re going to make it.' I miss him already." He loved to tell this story about his wife Peggy. This is special.' He said that moment was a giant lesson for him. He said one day Norman walked up to him and said 'pay attention. I was watching an interview with Ethan Hawke a few months ago and he was talking about being a kid shooting Dead Poet’s Society. "Trainwreck" director Judd Apatow wrote of Lloyd on Instagram, "Norman Lloyd loved to tell stories and make people laugh. Elsewhere" (1982-1988).ĭuring his distinguished film career, he was directed by both Jean Renoir, in "The Southerner" (1945), and Charlie Chaplin, in "Limelight" (1952), had prominent roles in such films as "Dead Poets Society" (1989) and Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence" (1993), and made his final appearance on the big screen in the Amy Schumer comedy "Trainwreck" (2015). Lloyd's biggest hit on TV was as the cancer-stricken Dr. Most famously, he directed the episode "The Man from the South" (1960), in which a young man played by Steve McQueen bets he can get his cigarette lighter to produce a flame 10 times in a row - or else he will lose a finger to fiendish gambler Peter Lorre. It was the beginning of a long association with Hitchcock, one that found Lloyd acting in "Spellbound" (1945) and acting on and directing numerous episodes of TV's "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in the '50s and '60s.
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