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Died: May 11, 2021. NORMAN Lloyd, who has died in his sleep aged 106, had an eighty-year career on stage, screen and radio that saw him at the forefront of some of theatre and film’s most maverick moments. Blessed with a commanding presence that belied his slight stature, he worked with Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock, and came into contact with other groundbreaking artists, including Bertolt Brecht, and composers Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler. In the 1930s, Lloyd worked on the cutting-edge of what was then described as social theatre. With the Theatre of Action collective, he was directed by Elia Kazan. It was there that he met his wife, actress Peggy Craven. They were together for 75 years.
Norman Lloyd, actor who took the title role in Hitchcock’s Saboteur and played tennis with Chaplin – obituary
He worked with Renoir, Welles and Scorsese and, aged 100, played a lecherous care home resident in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck
Norman Lloyd aged 100 at a film festival in 2015
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Norman Lloyd, who has died aged 106, made his screen debut falling from the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur; more than 70 years later his role in 2015’s Trainwreck made him the oldest working actor in Hollywood.
While casual cinema- and theatregoers might have struggled to put a face to the name, his CV boasted an impressive 70-odd roles, several of which brought him into the orbit of the industry’s most highly regarded figures. A friendship with Jean Renoir began when Lloyd appeared in The Southerner (1945), perhaps the director’s best-received American film.