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Norman Lloyd was not too impressed with director Peter Weir when Weir asked him to audition for the role of the headmaster in Dead Poets Society in 1988. After all, he had been working in showbusiness for around 65 years by then and was one of the stars of hit series St Elsewhere. But Weir was Australian and had never seen the US hospital drama. Lloyd, who was in his seventies, did audition and he got the part of the stern principal at the stuffy private school, alongside Robin Williams’s liberal English teacher, but only after Lloyd had made sure that the try-out was not going to clash with his twice-daily tennis schedule. ....