Norman Lloyd(1914-2021)
- Producer
- Actor
- Director
Norman Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Sadie (Horowitz), a housewife and singer, and Max Perlmutter, a furniture store manager. His family was Jewish (from Hungary and Russia). He began his acting career in the
theater, first "treading the boards" at
Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory in
New York. Aspiring to work as a classical repertory player, he
gradually shed his Brooklyn accent and became a busy stage actor in the
1930s; he next joined the original company of the
Orson Welles-John Houseman
Mercury Theatre. Lloyd was brought to Hollywood to play a supporting
part (albeit the title role) in
Alfred Hitchcock's
Saboteur (1942). Hitchcock, who later
used the actor in Spellbound (1945)
and other films, made him an associate producer and a director on TV's
long-running
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
(then in its third year). In the course of his eight years on the
series, Lloyd became a co-producer (with
Joan Harrison) and then executive
producer. He has since directed for other series (including the
prestigious Omnibus (1952)) and for
the stage, produced TV's
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
and
Journey to the Unknown (1968),
and played Dr. Auschlander in TV's acclaimed
St. Elsewhere (1982).
theater, first "treading the boards" at
Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory in
New York. Aspiring to work as a classical repertory player, he
gradually shed his Brooklyn accent and became a busy stage actor in the
1930s; he next joined the original company of the
Orson Welles-John Houseman
Mercury Theatre. Lloyd was brought to Hollywood to play a supporting
part (albeit the title role) in
Alfred Hitchcock's
Saboteur (1942). Hitchcock, who later
used the actor in Spellbound (1945)
and other films, made him an associate producer and a director on TV's
long-running
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
(then in its third year). In the course of his eight years on the
series, Lloyd became a co-producer (with
Joan Harrison) and then executive
producer. He has since directed for other series (including the
prestigious Omnibus (1952)) and for
the stage, produced TV's
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
and
Journey to the Unknown (1968),
and played Dr. Auschlander in TV's acclaimed
St. Elsewhere (1982).