Norman Lloyd, a well known American actor, Director and producer has dies at the age of 106, Deadline Hollywood and Variety reported on tuesday.
Talking about his 80 year long career of Lloyd, he has worked with many legends including Charlie Chapling and Orson Welles.
While his last movie appearance was in the year 2015, ?raunchy comedy “Trainwreck,” starring Amy Schumer and directed by Judd Apatow.
?Television producer Tom Fontana, who had worked with him on ?St. Elsewhere,? described Lloyd as a combination of Peter Pan and Father Time.
Lloyd first appeared in the earliest surviving footage of American television – a segment of “The Streets of New York” from the year 1939.
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Norman Lloyd was born on Nov. 8, 1914, in Jersey City, New Jersey, and grew up in the New York borough of Brooklyn. While his mother took him to Broadway plays and instilled a love of acting that he began pursuing as a boy in local shows. He was still a teenager when he dropped out of New York University to pursue entertainment full time.
He made his Broadway debut in 1935 and the next year appeared in a staging of “The Crime,” which was directed by Elia Kazan and also included Peggy Craven, who he would marry.
Lloyd first got to know Chaplin on the tennis court in the 1940s and played a key role in “Limelight,” Chaplin`s 1952 film about a washed-up comedian and a suicidal dancer, which also featured Buster Keaton.