Notable Deaths in 2021

Norman Lloyd

Actor Norman Lloyd (Nov. 8, 1914-May 11, 2021) had a career that read like a history of Hollywood. After appearing on Broadway, Lloyd joined Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre acting company in the 1930s. His credits included Welles’ anti-fascist modern-dress telling of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” He also appeared in a 1939 NBC broadcast of a play, “The Streets of New York,” a reel of which is the earliest-surviving live TV broadcast from Rockefeller Center.

In his first Hollywood feature, Lloyd worked with Alfred Hitchcock, playing a Nazi spy in 1942’s “Saboteur,” famously dangling from the torch of the Statue of Liberty in the film’s thrilling conclusion. He also appeared in Hitchcock’s “Spellbound,” “The Unseen,” “A Walk in the Sun,” “Limelight,” “The Flame and the Arrow,” “Audrey Rose,” “FM,” “Dead Poets Society,” “The Age of Innocence,” and the TV series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Night Gallery,” “Kojak,” “The Paper Chase,” “Wise Guy,” “Home Fires,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Seven Days” and “The Practice.”

He was best-known for playing Dr. Daniel Auschlander on the 1980s medical drama, “St. Elsewhere.” Lloyd also produced and directed television, earning two Emmy nominations.

Lloyd made his final film appearance, at the age of 100, in the 2015 Amy Schumer comedy “Trainwreck.” “CBS This Morning: Saturday” co-host Anthony Mason spoke to Lloyd the following year: “They call you now the oldest living actor – what do you think of that title?”

“I don’t really relish it,” Lloyd replied, “because it infers that it’s age that is giving me some dimension, not the skill of acting. … I’d like to find good parts to play. But there are not many parts for 102-year-old men!”

“But you’re available!” Mason said.

“Beautifully put, thank you,” Lloyd said. “But acting, well, I’d never stop.”