Norman Lloyd Net Worth

Norman Lloyd's Quotes

• When I see that I mourn for my lost hair. It was red.
• [on what film that can accomplish that theater can't] For one thing, it's the record of a performance. The theater is ephemeral, it's gossamer. And films can reach many, many more people than a theater performance can reach by distribution. In a major sense, films are a record that the theater cannot keep.
• [on Orson Welles] He was a genius. But (John) Houseman used to talk about Orson's self-destructiveness, and the not-finishing-things side. And then there was the ego. ... You know he and Welles were partners, and then that dissolved, and years later, Houseman was producing 'Julius Caesar' with Marlon Brando. And Orson ran into him at Chasen's and shouted, 'You son of a bitch, you stole my play!' His play, mind you, not William Shakespeare's. And then he threw a flaming can of Sterno at him. So you had that with Orson, too.
• [1979] Milly remains to this day, a rebel.
• [2003] Now, you begin to look at the cop from that vantage point, that the person who best understands the criminal mind-set is the policeman, and you've got an interesting dynamic.

Interesting Facts about Norman Lloyd

1. Was a close friend of Christopher Lee.
2. Did the voice-over for a Ben Gay commercial seen on national TV. The spot was rather sardonic, unlike any Ben Gay spot before or since, and Lloyd did a marvelous job, his voice and reading appropriately dry as a martini.
3. Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "I Was a Monster Movie Maker" (McFarland & Co., 2001).
4. His 75-year marriage to Peggy Lloyd was one of the longest marriages - if not the longest - in Hollywood history.
5. Best known by the public for his starring role as Chief of Emergency Services - Dr. Daniel Auschlander on St. Elsewhere (1982).
6. Made his Broadway debut in the play "Noah.".
7. Bore a slight resemblance to his late best friend Alfred Hitchcock.
8. In his eight-decade-plus career, he worked with some of the youngest players in Hollywood.
9. Graduated from Boys High School in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929, at age 14, with higher grades.
10. Did not appear in his first movie until he was 25.
11. Both his mother and Norman himself would go to shows, to look at comics in order to steal the material.
12. He was the son of Sadie (Horowitz), a housewife and singer, and Max Perlmutter, who worked as a manager in a furniture store. His parents were born in New York, and all of his grandparents were Jewish emigrants, from Hungary and Russia.
13. Before he was a successful actor, producer and director, he was a child performer of the silent era.
14. After his birth, his entire family moved to Manhattan before Brooklyn, where Norman had been raised.
15. Was raised nearby the same area as Jonathan Harris, who was four days older than Lloyd.
16. During the depression, his father Max lost his store and job, which affected Lloyd's family economically.
17. When he was 8, he wanted to be an actor.
18. Before he was a successful actor he used to be a dancer.
19. His hobbies included: golfing, dining, tennis, punching ball, playing chess, traveling, dancing and watching movies.
20. His character of Dr. Daniel Auschlander on St. Elsewhere (1982) was supposed to stay on for 4 episodes, but with the connection of the show, along with some response from the audience, Lloyd stayed on for additional six seasons, which in turn was the show's ending.