Norman Lloyd dead at 106

So old

It seems like he was fairly healthy til the end. Whereas most people even 20 years younger than him are infirm and in rest homes by then.

Awesome genes; hope he donated his body to science.

His daughter is 81 and still alive.

RIP, Dr. Auschlander.

The 0ne-oh-0h’s are the new nineties

Was it murder?

His life was all in the snow globe of an autistic boy.

So young!

Aw, that's sad.

He definitely lived a great life!

It's a shame when young performers are cut down in their prime

He was born the same year WWI (or 'The Great War', as some of you eldergays probably knew it) started. Pretty mind-blowing.

He was being considered as Biden's successor. People don't want another baby boomer.

So young.

What a grand life. RIP.

He was homophobic and wouldn't work with African Americans

Link, please, R16.

R16. That must have made St. Elsewhere interesting

And he was just about to be Playgirl's next centerfold.

I suspect there’s a good chance that his principal NYT obituary writer is deceased.

Is Angela Lansbury our go to “So young” celebrity?

I'd say Betty White might be.

[quote] And he was just about to be Playgirl's next centerfold.

TransLloyd. Seeing him nude would be literal violence.

Ex-CUSE me, R22?

See R14.

Does anyone know the cause of death?

[quote] Does anyone know the cause of death?

Same as Prince Philip’s.

He was fighting an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, Rose.

R24 we were talking about stars that people actually KNOW????

Just in...Hollywood actor Cristopher Lloyd dead at 160 years young in Norman, Oklahoma. Here on the phone line is Marlo Thomas his costar on at "St. Jude Hospital"

R25 Probably COVID but they don't like to admit it.

[quote] His daughter is 81 and still alive.

Per his obit, his daughter died last year.

Did anyone ask Meghan if she is OK?

I loved ST. ELSEWHERE. It was one of my favourite shows. He remained close friends with several of the cast including Ed Begley Jr. and Howie Mandel.

Here he is at his 105th birthday celebration last year. He had slowed down a lot - physically and speechwise - since I last saw him interviewed. He still seemed to have all of his faculties though and a sense of humour. Pretty amazing.

Too bad his 106th, and last, birthday came during Covid.

At least he didn’t die during the Trump presidency. Woodrow Wilson was president when he was born.

R25, it might have been natural causes.

He was killed in a shoot out with police, after shooting up a preschool

Aww, this is a shame.

All In The Family and The Jeffersons were legendary.

He had been cast in a film that was in development at the time of his death!

[quote] I suspect there’s a good chance that his principal NYT obituary writer is deceased.

His NYT obit is still not up. Maybe they're scrambling to put it together on such short notice.

R38 is not only Rose but also Larry King.

He probably had the best kind of career, a character actor who knew everyone and also had opportunities to direct and produce, working in every medium. He had lots of showbiz perks without the burdens. He played tennis into his 90s and hecame a mentor to much younger actor, so he always had people around him.

[quote] hecame a mentor to much younger actor

A noble calling indeed.

I was actually just thinking of Norman Lloyd last week. He was just 22 when he appeared in Orson Welles' Mercury Theater inaugural production of "Cesar" in 1937.

He played tennis with Bill Tilden

[quote]Too bad his 106th, and last, birthday came during Covid.

On the other hand, he got to see both the COVID and the Spanish Flu.

If I were to live just a few more months than did Mr. Lloyd - & retained my marbles- I would be around to observe the 100th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Of course, it’s doubtful that that would be of much general interest in 2063.

[quote]If I were to live just a few more months than did Mr. Lloyd - & retained my marbles- I would be around to observe the 100th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Of course, it’s doubtful that that would be of much general interest in 2063.

It would be of great interest. A hundred years after the assassination could be our first chance to see Jackie's pink Chanel suit, still splattered with JFK's dried blood.

I salute Mr Lloyd and anyone who has the wherewithal or stamina to make it to the ripe old age 100 or more. At 59, I’m not sure I have it in me (or the funds) to go another twenty-five years at best.

Ironic because I’d like to live to 100+ just to see what the world is like then.

Otherwise, I agree with you 100%, I don’t think I have it in me. Which, coincidentally, is what a bottom once told me.

From Mercury Theater to Murder She Wrote - an amazing career!

R48, although I would of course have great interest, I highly doubt that the 100th anniversary of JFK’s assassination is going to capture much general interest.

NYT obit is up, and author Eric Nagourney appears to still be kicking

The 100th anniversary of McKinley’s death was overshadowed by Sept 11. He’d lingered for a few days, the shooting was on the 6th.

I sure hope this thread surpasses the number of posts received by Tawny Kitaen’s death.

Yes, R54, but for 9/11 we’d all have been focused on the McKinley assassination.

Outlived another one bitches.

[quote]He had been cast in a film that was in development at the time of his death!

In retrospect, it's probably a good thing that he's not able to appear in the sequel to "Dawson's 50-Load Weekend."

[quote]we were talking about stars that people actually KNOW????

So does that make me ineligible?

I've certainly heard of you, R59! But I didn't know you were still alive.

What about me, bitches? I'm pushing 100

Is St. Elsewhere streaming any where? I’d love to watch it again. I haven’t seen it since it aired in the early 80s.

R62 St. Elsewhere is streaming on Hulu. A great source to check what’s streaming where is reelgood.com.

The AV Club did a charming interview with him in 2015 when he was 100. An amazing career and life.

Thank you r63!

He and his wife were married for SEVENTY FIVE years. Amazing.

He was an interesting actor. I liked his distinctive voice. One of my favorite memories of him is an episode of "Night Gallery" the Rod Serling anthology series. The episode was "A Feast of Blood"; he played a repugnant older suitor who gifts a young woman who rejects him with an unusual fur brooch shaped like a small rodent. He makes a pass at her while driving her home and she gets out of the car and attempts to walk home. The brooch is pinned to her coat and it...well, watch the episode. I love the ending of the episode; the expression Lloyd gets on his face is deliciously macabre.

I was just thinking of him yesterday or the day before.. feel like I jinxed him. Silly, I know.

He directed many of the Hitchcock Presents TV episodes of the late ‘50s/early ‘60s.

He was sort of less pompous John Houseman.

The end of an era. May he RIP.

It’s quite mystifying that his obituary is neither in today’s print version of the NYT nor is not included in its online obituaries.

His voice was probably the last surviving example of "Mid-Atlantic Speech".

Bitch, what @R72?

At 106, he must have left behind a lot of stuff.

R73 You heard it right the first time! RIP subsmug mid Atlantic speech affectation.

RIP — Deadpool thread predicted his death only 4-5 months ago. DL still has its charm for predicting celeb deaths!

Handsome when in his forties.

[quote]RIP — Deadpool thread predicted his death only 4-5 months ago. DL still has its charm for predicting celeb deaths!

Very impressive to correctly predict the death of a 106-year-old man several months in advance.

I was surprised and disappointed so many news websites/programs didn’t even bother to cover his death. His career was a big deal. He’s the end of an era.

Lloyd’s “Night Gallery” episode, “A Feast of Blood”, creeped me out as a kid, too, R66! His intended paramour in the episode was a young and lovely Sondra Locke.

NYT May 11

R80, I love that episode

R45 Lloyd DID play tennis with Bill Tilden, while Tilden played with young teen boys. Tilden is an odd one. He was 6'1", and athletic, but not very attractive above the shoulders. And even at that, he hit the wall pretty early...probably in his mid-thirties. After that point, it was fucking OVAH!

R81 Look at that face! It's definitely the face of a character actor. I love it. I think Norman Lloyd got more attractive as he aged...the opposite of his kiddie diddler tennis partner Bill Tilden.

So how many years do I have left?

Lloyd was in the most critically acclaimed American film of 1986, made by one of the best known directors of the last 50 years, yet no one mentioned it. Strange.

R85, "Top Gun"?

Try again, R86/

He didn't make a feature film in 1986.

The old Hollywood actors of any real fame are going fast (we lost two biggies in 2020, DeHavilland and Douglas). We're down to Marsha Hunt, Angela Lansbury, Eva Marie Saint, Jane Powell, and a bunch of d-listers.

Only three silent film actors left, all of them child actors I never heard of: brothers Billy and Garry Watson, and Mildred Kornman.

Dr Auschlander taught me that having cancer meant you have to learn to live with it, rather than just spending your life waiting to die. From it.

I loved St Elsewhere, and I loved his character. And I always laughed when I would watch classic films and he turns up young.

Another “Night Gallery” mention.

Lloyd also directed a lot of TV shows over the years, many for Hitchcock. He also directed one of my favorite “Columbo” episodes, “Lady In Waiting” with Susan Clark.

Susan Dey -- we're waiting.

Amazing that many people live 100+ years now. If anyone lived to be 100, that was an amazing feat...still is. To exceed that seems extraordinary. RIP Mr. Lloyd. So....Marsha Hunt is 103. She moved up to the top of the "so young" list.

There was no mention of his death on the news...or GMA. I found out when TCM did a "TCM Remembers".

I LOVE Marsha Hunt.

[quote]we were talking about stars that people actually KNOW????

A true DLer knows everyone, you pleb.

I'm still here -- I was MGM's Tiny Tim!

^ Wow, Tiny Tim was family!!!!

"God bless us, everyone!" , R99

Is that hottie in the background of r44's picture Elliott Reed? Very nice.

[quote]Lloyd was in the most critically acclaimed American film of 1986

He wasn't in a movie in 1986. Do you mean 1989?

[quote]His voice was probably the last surviving example of "Mid-Atlantic Speech".

How very DARE you!

Where did Norman (and Jean Stapleton for that matter) pick up their pseudo-English accents?

Norman was born in Jersey City and raised in Brooklyn...people from there certainly don't sound like that.

[quote] Where did Norman (and Jean Stapleton for that matter) pick up their pseudo-English accents?

Those aren't "pseudo-English" accents, they're "mid-Atlantic" accents, and they naturally picked them up in the THEATAH.

I don't understand the question, R104.

One of the obits mentioned that he tool elocution lessons.

My dear, we ALL took elocution lessons.

To learn to speak with a mid-Atlantic accent, one could either take elocution lessons or listen repeatedly to Constance Bennett in a 1930s screwball comedy.

It’s gratifying to see he did get some tributes. I’m sure his ST. ELSEWHERE co-stars posted something as well.

William Daniels was from Brooklyn, also. His father was a bricklayer.

Damn covid got her. I'm sure she had at least another ten years on her. Damn. Damn. Damn. Where's my green salad bowl!