More than a living museum, Lloyd remained a committed working actor. “That’s the way Hitch saw things,” he said. Hitchcock liked to make macabre jokes about his great-granddaughter being eaten by a hungry dog. “He sent her away with a bellow that shook the theatre.” “One day a woman in the cast crept forward and begged for one strawberry from his tart,” he told the Los Angeles Times. Welles, he said, liked to sate his ample appetite in front of starving actors during the Depression. In more recent years, Lloyd was an in-demand public speaker who reminisced about his links to creative giants of the early and mid-20th century.
But the audience response proved so enthusiastic, he added, that “the character went for six years with the longest remission on record”. “The original character of Dr Auschlander was only supposed to go for four episodes because he had cancer of the liver,” Lloyd told a Los Angeles theatre publication. Lloyd developed a strong following as a crusty but likeable hospital administrator Dr Daniel Auschlander on the NBC medical drama St Elsewhere, which aired from 1982 to 1988. Trevor Peacock: Versatile actor behind Jim Trott on The Vicar of Dibley.Terry Lovelock: Adman whose drinks campaigns brought laughter to millions.After his feature-film debut with Saboteur in 1942, he played a psychologically disturbed patient in Hitchcock’s Spellbound, a vindictive farmhand in Jean Renoir’s The Southerner and a cynical soldier in Lewis Milestone’s antiwar film A Walk in the Sun (all 1945). On-screen, Lloyd made a speciality of playing unsavoury roles. He became one of Hollywood’s oldest active performers, appearing as a lecherous senior citizen in Judd Apatow’s romantic comedy Trainwreck (2015). He also befriended Charlie Chaplin on a Hollywood tennis court and was rewarded with a supporting role in the director’s last American-made film, Limelight (1952). In a prolific and varied career, Lloyd worked under director Orson Welles in his celebrated Mercury Theatre shows of the late 1930s. Norman Lloyd, a venerable character actor for nine decades who may be best remembered for playing the villain who dangles from the Statue of Liberty at the climax of Alfred Hitchcock’s Second World War thriller Saboteur, has died aged 106.
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