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Norman Lloyd

Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer and director (born 1914)

5th anniversary in 2026

In context

When
Tuesday, May 11 20215 years ago
Category
DeathA notable person who died on this day.
Era
21st century · 2020s
Anniversary
5th in 2026
Recorded from
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At a glance

Born 1914-11-08; died 2021-05-11.

Known as: actor, film producer, voice actor, stage actor, and television actor. Citizenship: United States.

Listed as: human.

Who they were

Personal life and death Lloyd in 2007 On June 29, 1936, Lloyd married stage actress Peggy Craven . Together, they had two children: Michael, and actress Josie , who died the year before Lloyd. [ 1 ] Lloyd and Craven remained married for 75 years until her death in 2011. [ 2 ] Lloyd began practicing his lifelong hobby of tennis at the age of 8. "With the application and time I have devoted to it, I should have been a reigning World Champion", he said in a 2000 interview. [ 3 ]

Norman Nathan Lloyd was an American actor, producer, director, and centenarian with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century. He worked in every major facet of the industry, including theatre, radio, television, and film, with a career that started in 1923. Lloyd's final film, Trainwreck, was released in 2015 after he turned 100. Lloyd remained the oldest-living male actor from Classic Hollywood until his death in 2021.

Early life

Educated at: New York University and Boys High School.

Early life and theatre Lloyd with the Federal Theatre Project in 1937 The Man Who Knows All (Robert Noack) explains the kilowatt-hour to the Consumer (Lloyd) in Power , a Living Newspaper play for the Federal Theater Project (1937) Lloyd, Katherine Emery and Dean Jagger in the Broadway production Everywhere I Roam (1938) Lloyd was born Norman Nathan Perlmutter [ 1 ] on November 8, 1914, in Jersey City, New Jersey . [ 2 ] His family was Jewish [ 3 ] and lived in New York City . His father,

Path and career

Worked with / for: Federal Theatre Project.

Why this date

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