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Norman Lloyd

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

Life at a glance

Died
2021 · May 11
Known as
actor, film producer, voice actor, stage actor, and television actor. Citizenship: United States

Their story

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

Norman Lloyd appears on our May 11 calendar for 2021 as a death entry.

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