Watch Keith Olbermann's interview with Norman Lloyd on MSNBC "Countdown"

Listen to Norman Lloyd on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show:


Read Stephen Whitty's feature on Norman Lloyd in the Star-Ledger

Read John Anderson's feature in The Village Voice

Read Norman Lloyd's Interview with S.T. VanAirsdale of The Reeler

“An inspiring film... A valentine to a show business legend. But luckily this is a rare case in which the subject is, by consensus, such an accomplished man and decent fellow that the director can’t be accused of overdoing it… It’s hard to know where to begin admiring the subject of Who Is Norman Lloyd?”
– Matt Zoller Seitz, The New York Times. Click to read review

“A fount of stage and movie lore, full of juice at the age of ninety-three.”
– Anthony Lane, The New Yorker. Click here for review

“A brief, loving tribute… I wish there were more documentaries like this!” – David Edelstein, New York magazine

“A kind, engaging portrait… Who is Norman Lloyd? sets the record straight… It speaks to the legacy of talent as a categorically separate phenomenon from celebrity stature. There are names that fill in the cracks of Hollywood myth, and Norman Lloyd's story seals several gaps.”
– Armond White, New York Press. Click to read review

“Breezy and engaging! One gets the impression that Norman Lloyd has an inexhaustible supply of nuanced and amusing anecdotes up his sleeve.”
– Bruce Bennett, The New York Sun. Click to read feature

Yes, just who is Norman Lloyd? 
You may know him as Dr. Auschlander on TV’s St. Elsewhere, but if ever someone should be a household name but isn’t, he’s the guy. Born in Jersey City 93 years ago and raised in Brooklyn (he took elocution lessons to remove the accent), Lloyd is undoubtedly the only person, living or dead, who can claim to have worked with Hitchcock (both as an actor in Saboteur and Spellbound and later as director and producer of his TV series), Renoir (The Southerner), Chaplin (Limelight) and Welles (Lloyd is one of three surviving members of Welles’s Mercury Players), as well as Elia Kazan, Joseph Losey, Jules Dassin, Lewis Milestone, Bertolt Brecht, Martin Scorsese, even Cameron Diaz (Lloyd appeared with her recently in In Her Shoes). As Lloyd’s close friend, actor Karl Malden, says in the film, “Who is Norman Lloyd? Norman is the history of show business in the twentieth century.”

In Who Is Norman Lloyd?, directed by Matthew Sussman and produced by Joseph Scarpinito and actor Michael Badalucco (Norman and he met when Lloyd guest-starred on Badalucco’s television series The Practice), we see the amazingly vigorous nonagenarian moving from his twice-a-week tennis match at home in L.A. to spinning yarns at his installation as a life member of Manhattan’s Players Club. But then there’s: acting in the theater during the Depression with Kazan; arguing with Welles about the role of Cinna the poet in the 1036 Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar (Lloyd won the argument – his performance was critically acclaimed); a tennis friendship with Chaplin (which led to Lloyd’s casting as the stage director in Limelight); Brecht and the world premiere of Galileo; and a long association with Hitchcock beginning with Lloyd’s film debut as the Saboteur: Hitchcock later rescued Lloyd from the blacklist by making him associate producer (later executive producer) of his weekly TV series (Lloyd also directed nineteen episodes and appeared in five of them). And in addition to his four seasons on St. Elsewhere, he also acted on such series as The Paper Chase; Murder, She Wrote; Wings; Wiseguy; and many more. And the career continues… Teases Malden, “The bastard’s as old as I am and still at it!”

WHO IS NORMAN LLOYD? Website

Final Day! Showtimes: 1:00, 4:35, 8:15*
*Director Matthew Sussman and co-producer Michael Badalucco will introduce the 8:15 show of WHO IS NORMAN LLOYD? on Thursday, November 29.

(1942) Rehearsal for North by Northwest, as Robert Cummings, framed with a phony sabotage rap, uncovers the real culprits, with Norman Lloyd, screendebuting in the title role, as the principal in spectacular Statue of Liberty climax. Among touches by co-scripter Dorothy Parker: the caravan of circus freaks. Echt Hitchcock touch: Lloyd’s smirking glance out of cab window establishing responsibility for the sinking of the Normandie — a scene added right after news of the disaster hit. “The Hitchcock film par excellence.” – David Shipman.
A Universal Pictures release.

“Three things give Saboteur grace and depth. One, it was Hitchcock’s first association with the great production designer Robert Boyle; two, some of the wealth-skewering, Nazi-baiting dialogue is by Dorothy Parker; and three, there is Norman Lloyd, subtle and ferrety to the end.”
– Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

FRI/SAT/SUN 6:10, 9:45 • MON 2:30, 6:10 • TUE/WED/THU 2:30, 6:10, 9:45

SOLD OUT
Now that you know who he is, here’s your chance to see this legend of theater, movies and television in action — in person. Mr. Lloyd (“raconteur extraordinaire” – Leonard Maltin) will appear in person to recount an extraordinary career that began over 70 years ago. Hosted by Film Forum’s Bruce Goldstein and John Martello, Executive Director of The Players, with surprise guests!
8:15 (SOLD OUT)