Norman Lloyd doc
Touched by his performance as a blind former college professor in Curtis Hanson‘s In Her Shoes, I interviewed the 90 year-old Norman Lloyd at his Brentwood home a couple of years ago. The producer-actor is still going strong today (healthy, plays tennis, gets around town in a Jaguar) and currently the subject of career retrospective doc, Who Is Norman Lloyd?, which opened yesterday at Manhattan’s Film Forum.
Norman Lloyd in his Brentwood home — Tuesday, 9.27.05, 5:45 pm.
I haven’t seen Matthew Sussman‘s doc yet, but presumably a Los Angeles screening or booking is in the cards.
Here’s Matt Zoller Seitz‘s N.Y. Times review. Here’s a a Leonard Lopate interview on NYPR, John Anderson‘s 11.20 Village Voice profile, and Stu van Airsdale‘s recent Reeler piece. Here’s my own interview piece from two years ago.
Lloyd will drop by the Film Forum on Monday, 11.26 at 8:15 pm for a q & a session with Bruce Goldstein and John Martello, exec director of The Players. Surprise guests may show.
Armond’s review was great:
http://www.nypress.com/20/47/film/armond3.cfm
And to T. Holly:
What book should I be reading?
waiting, waiting….
Hope you had a nice T-Giving!
The NY Press review was actually written by Eric Kohn. The byline is wrong.
True stories are the best. If you haven’t read it, The Kiss, by Kathryn Harrison, a very interesting memoir, a real page turner, might give Norman Lloyd a heart attack.
Memoirs are cool, and the best, like GB Shaw said:
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time”
The woman that has the guts to put her brain on the line is rare and so good. The best line that I’ve ever read about men was written by Jane Bowles from (I think) MY SISTERS HAND IN MINE:
He wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.
What a line!
But that’s how most boys who think of themselves as men look!
So true!
Hope your T-Holly’s T-Giving was a good one!
Was he in ST ELSEWHERE?? I seem to remember him as a hospital administrator
To me, he’s an iconic figure in cinema, for no other reason than his playing of the title role in Hitchcock’s “Saboteur”
Any film buff can recall that close-up of his tortured face as he dangles from the Statue Of Liberty…just before the remarkable(for its day)process shot of him taking his fatal plunge.
(This film’s over 60 years old, so I don’t think I need to include a “spoiler” alert, do I?)
Lloyd went on to become Hitchcock’s collaborator in a variety of projects, I think he functioned as a producer on the Hitchock TV series. I’d love to read anything about him.
I have your books Bu, offline.
Was lucky enough to sit next to Lloyd at a dinner earlier this decade, and the man sure knew how to tell a story. A very nice guy with a voice that you could listen to hours. I just couldn’t believe I was talking to a guy who had worked with Welles, Chaplin, Hitchcock, and of course, the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.