After Lewis Friedman left PBS, after producing The Scarecrow (1972) (TV), Lloyd took over Friedman's duties as the executive producer of the network.
After his birth, his entire family moved to Manhattan before Brooklyn, where Norman had been raised.
As a young man, he was apprenticing for his profession under Eva Le Gallienne, she made the suggestion that he take elocution lessons to take all the rough edges off his Brooklyn accent.
At age 12, he studied with the fourmost dance team in America.
Attended New York University.
Attended the same high school as basketball player Jules Bender.
Bears a slight resemblance to his late best friend Alfred Hitchcock.
Before he was a successful actor he used to be a dancer.
Before he was a successful actor, producer and director, he used to be a child performer of the silent era.
Best known by the public for his starring role as Chief of Emergency Services - Dr. Daniel Auschlander on "St. Elsewhere" (1982).
Between Betty White, Mickey Rooney and Ernest Borgnine, he's one of the oldest actors in Hollywood not to retire.
Both his mother and Norman himself would go to shows, to look at comics in order to steal the material.
Despite not attending Harvard University, he was hired from their dramatic society to perform the play "The Bride and the Unicorn.".
Did not appear in his first movie until he was 27.
Did the voice-over for a Ben Gay commercial seen on national TV. The spot was rather sardonic, unlike any Ben Gay spot before or since, and Lloyd did a marvelous job, his voice and reading appropriately dry as a martini.
Friends with Harry Morgan, Karl Malden, Bill Dana, Arlene Dahl, Jane Wyatt, Wallace Ford, Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock and his late wife Peggy Lee.
Got the job as producer of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955) with the encouragement of his best friend Alfred Hitchcock.
Graduated from Boys High School in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929, at age 14, with higher grades.
Growing up in the depression, his father Max, lost his store, and the job that affected Lloyd's family, economically.
Had 2 sisters, Lloyd is the only son.