#the southerner

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Jean Renoir - The Southerner (1945)

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The Southerner(1945)

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THE SOUTHERNER (1945, dir. Jean Renoir)

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Norman Lloyd, character actor who dangled from Lady Liberty in ‘Saboteur,’ dies at 106

He gained a wide following as a crusty hospital administrator on the 1980s medical drama “St. Elsewhere.”

May 11, 2021

By Adam Bernstein

(The Washington Post) -- Norman Lloyd, a venerable character actor for nine decades who may be best remembered for playing the villain who dangles from the Statue of Liberty at the climax of Alfred Hitchcock’s World War II propaganda thriller “Saboteur,” died May 11 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 106.

His son, Michael Lloyd, confirmed the death but did not provide a cause.

In a prolific and varied career, Mr. Lloyd worked under director Orson Welles in his celebrated Mercury Theatre stagings of the late 1930s. He also befriended Charlie Chaplin on a Hollywood tennis court and was rewarded with a supporting role in the director’s last American-made film, “Limelight” (1952). He became one of Hollywood’s oldest active performers, appearing as a lecherous senior citizen in Judd Apatow’s romantic comedy “Trainwreck” (2015).

Onscreen, Mr. Lloyd made a specialty of playing unsavory roles. After his feature-film debut with “Saboteur” in 1942, he played a psychologically disturbed patient in Hitchcock’s “Spellbound,” a vindictive farmhand in Jean Renoir’s “The Southerner” and a cynical soldier in Lewis Milestone’s antiwar film “A Walk in the Sun” (all 1945).

As the decades passed, Mr. Lloyd’s Old Broadway theatrical mannerisms, professorial speaking style (he called movies “the pictures”) and prematurely balding pate led to officious parts in film and on TV.

He was the haughty headmaster who antagonizes an idealistic English teacher (Robin Williams) in the movie drama “Dead Poets Society” (1989) and the aged lawyer Mr. Letterblair in “The Age of Innocence” (1993), director Martin Scorsese’s film version of the Edith Wharton novel.

Mr. Lloyd developed a strong following as a crusty but likable hospital administrator, Dr. Daniel Auschlander, on the NBC medical drama “St. Elsewhere,” which aired from 1982 to 1988.

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The Southerner

author: Umakemebegin

length: chaptered (wip)

word count: 1815

rating: PG-17

author’s summary:

When the world has been divided into four Districts of North, East, West, and South, Park Jimin gets a chance to escape a horrendous Bloodbath in the Southern District. He is in search of an antique curse to help him see a glimpse of his future and save his life before the Vampire king of the South catches him. But the things he seems to find are as far from magical as possible; they are more like a new family to him, and maybe the love he didn't know he had needed.

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Charles Kemper (photos from 1937-1948) came to Hollywood from Oklahoma  with the advent of Talkies having theater and vaudeville experience to take advantage of the new opportunities. He was first featured in comedy shorts, but not too many, although he was often the main character. At times, he worked with Shemp Howard or Danny Kaye. In 1945, he appeared in his first full length drama, The Southerner, then Scarlet Street. Both were good roles for him and his career began to take off.  I found no mention of a wife or children.