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Show he says now. It was very difficult for an guy like myself to have any career in pictures. Finally, he stopped waiting and took a producing job. It was an opportunity to keep working all the time, he points out. The longings were still there, I still wanted to get out and do a turn as an actor, but I tried to transfer my aspirations into other creative areas. Our culture has never looked kindly on people who sublimate their dreams to reality: Walter Mitty and Willy Loman earn at best our pity or derision. But Lloyd, in his largely anonymous career, produced Alfred Hitchcocks television series, directed projects that ranged from The Taming of the Shrew to Colombo and won the respect of his professional colleagues. And he provided for his family: His son. an aspiring novelist who supports himself as a truck driver, lives in Northern California: his daughter, recently divorced from the puppeteer Bil Baird, has returned to Los Angeles to live. Next June, Lloyd and his wife. Peg, will observe their 50th wedding anniversary. All the bittersweet experience of his life has made Lloyd a rich resource for his colleagues. Norman knows everything there is to know about the theater. says his friend, the actress Dorothy McGuire. He's a wonderful man, says Ed Begley Jr. , who plays the doltish Dr. Ehrlich on the series but socializes with Lloyd off camera, soaking up the older mans endless store of anecdotes about actors and acting. Most of all, though, Lloyd is a resource for Daniel Auschlander, M.D. He has this presence says Bruce Paltrow, the series producer. Hes somebody older and more philosophical that the others can go to. Diehard viewers of the series may remember that, when St. Elsewhere began. Dr. Auschlander was supposed to be dying of cancer. After seeing how Lloyd handled the role, Paltrow and his associates granted him a remission. For one thing, he brought to the part the quiet courage of a survivor. Auschlander acts as if he is not ill, says Lloyd. I and the writers agreed that we would not play him as a sick man. People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television. For another, he resisted the temptation to make the doctor an unblemished hero: Sometimes hes quite contrary, says Lloyd. He makes mistakes. He sulks. He is not above it all. Perhaps only a man of Norman Lloyd's experience could have created the charand ceracter of Daniel Auschlander tainly only Norman Lloyd could get so much out of playing Dr. Auschlander. Its a very good show. he says. It has a courage and uniqueness that makes one proud to be in it. Its all things I went into the business for. I'm having a ball. OJ off-cent- er PJUUDC MA6AZME FEBRUARY 2, 1M6 PACE 11 w n "Vv.m ik ii m II I WK |
