The actor, also an esteemed producer and director, worked with Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin and Jean Renoir and had a long collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock during an amazing career in show business
Dahl short story in which a young gambler makes a bet that his cigarette lighter can work 10 straight times. If it does, he wins a car from PeterYet throughout these and other brushes with greatness, Lloyd remained fairly anonymous, more happenstance than household name; a 2007 documentary on his life was aptly titledHe was born Nov. 8, 1914, in Jersey City, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn.
Lloyd’s first big break came in 1932 when, while attending New York University, he was picked to be an apprentice at the Civic Repertory, one of the grand figures of the American stage. In an effort to get the gig, he knocked unannounced on the Broadway theater stage door of British actor Nigel Bruce and elicited his advice.
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