An acting career from 1939 to... today?!

[bayonetbrant]

http://variety.com/2014/film/features/norman-lloyd-at-100-hollywoods-living-memory-1201345747/#

November 7, 2014 | 06:00AM PT
After nine decades in the business, the former collaborator of Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles is still looking for his next great role.


Scott Foundas
Chief Film Critic@foundasonfilm

The earliest surviving footage of broadcast television in America is a fragment of "The Streets of New York," an adaptation of playwright Dion Boucicault's 19th-century drama, aired by the experimental New York NBC affiliate W2XBS on August 31, 1939. All that now remains of the hour-long program is a silent, 11-minute kinescope, filmed off a TV screen and archived at the Paley Center For Media. And there, in those primitive flickering images, you can catch a glimpse of one of the show's actors: the 24-year-old Norman Lloyd.

Next July, you can see the 99-year-old Lloyd in the Judd Apatow comedy "Trainwreck," which shot on location in New York this summer and in which Lloyd plays, by his own admission, "a lecherous old man." In between those unlikely bookends is a career that has quite literally spanned the 20th century and edged into the 21st, during which Lloyd has shared the stage, screen and many a memorable evening with the artistic giants of his time: Ingrid Bergman, Bertolt Brecht, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, Orson Welles...and yes, Judd Apatow.

[JasonPratt]

I was sure that was going to be "Christopher Lee" -- except Lee was probably training to be James Bond for real back then. ;)

[MetalDog]

I'll second Lee.  I thought that's what this was all about.

[bayonetbrant]

I knew y'all were going to think Lee, which is why I was intentionally vague.  But this guy's story is a riot and the article is very interesting.