![]() He was the biggest cheerleader for the writers. Here’s a guy who had worked with Hitchcock and Welles and yet here he was with us doing this crazy show and breaking all the rules,” Fontana recalled. “He was completely open to any new adventure. Lloyd’s endorsement of their unconventional approach spoke volumes to the rest of the ensemble cast, which included William Daniels, Ed Flanders, Denzel Washington, Howie Mandel, Ed Begley Jr., Christina Pickles and David Morse. Elsewhere,” which followed the lives of staffers at a run-down hospital in Boston, was a major departure in dramatic storytelling for its day. Working with Lloyd was a gift for the show’s writers and producers. And whatever he did, he’d give it the old Norman twist that made what we’d written better for his performance.” When the director said ‘action’ he was ready to go. He remained with the series for its six-season run that ended in 1988. Originally, the character was to have died in episode six of Season 1, but Lloyd proved so good in the role and became such an integral part of the MTM Productions show that producers could not let him go. Donald Auschlander, who battled cancer from the 1982 pilot episode on. Elsewhere” in the role of the wise physician Dr. “He just had great stories about Chaplin and (Orson) Welles and Bertolt Brecht and Charles Laughton. “He was one of the great storytellers I’ve ever known,” Fontana told Variety. ![]() For years, whenever Fontana would visit Los Angeles, he made a point of having dinner with his former star. Lloyd, who died at his home in Los Angeles, was a raconteur who loved to regale listeners with amusing anecdotes about his decades in the industry. Elsewhere” showrunner Tom Fontana remembered his dear friend Norman Lloyd, the legendary actor who died Tuesday at the age of 106. He was a man who was full of stories and full of life.
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