Lloyd Bochner

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Biography

Lloyd Bochner had that wonderfully sonorous type of voice that was always tailor-made for radio or for the stage. Unsurprisingly then, by the time he was eleven, Lloyd was already employed as part-time voiceover artist and reader of drama serials by radio stations in Vancouver. Lloyd Wolfe Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Frieda , and Johanna Courtleigh.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • Canada
  • Nationality
  • Canadian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 29 July 1924
  • Place of birth
  • Toronto
  • Death date
  • 2005-10-29
  • Death age
  • 81
  • Place of death
  • Santa Monica· California
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes
  • Children
  • Hart Bochner
  • Knows language
  • English language

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Father of Hart Bochner , Paul Bochner and Johanna Courtleigh.

Originally hired to play C.C. Capwell on the daytime soap opera "Santa Barbara" but was forced to leave the series before it debuted on television as he suffered a heart attack.

Had starred in "The Twilight Zone" {To Serve Man (#3.24)} , one of the most popular episodes of "The Twilight Zone" ever produced.

He and his son Hart Bochner both provided voices for Batman. He did the voice of Mayor Hamilton Hill on "Batman: The Animated Series" . In the feature film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm , Hart did the voice of D.A. Arthur Reeves.

Was a licensed amateur (ham) radio operator with the call sign N6CKF.

He began his career on the radio in Canada when he was 11 years old. He moved on to stage and movie work, and eventually moved to Los Angeles in 1960 to co-star on the television series "Hong Kong" .

Had played Dr. Wendell Roberts in The Detective , based on a novel by author Roderick Thorp. His son, actor Hart Bochner , played Harry Ellis in Die Hard , which was based on Thorps novel "Nothing Lasts Forever", the sequel to "The Detective".

Following his death, he was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

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