Anecdotes

John J. Lloyd (1922-2014, age 92) was born in Dearborn, Michigan. In the mid 1920s his parents made a caravan across country with uncles and aunts to a better life out west. The Lloyd family settled in Ramona, California where John assisted his parents in running the local mercantile store and in the day-to-day operation of a turkey ranch. The Lloyd family moved to Culver City where John's father and uncle obtained jobs in the movie industry at the MGM Film Studios. As a teen John J. learned about the mechanics of flight while washing airplanes for a nickel a plane at the old Culver City airfield. During World War II John J. served in the Navy and put this background to good use. Stationed at Norman, Oklahoma, John J. instructed Navy airmen on the mechanics of aircraft and theory of flight. After the war, John attended and graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute; the art school located in the urban Westlake neighborhood, adjacent to MacArther Park, in the mid-town neighborhood of Los Angeles. John met his wife of 54 years, June, when he came upon her selling gladiolus and honey by the side of the road in Topanga Canyon. John and June married and settled, raising their family in Woodland Hills, California. John's strong work ethic, reputation, and dedication to his family and film craft kept him steadily employed in the film and television entertainment industry for close to fifty years.

Film director John Landis remarked: "John Lloyd was a terrific man with a great sense of humor. I was lucky to work with him on "Animal House," "The Blues Brothers" and "Into the Night." John was an old pro and a pleasure to collaborate with.".

John Found working with Hitchcock especially rewarding and he credited this association as the spring-board which lead to his production design/art direction of movies including "The Day Of The Locust," "Raggedy Man," "Animal House," "Colossus: The Forbin Project" and notable others.

In the 1950s John J. Lloyd helped pioneer film quality production design/art direction in the new world of television and made for television long form filmed movies. Employed at Lew Wasserman's Revue Studios (later renamed Universal-MCA Studios). John J., a staff art director at the Revue/Universal-MCA film studio's art department, was hired by Supervising Art Director Alexander Golitzen (1908-2005, age 97). John contributed his keen eye for detail on television series including "Studio 57," "Wagon Train," "Suspicion," "The Millionaire," "Checkmate" (receiving an EMMY Award for Art Direction/Scenic Design), "Leave It To Beaver," "Destry," "Bob Hope Presents," "The Jack Benny Program," "The Munsters," "Columbo" and hundreds of other television shows including 137 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". Off-camera, John's architectural talents were tapped by Hollywood notables who employed him him in the design of their dream homes, many of which still stand in Brentwood and Bel Air.