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Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films. [ 1 ] One of the most influential film comedians of the silent era, Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and talkies, from 1914 to 1947. His bespectacled "glasses character" was a ...
Lloyd was diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer by his brother-in-law, Dr. John Davis (Jack Davis, who starred in early "Our Gang" shorts) and died on March 8, 1971. His son, Harold Lloyd Jr. was an alcoholic homosexual and died soon afterward. Although Lloyd left an estate valued at $12 million (in 1971 dollars), he failed to make a provision ...
Aug 28, 2024 · Harold Lloyd, American film comedian who was the highest-paid star of the 1920s and one of cinema’s most popular personalities. His screen trademark was an ordinary man in round glasses, and he developed his humor from plot and physical danger. Lloyd’s films included Safety Last! and The Freshman.
The classic Harold Lloyd comedy “Safety Last” is turning 100 years old this year. But with its heavy dollops of action and a superstar’s real-life derring-do, it doesn’t seem a day over 10, even if it does date back to the silent era. The film screens this Sunday as the climax of the Academy Museum’s “Silent Sundays” series, with ...
Harold Lloyd. Actor: Safety Last!. Born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA to Elizabeth Fraser and J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd who fought constantly and soon divorced (at the time a rare event), Harold Clayton Lloyd was nominally educated in Denver and San Diego high schools and received his stage training at the School of Dramatic Art (San Diego).
In this landmark 1989 documentary film (reproduced here in full HD 1080) we explore the life, career & art of silent film's 'third genius' Harold Lloyd (the ...
Feb 18, 2021 · Harold Lloyd, 27 (sans eyeglasses), is in a makeshift studio screening room watching his latest one-reel film, Jazzed Honeymoon (in which he appears wearing the spectacles that would become his ...
Harold Lloyd died in 1971 at his home in Beverly Hills, CA at the age of seventy-seven. After his death, his magnificent estate was run as a museum but the property was eventually auctioned off and subdivided. The house and six acres still remain.
Sep 12, 2014 · In the ‘60s Lloyd released two compilations featuring scenes from his 1920s classics, which sparked some renewed interest in his film catalogue. In the 1990s his works were released on home video and a decade later on DVD, but, despite all of this, many today remain unfamiliar with Harold Lloyd’s spectacular world of comedy.
Jan 12, 2006 · About Harold Lloyd. January 12, 2006. Harold Lloyd in the 1936 film The Milky Way. “The King of Daredevil Comedy,” Harold Lloyd is best remembered today as the young man dangling desperately ...
