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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 ...
Apr 1, 2023 · Harold Lloyd – Safety Last! (1923) Debuting exactly 100 years ago, Safety Last! features one the most iconic stunts of all time, culminating in star Harold Lloyd hanging from the face of a...
Harold Lloyd (born April 20, 1893, Burchard, Nebraska, U.S.—died March 8, 1971, Hollywood, California) was an American film comedian who was the highest-paid star of the 1920s silent era of film and one of cinema’s most popular personalities.
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Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius of Comedy. Read Lynsey Ford’s article published today in The People’s Movies here. The article also promotes Slapstick Festival UK in March 2021, where Harold’s Movie Crazy will be airing ahead of the 50th anniversary of Harold’s death.
Safety Last! is a 1923 American silent romantic-comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent-film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic.
Lloyd’s new “glasses” character, Harold, struck a chord with the light-hearted youth of the early 1920s, and Bebe Daniels was the picture of flapper insouciance. Together, they were so popular that their fans knew them only as “The Boy” and “The Girl”.
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Dec 1, 2022 · This interview was excerpted from a Harold Lloyd Master Seminar with writer/director John Patton Ford (AFI Class of 2009) when he visited the AFI Conservatory in the fall of 2022.
