Biography: life and films
Harold Lloyd was an American actor and producer whose birth name was Harold Clayton Lloyd. He was born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA on 20th April 1893 and died in Beverly Hills, California, USA on 8th March 1971, aged 77.His best films as an actor include Fred C. Newmeyer's comedy Grandma's Boy (1922), Safety Last! (1923), The Freshman (1925), Ted Wilde's The Kid Brother (1927) and Speedy (1928), and whose best work as a film director include The Kid Brother (1927), The Cat's-Paw (1934) and World of Comedy (1962).
Harold Lloyd appeared in 176 films, directed 7 films (including 3 shorts) and scripted 6 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Hal Roach (81 films), Alfred J. Goulding (26), (14), Gilbert Pratt (11), Fred C. Newmeyer (8), J. Farrell MacDonald (4), Clyde Bruckman (3), Billy Gilbert (3), Vincent Bryan (2), Ted Wilde (2), Sam Taylor (2), J. Searle Dawley (2) and George Nichols (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (165 films), drama (9), comedy-romance (6), romance (4) and Documentary (3).
Our average rating for Harold Lloyd over all films is: 2.4
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
Samson (1914) [a]
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) [a]
Luke, the Gladiator (1916) [a]
The Big Idea (1917) [a]
A Sailor-Made Man (1921) [a]
Dr. Jack (1922) [a]
Grandma's Boy (1922) [a,w]
Safety Last! (1923) [a,w]
Why Worry? (1923) [a]
Girl Shy (1924) [a,w]
Hot Water (1924) [a]
The Freshman (1925) [a,w]
For Heaven's Sake (1926) [a]
The Kid Brother (1927) [a,d]
Speedy (1928) [a]
Welcome Danger (1929) [a,w]
Movie Crazy (1932) [a,d]
The Cat's-Paw (1934) [a,d]
Professor Beware (1938) [a]
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) [a]
World of Comedy (1962) [a,d]
Funny Side of Life (1963) [a]
Hugo (2011) [a]
French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
The very best American film comedies
The best French Films of the 1910s
