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Harold Lloyd

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Harold Lloyd
Lloyd in 1924
Born
Harold Clayton Lloyd

(1893-04-20)April 20, 1893
Burchard, Nebraska, U.S.
DiedMarch 8, 1971(1971-03-08) (aged 77)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park
Occupations
  • Actor
  • comedian
  • producer
  • stunt performer
Years active1913–1963
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
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(m. 1923; died 1969)​
Children3, including Gloria Lloyd, Peggy Lloyd and Harold Lloyd Jr.
Relatives

Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer. He was in many silent comedy movies.[1] Lloyd made over 200 comedy movies from 1914 to 1947. These movies were both without and with sound. He usually played as a zeitgeist 1920s-era character.[2][3]

His movies usually had "thrill" sections where Lloyd would be in fast chases and performed his own stunts. Lloyd did these dangerous stunts himself even though a movie accident had caused the loss of his right thumb and index finger. After that accident, he used a prosthetic glove. This glove was not noticeable in his movies.[4]

Although Lloyd's movies were not as commercially successful as Chaplin's, Lloyd made a lot more money than Chaplin during their movie years. ($15.7 million to Chaplin's $10.5 million).

In 1971, Lloyd died of prostate cancer.

Death

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In March 8, 1971, Lloyd died of prostate cancer. He died in his Greenacres home in Beverly Hills, California.[5][6][7] His co-star Bebe Daniels died eight days after him.[8] His son Harold Lloyd Jr. died three months after him.[9][10]

References

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  1. ↑ Obituary Variety, March 10, 1971, page 55.
  2. ↑ Austerlitz, Saul (2010). Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy. Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-1569767634.
  3. ↑ D'Agostino Lloyd, Annette. "Why Harold Lloyd Is Important". haroldlloyd.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ An American Comedy; Lloyd and Stout; 1928; page 129
  5. ↑ "Died". Time. March 22, 1971. Archived from the original on December 21, 2008. Retrieved June 8, 2008.
  6. ↑ Dick Main (March 9, 1971). "Harold Lloyd, Bespectacled Film Comic, Dies of Cancer at 77". Los Angeles Times. pp. 1, 12. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  7. ↑ Illson, Murray (March 9, 1971). "Horn-Rims His Trademark; Harold Lloyd, Screen Comedian, Dies at 77". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2008.
  8. ↑ "Bebe Daniels, 70, Star in Silents, Early Talkies, Dies in London". Los Angeles Times. March 16, 1971. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ D'Agostino 1994. pp. 54-55.
  10. ↑ "Movie Comic Harold Lloyd's Son Dies at 40". Los Angeles Times. June 10, 1971. p. II-3.


Further reading

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  • Agee, James (2000) [1958]. "Comedy's Greatest Era" from Life magazine (9/5/1949), reprinted in Agee on Film. McDowell, Obolensky, Modern Library.
  • Bengtson, John (2011). Silent Visions: Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd. Santa Monica Press. ISBN 9781595808882.
  • Brownlow, Kevin (1976) [1968]. "Harold Lloyd" from The Parade's Gone By. Alfred A. Knopf, University of California Press.
  • Byron, Stuart; Weis, Elizabeth (1977). The National Society of Film Critics on Movie Comedy. Grossman/Viking.
  • Cahn, William (1964). Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy. Duell, Sloane & Pearce.
  • D'Agostino, Annette M. (1994). Harold Lloyd: A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-28986-7.
  • Dale, Alan (2002). Comedy is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick In American Movies. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Dardis, Tom (1983). Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock. Viking. ISBN 0-14-007555-0.
  • Durgnat, Raymond (1970). "Self-Help with a Smile" from The Crazy Mirror: Hollywood Comedy and the American Image. Dell.
  • Everson, William K. (1978). American Silent Film. Oxford University Press.
  • Gilliatt, Penelope (1973). "Physicists" from Unholy Fools: Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace. Viking.
  • Hayes, Suzanne Lloyd (1992). 3-D Hollywood with Photography by Harold Lloyd. Simon & Schuster.
  • Kerr, Walter (1990) [1975]. The Silent Clowns. Alfred A. Knopf, Da Capo Press.
  • Lacourbe, Roland (1970). Harold Lloyd. Paris: Editions Seghers.
  • Lahue, Kalton C. (1966). World of Laughter: The Motion Picture Comedy Short, 1910–1930. University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Lloyd, Annette D'Agostino (2003). The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1514-2.
  • Lloyd, Annette D'Agostino (2009). Harold Lloyd: Magic in a Pair of Horn-Rimmed Glasses. BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-332-6.
  • Lloyd, Harold; Stout, W. W. (1971) [1928]. An American Comedy. Dover.
  • Lloyd, Suzanne (2004). Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3-D. Black Dog & Leventhal. ISBN 978-1-57912-394-9.
  • Maltin, Leonard (1978). The Great Movie Comedians. Crown Publishers.
  • Mast, Gerald (1979) [1973]. The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies. University of Chicago Press.
  • McCaffrey, Donald W. (1968). 4 Great Comedians: Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton, Langdon. A.S. Barnes.
  • McCaffrey, Donald W. (1976). Three Classic Silent Screen Comedies Starring Harold Lloyd. Associated University Presses. ISBN 0-8386-1455-8.
  • Mitchell, Glenn (2003). A–Z of Silent Film Comedy. B.T. Batsford Ltd.
  • Reilly, Adam (1977). Harold Lloyd: The King of Daredevil Comedy. Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-601940-X.
  • Robinson, David (1969). The Great Funnies: A History of Film Comedy. E.P. Dutton.
  • Schickel, Richard (1974). Harold Lloyd: The Shape of Laughter. New York Graphic Society. ISBN 0-8212-0595-1.
  • Vance, Jeffrey; Lloyd, Suzanne (2002). Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian. Harry N Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-1674-6.

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