Biography
Harold Lloyd (April 18, 1893 –March 8, 1971) was an American actor. He has been called the cinema’s “first man in space.” His comedy wasn’t imported from Vaudeville or the British Music Hall like his contemporaries, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Harold learned to use the camera the way other comics used a bowler hat or a funny walk. In 1917 he shed the comedic clown personas prevalent in comedy for hundreds of years and pioneered romantic comedy by the ordinary guy up on the screen –- a guy with faults, and fears, “the boy next door.” With his young man in horned-rimmed glasses, he created classic films.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Honorary Award · 1952
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography49 titles
Safety Last!
The Real Charlie Chaplin
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Speedy
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
What's My Line?
The Freshman
Girl Shy
The Kid Brother
For Heaven's Sake
Never Weaken
An Eastern Westerner
Bumping Into Broadway
Bashful
The Ed Sullivan Show
Hot Water
Dr. Jack
Feet First
High and Dizzy
Number, Please?
Why Worry?
Grandma's Boy
Get Out and Get Under
Ask Father
Just Neighbors
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Cat's-Paw
Movie Crazy
A Sailor-Made Man
Haunted Spooks
Captain Kidd's Kids
The Milky Way
Spring Fever
Next Aisle Over
Take a Chance
His Royal Slyness
Billy Blazes, Esq.
Young Mr. Jazz
Over the Fence
By the Sad Sea Waves
A Sammy in Siberia
A Gasoline Wedding
The Big Idea
The Marathon
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Welcome Danger
Look Pleasant, Please
That's Him
Lonesome Luke, Messenger