Harold Lloyd
Actor
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Kermode: I got punched for Keira acting jibe...released. Were you surprised by anything? I always assumed Gromit s facial expressions were taken from Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd as so much silent comedy was about the eyes expressing everything. Nick said the moment in the first... In this article: Mark Kermode, Nick Park, Aardman, Steven Spielberg, The Culture Show, Film4, Channel 4, and The Wicker Man |
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Kansas City Star | November 11, 2009
In director Roland Emmerich's world, the fleet can flee disaster
...outrunning stuff since the earliest Tarzan adventures, since the Keystone Kops first gave chase, since (sorta) silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd first stepped unwittingly out of the way of certain death. </p><p> As connected as the idea is to...
In this article: Roland Emmerich, Indiana Jones, Tarzan, Orson Welles, Bruce Willis, Sean Connery, Cary Grant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sylvester Stallone
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The Australian | November 09, 2009
Mansions become piggy banks
...year. One is his Beverly Hills mansion "Green Acres," a 44-room Italian Renaissance palazzo built in the 1920s by silent film star Harold Lloyd. More recently it was a favourite overnight rest stop for Burkle's buddy, Bill Clinton.
In this article: Ronald Burkle, Beverly Hills, LA Dodgers, Los Angeles, New York City, Climate change, and Melbourne Cup
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Wikipedia | October 27, 2009
Harold Lloyd
...by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts features the Harold Lloyd Sound Stage; Lloyd was a donor to the film school. The 2001 Futurama episode "That's Lobstertainment!" was a tribute...
In this article: Hal Roach, Charlie Chaplin, Mildred Davis, Preston Sturges, The Freshman, Stanley Baxter, RKO, Buster Keaton, and Howard Hughes
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L.A. Times - The Daily Mirror | October 09, 2009
Movie Star Mystery Photo
Larry Harnisch reflects on Los Angeles history Update: Jobyna Ralston with Harold Lloyd in "Girl Shy," in a photo marked April 20, 1924. Jan. 23, 1967: Jobyna Ralston dies at the age of 66. Just a reminder on how this works: I post...
In this article: Jobyna Ralston, Girl Shy, and Annie Hall
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Washington Times | October 04, 2009
VAULTS: Linder a funnyman with a dark side
...looks somewhat careworn circa 1921. The established and emerging American clowns, notably Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, must have seemed appreciably younger and fresher. They might have defied competition from any...
In this article: Max Linder, Seven Years Bad Luck, Charlie Chaplin, World War I, Walter Kerr, Hollywood, Suicide, DVD, Be My Wife, and Morphine
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New Jersey On-Line | October 01, 2009
'A Serious Man' movie review: Coen brothers' existential comedy is their best in years
...overplays, just by a shade, Larry's strangled panic. (With his big glasses and shock of hair, he looks a bit like a frantic Harold Lloyd.) Both actors are probably giving the Coens what they want - the brothers have always liked performances...
In this article: A Serious Man, Coen brothers, Richard Kind, Adam Arkin, Blintz, and Physics
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L.A. Times - Asia | September 17, 2009
LACMA to spotlight Hong Sang-soo films
The Korean filmmaker's 'Night and Day' makes its L.A. premiere with the director in attendance. Harold Lloyd aspires to campus prominence in the silent film "The Freshman." (May 17, 2002) South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo's "Night and...
In this article: Oscar, Karl Malden, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hong Sang-soo, Marlon Brando, The Freshman, and UCLA
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Centre Daily Times | August 27, 2009
It's fun to obsess about a compulsive thief
Compulsive behavior can make for great comedy, and Dicks makes the most of it. I don't know if the author has watched any Harold Lloyd movies, but he certainly brings the dangling-man-in-peril feel to some of Martin's second-story...
In this article: Oliver Sacks, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block, Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and Mark Haddon
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Wikipedia | August 24, 2009
Harold Lloyd Estate
...located in the Benedict Canyon section of Beverly Hills, California. Built in the 1920s by silent film star Harold Lloyd, it remained Lloyd's home until his death in 1971. The estate originally consisted of a 44-room mansion, golf course,...
In this article: Los Angeles Times, Ted Field, Mary Pickford, Lloyds, and Douglas Fairbanks
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www.washingtonpost.com | November 16, 2005
What Makes Comedy Tick?
On New DVDs, Harold Lloyd's Silent Films Stand The Test of Time The films of the great silent-film star Harold Lloyd inspire two kinds of laughter. Mostly there is a mild, knowing laughter, a laughter that acknowledges, across the space...
In this article: Feet First, Charlie Chaplin, Ask Father, Safety Last, Buster Keaton, and Huck Finn
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Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies.
Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies," between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America.
His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats, for which he is best remembered today. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in Safety Last! is one of the most enduring images in all of cinema. Lloyd did many of these dangerous stunts himself, despite having injured himself in 1919 during the filming of Haunted Spooks when an accident with a prop bomb resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on film with the use of a special prosthetic glove, though the glove often did not go by unnoticed).
Although Lloyd's individual films were not as commercially successful as Charlie Chaplin's on average, he was far more prolific (releasing twelve feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just three), and they made more money overall ($15.7 million to Chaplin's $10.5 million).
- Birth Date:
- April 20, 1893
- Birthplace:
- Burchard, Nebraska
- Death Date:
- March 08, 1971
- Place of Death:
- Beverly Hills
- Spouse:
- Mildred Davis
- Known for:
- Safety Last!
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