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Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.
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culture · American actor and comedian (1893–1971) · film actor · actor · film director · film producer · screenwriter · photographer · stunt performer · comedian · executive producer · writer · also Harold Lloyd, Harold Clayton Lloyd, Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr., Lloyd
Born 20 April 1893 · Died 8 March 1971 · Q104340
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2023· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
An alley where Lloyd shot Safety Last
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2005· 1 entry
Along with theatrical screenings in the United States, Canada and Europe
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2004· 1 entry
His granddaughter Suzanne produced Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D
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2002· 1 entry
The Harold Lloyd Trust re-launched him with the publication of the book Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian by Jeffrey Vance and Suzanne Lloyd, and a series of feature films and short subjects called "The Harold Lloyd Classic
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1994· 1 entry
Was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld
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1990· 1 entry
The documentary Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius was produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, following two similar series based on Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton
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1975· 1 entry
After attempting to maintain the home as a museum of film history, as Lloyd had wished, the Lloyd family sold it to a developer in 1975.
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1971· 2 entries
Died 1971-03-08.
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At the age of 77 in his Greenacres home in Beverly Hills, California
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1965· 1 entry
Was interviewed by the Social Security Administration
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1960· 1 entry
For his contribution to motion pictures with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1503 Vine Street
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1956· 1 entry
The New York Times reported "Lloyd's Career Will Be Filmed"
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1955· 1 entry
And coroneted an Inspector General Honorary, 33°, in 1965
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1953· 2 entries
And three times on This Is Your Life: in 1954 for a tribute to Mack Sennett and another for Bebe Daniels, and in 1955, when he was surprised for his own tribute
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Lloyd received an Academy Honorary Award for being a "master comedian and good citizen"
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
Through RKO under the title Mad Wednesday
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1949· 2 entries
90,000 people were present at Soldier Field, including then sitting U
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Lloyd reissued one of his talkies, Movie Crazy, to theaters through a small, independent distributor (rather than a major studio, which would insist on more control than Lloyd was willing to grant)
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1943· 1 entry
A portion of Lloyd's personal inventory of his silent films (then estimated to be worth $2 million) was destroyed in August 1943 when his film vault caught fire.
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1941· 1 entry
But otherwise retired from the screen until 1947
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1937· 1 entry
Lloyd sold the real estate of his studio, Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Company, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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1931· 1 entry
Co-founded the 400-seat Beverly Hills Little Theatre for Professionals
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1929· 1 entry
Lloyd had completed the silent feature Welcome Danger, but talking pictures had become a sensation
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1927· 1 entry
His was the fourth concrete ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, preserving his handprints, footprints and autograph, along with the outline of his famed glasses (which were actually a pair of sunglasses with the lense
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1926· 1 entry
Became a 32° Scottish Rite Mason in the Valley of Los Angeles, California
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1925· 1 entry
At the height of his movie career, Lloyd became a Freemason at the Alexander Hamilton Lodge No
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1924· 3 entries
And Lloyd formed his own independent production company, the Harold Lloyd Film Corporation, He now made feature films exclusively, releasing them first through Pathé, then Paramount
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They had two children together: Gloria Lloyd (1924–2012) and Harold Clayton Lloyd Jr. (1931–1971).
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They also adopted Gloria Freeman (1924–1986) in September 1930, whom they renamed Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd but was known as Peggy for most of her life.
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1921· 1 entry
Roach and Lloyd moved from shorts to feature-length comedies
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1919· 2 entries
While posing for some promotional still photographs in the Los Angeles Witzel Photography Studio, he picked up what he thought was a prop bomb and lit it with a cigarette
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Bebe Daniels declined to renew her contract with Hal Roach, leaving the Lloyd series to pursue her dramatic aspirations
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1910· 1 entry
After his father had several business venture failures, Lloyd's parents divorced
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1893· 2 entries
Born 1893-04-20.
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In Burchard, Nebraska, the son of James Darsie Lloyd and Sarah Elisabeth Fraser
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