Harold Lloyd

Internet Movie Database Entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516001/. In 2002 he received a Fellowship of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the highest award given by the Academy. Talent is not yet signed, but the producers are Jennifer Dana and Mark Gordon. He also starred as Gus the Theatre Cat in the Video recording of the Musical Cats in 1996. Sony Pictures plans a remake of "Safety Last!" for release in 2006. His most famous television role is probably as the title character in Quatermass for ITV in 1979. Lloyd was notorious for using his access to get young actresses to pose for him, and in 2004, his granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd produced a book of selections from his photographs, "Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D!" (ISBN 1579123945). In recent years, he has appeared on television only on special occasions.

Harold Lloyd has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1994, he was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. In 1976, he was knighted. Lloyd was usually about 20 feet above the ground, but the camera was positioned so that the top of the tunnel was out of shot, and in perspective Lloyd appeared to be hanging above the lower road about a hundred feet below. Altogether he appeared in over a hundred films. The documentary revealed that many of Lloyd's high-altitude stunts were performed on dummy buildings above the entrance to a road tunnel. For his role as the village idiot in Ryan's Daughter (1970) - a complete departure from his usual style - Mills won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lloyd was the subject of a television documentary series, Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, which followed similar documentaries about the other two geniuses of the silent movies, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In 1941, he married the dramatist, Mary Hayley Bell, and their two daughters, Juliet and Hayley, are both actresses.

He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. He took the lead in Great Expectations in 1936, and subsequently made his career playing traditionally British heroes such as Sir Robert Falcon Scott in Scott of the Antarctic (1949). Lloyd died at the age of 77 from prostate cancer on March 8, 1971, in Beverly Hills, California, USA. Mills made his film debut in The Midshipmaid (1932), and came to prominence as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, opposite Robert Donat. In 1952, Lloyd received a special Academy Award for being a "master comedian and good citizen.". Born John Lewis Ernest Watts Mills in Felixstowe, Suffolk, he took an early interest in acting, making his professional debut at the London Hippodrome in 1927. The films ignited a renewed interest in Lloyd's work. Sir John Mills (born February 22, 1908) is a British actor.

In 1952 Lloyd produced two compilation films, featuring scenes from his old comedies, Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy and The Funny Side of Life (1953). Musical Cats Video (1996). The film was a failure. Who's That Girl (1987). In 1947, director Preston Sturges brought him out of retirement for one more film, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978). By the 1940s, Lloyd was no longer active in the film industry. Young Winston (1972).

Lloyd's autobiography, An American Comedy, was published in 1928. Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). Some of the earliest 2-color Technicolor tests were shot at his Beverly Hills home. King Rat (1965). Lloyd was involved with early color film experiments. Swiss Family Robinson (1960). Lloyd's home, "GreenAcres" has 44 rooms, 26 bathrooms, 12 fountains, 12 gardens and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tiger Bay (1959) - with daughter Hayley Mills.

They also adopted Peggy in 1930. Ice Cold in Alex (1958). Lloyd married his leading lady, Mildred Davis, in February of 1923, with whom he had two children; Gloria, born in 1923, and Harold, born in 1931. The Colditz Story (1955). Lloyd was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hobson's Choice (1954). Lloyd soon began working with Thomas Edison's motion picture company, Universal, and eventually ended up with Hal Roach. The History of Mr Polly (1949).

Lloyd, born in Burchard, Nebraska, started acting in one-reel film comedies in 1912 in San Diego, California. Scott of the Antarctic (1948). Lloyd did his own stunts and worked without safety nets, even after severely injuring his right hand in a 1919 accident with a prop bomb. Great Expectations (1946). Lloyd is best known for his extended chase sequences that included daredevil physical feats like climbing the sides of tall buildings, hanging precariously from clocks, flagpoles and ledges. The Way to the Stars (1945). Lloyd made nearly 500 comedy films, both silent and sound. This Happy Breed (1944).

Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20, 1893 - March 8, 1971) was an American actor. In Which We Serve (1942).