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Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films. [1] One of the most influential film comedians of the silent era, Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and talkies, from 1914 to 1947. His bespectacled "glasses character" was a ...
Jul 25, 2014 · Harold Lloyd is quite another matter. He is not a comic artist, although he stands with Chaplin and Buster Keaton in the first trio of the screen's laugh-makers, above and apart altogether from...
Apr 16, 2024 · Harold Lloyd (born April 20, 1893, Burchard, Nebraska, U.S.—died March 8, 1971, Hollywood, California) was an American film comedian who was the highest-paid star of the 1920s silent era of film and one of cinema’s most popular personalities.
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Jan 12, 2006 · Premiere: 11/15/1989. “The King of Daredevil Comedy,” Harold Lloyd is best remembered today as the young man dangling desperately from a clock tower in the 1923 classic Safety Last. At...
Sep 12, 2014 · Harold Lloyd we remember today not for his “Lonesome Luke” character (a Chaplin knock-off) with which he started his career, but with his “Glasses Character.”. Like Keaton on screen he faced insurmountable odds to achieve his goals, but unlike Keaton his face was exceptionally expressive. His comedy was physical like Chaplin’s, a ...
Sep 12, 2019 · Lloyd’s first attempt at a trademark character was Lonesome Luke, a somewhat formless personality that borrowed from Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. The mustachioed character anchored roughly 100 shorts before Lloyd unveiled his more original, enduring “Glasses” persona. Portrait of Harold Lloyd, dated 1924 via Flickr. “Glasses” was ...
May 5, 2021 · The Gateway screening was the first time I fully appreciated Harold Lloyd as a comic genius. Though not as well-known as Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, his films are no less remarkable. In his early days of his film career, Harold was simply a Chaplin imitator with his “Lonesome Luke” persona.
