Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd
Director de cine estadounidense
Harold Lloyd nació el 20 de abril de 1894 en Burchard, Nebraska.
Aficionado desde niño al cine, cuando cuenta doce años trabaja como acomodador en el Teatro Orpheon de Omaha. Allí conoció al actor John Lane Connor, director de la Compañía Ambulante Burwood.
En 1907 Connor le dio un papelito en la obra "Tess of the D'Urbevilles".
Cursó estudios en la Escuela de Arte Dramático de San Diego. Después trabaja como figurante y en 1914 comenzó a rodar como estrella los primeros cortometrajes para Hal Roach, con el que colaboró hasta 1923.
Después de interpretar personajes de Willie Work y de Lonesome Luke, en 1917 comenzó a ser el célebre "joven con gafas de concha", imagen que le daría la fama.
A menudo representaba verdaderos números acrobáticos (El hombre mosca, 1923).
Junto a Bebe Daniels y Snub Pollard consiguió al principio gran éxito en numerosos cortometrajes.
Tras algún tiempo se pasó al largometraje que continuó interpretando hasta el final de los años treinta. Al final del cine mudo, su creación sufrió un parón.
En 1923 contrajo matrimonio con la actriz Mildred Davis con la que tuvo dos hijos también actores Harold Lloyd Jr. y Gloria Lloyd. En 1919 sufrió un accidente al hacerse una foto publicitaria, lo que le hizo perder una mano.
Está considerado junto a Charles Chaplin y Buster Keaton, como uno de los más importantes comediantes.
Harold Lloyd falleció el 8 de marzo de 1971 a causa de un cáncer en Beverly Hills, California.
Filmografía
1962 Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy
1961 Days of Thrills and Laughter
1947 The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1938 Professor Beware
1936 The Milky Way
1934 The Cat's Paw
1932 Movie Crazy
1930 Feet First
1929 Welcome Danger
1928 Speedy
1927 The Kid Brother
1926 For Heaven's Sake
1925 The Freshman
1924 Hot Water
1924 Girl Shy
1924 Hot Water / Safety Last
1923 Safety Last
1923 Why Worry?
1923 Dogs of War
1923 Never Weaken / Why Worry?
1922 Grandma's Boy
1922 Doctor Jack
1921 I Do
1921 Never Weaken
1921 Among Those Present
1921 A Sailor-Made Man
1921 Be My Wife
1921 Now or Never
1920 Haunted Spooks
1920 Get out and Get Under
1920 An Eastern Westerner
1920 High and Dizzy
1920 Number, Please
1919 Crack Your Heels
1919 The Dutiful Dub
1919 Count Your Change
1919 Count the Votes
1919 Chop Suey & Co.
1919 A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919 From Hand to Mouth
1919 Heap Big Chief
1919 He Leads, Others Follow
1919 Just Dropped In
1919 At the Old Stage Door
1919 Ask Father
1919 His Royal Slyness Director
1919 Don't Shove
1919 Captain Kidd's Kids
1919 Bumping into Broadway
1919 Back to the Woods
1919 Billy Blazes, Esq.
1919 Before Breakfast
1919 Soft Money r
1919 Swat the Crook
1919 Si, Senor
1919 A Sammy in Siberia
1919 Ring up the Curtain
1919 Spring Fever
1919 Young Mr. Jazz
1919 Going! Going! Gone!
1919 I'm on My Way
1919 Just Neighbors
1919 Never Touched Me
1919 Next Aisle Over
1919 The Marathon
1919 Look out Below
1919 Rajah
1919 Pistols for Breakfast
1919 Off the Trolley
1919 Pay Your Dues
1919 On the Fire
1918 Somewhere in Turkey
1918 Sic 'em, Towser
1918 Swing Your Partners
1918 Take a Chance
1918 That's Him
1918 Nothing But Trouble
1918 She Loves Me Not
1918 An Ozark Romance
1918 Pipe the Whiskers
1918 The Non-Stop Kid
1918 Are Crooks Dishonest?
1918 Beat It
1918 On the Jump
1918 I'm on My Way/The Non-Stop Kid Director/Actor
1918 Tip
1918 Two Scrambled
1918 Bees in His Bonnet
1918 Two-Gun Gussie
1918 Why Pick on Me?
1918 The City Slicker
1918 Hey There!
1918 Bride and Gloom
1918 Hit Him Again
1918 Follow the Crowd
1918 Hear 'em Rave
1918 A Gasoline Wedding
1918 Fireman Save My Child
1918 Look Pleasant, Please
1918 Let's Go
1918 The Big Idea
1918 It's a Wild Life
1918 Kicking the Germ out of Germany
1918 Kicked Out
1918 Lamb
1917 Luke's Busy Day
1917 Luke's Trolley Troubles
1917 Luke's Lost Liberty
1917 Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
1917 Pinched
1917 Move On
1917 Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917 Over the Fence Actor/Director
1917 Rainbow Island
1917 Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
1917 Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
1917 Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
1917 Love, Laughs and Lather
1917 Lonesome Luke, Plumber
1917 Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
1917 Lonesome Luke, Messenger
1917 Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
1917 Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
1917 Bashful
1917 We Never Sleep
1917 All Aboard
1917 Stop! Luke! Listen!
1917 Birds of a Feather
1917 Bliss
1917 Lonesome Luke from London to Laramie
1917 By the Sad Sea Waves
1916 Luke, the Chauffeur
1916 Luke and the Bomb Throwers
1916 Marriage a la Carte
1916 Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
1916 Luke, Rank Impersonator
1916 Luke, Patient Provider
1916 Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
1916 Them Was the Happy Days!
1916 Luke and the Bang-Tails
1916 Lonesome Luke, Circus King
1916 Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
1916 Flirt
1916 Luke and the Rural Roughnecks
1916 Luke Pipes the Pippins
1916 Luke Lugs Luggage
1916 Luke Rides Roughshod
1916 Luke's Double
1916 Luke and the Mermaids
1916 Luke Foils the Villain
1916 Luke Does the Midway
1916 Luke Locates the Loot
1916 Luke Joins the Navy
1916 Luke Laughs Last
1916 Luke, Crystal Gazer
1916 Luke's Society Mixup
1916 Luke's Shattered Sleep
1916 Luke's Speedy Club Life
1916 Luke's Washful Waiting
1916 Luke's Fatal Flivver
1916 Luke's Late Lunchers
1916 Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
1916 Luke's Newsie Knockout
1916 Luke's Movie Muddle
1916 Luke's Lost Lamb
1915 Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
1915 A One Night Stand
1915 Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
1915 Lonesome Luke
1915 Peculiar Patients' Pranks
1915 Ragtime Snap Shots
1915 Some Baby
1915 Bughouse Bellhops
1915 Giving Them Fits
1915 Fresh from the Farm
1915 Just Nuts
1915 Great While It Lasted
1915 Once Every Ten Minutes
1913 Fatty and His Funny Friends
