Harold Lloyd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harold Lloyd

American film actor and producer

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1893

Place of Birth: Burchard, Nebraska, United States

Date of Death: 08-Mar-1971

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, actor, comedian, stunt performer, executive producer, film director, film producer, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.Lloyd is considered alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most influential film comedians of the silent film era.
Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947.
His bespectacled "Glass" character was a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who matched the zeitgeist of the 1920s-era United States. His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats.
Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street (in reality a trick shot) in Safety Last! (1923) is considered one of the most enduring images in all of cinema.
Lloyd performed the lesser stunts himself, despite having injured himself in August 1919 while doing publicity pictures for the Roach studio.
An accident with a bomb mistaken as a prop resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on future films with the use of a special prosthetic glove, and was almost undetectable on the screen). Although Lloyd's individual films were not as commercially successful as Chaplin's on average, he was far more prolific (releasing 12 feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just four), and made more money overall ($15.7 million to Chaplin's $10.5 million).