Harold Lloyd
Generally ranked alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the masters of comedy during the silent era, Harold Lloyd created the so-called Glasses Character, an ever-optimistic, constantly striving everyman who thoroughly captured the public's fancy during the 1920s. In fact, throughout most of the decade, his films proved to be more popular than Chaplin's or Keaton's. A pioneer of sight gags and extreme stunts, Lloyd risked life and limb to create some of the most iconic images in silent film, most notably in "Safety Last!" (1923), in which he famously hung by a broken clock hand ten stories off the ground without use of trick photography. He went on to enormous success with hits like his personal favorite "Grandma's Boy" (1922), "Girl Shy" (1924) and "Welcome Danger" (1929), before enjoying measurable popularity in the sound era with "Feet First" (1930), "The Cat's-Paw" (1934) and "The Milky Way" (1936), with the latter being arguably his best talkie. Though his dissolved his production company in 1938 and effectively retired in the next decade, Lloyd fell into obscurity, only to regain prominence after his death, proving that the great comedian's appeal was timeless.
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Harold Lloyd
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harold Lloyd's Funny Side of Life | Unknown (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Funny Side of Life |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
- | 1963 |
No Score Yet |
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Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
- | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mad Wednesday | Harold Diddlebock (Character) | - | 1947 |
89% |
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | Harold Diddlebock (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Favorite Spy | Producer | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
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A Girl, a Guy and a Gob | Producer | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Professor Beware |
Prof. Dean Lambert (Character), Producer |
- | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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The Milky Way | Burleigh Sullivan (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet |
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The Cat's Paw |
Ezekiel Cobb (Character), Producer |
- | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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Movie Crazy |
Harold Hall aka Trouble (Character), Director, Producer |
- | 1932 |
No Score Yet |
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Feet First | Harold Horne (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet |
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Welcome Danger | Harold Bledsoe (Character) | - | 1929 |
100% |
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Speedy | Harold "Speedy" Swift (Character) | - | 1928 |
92% |
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The Kid Brother |
Harold Hickory (Character), Director, Producer |
- | 1927 |
No Score Yet |
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For Heaven's Sake |
The Uptown Boy (Character), Producer |
- | 1926 |
95% |
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The Freshman |
The Freshman (Character), Producer |
- | 1925 |
No Score Yet |
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Girl Shy |
Harold Meadows (Character), Producer |
- | 1924 |
No Score Yet |
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Hot Water |
Hubby (Character), Producer |
- | 1924 |
No Score Yet |
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Why Worry? | Harold Van Pelham (Character) | - | 1923 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dogs of War | Self | - | 1923 |
97% |
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Safety Last | The Boy (Character) | - | 1923 |
No Score Yet |
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Dr. Jack | Dr. "Jack" Jackson (Character) | - | 1922 |
83% |
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Grandma's Boy |
Sonny, The Boy/ Writer |
- | 1922 |
No Score Yet |
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Never Weaken | The Boy (Character) | - | 1921 |
No Score Yet |
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Now or Never | The Boy (Character) | - | 1921 |
No Score Yet |
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I Do! | The Boy (Character) | - | 1921 |
No Score Yet |
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A Sailor-Made Man | The Boy (Character) | - | 1921 |
No Score Yet |
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An Eastern Westerner | The Boy (Character) | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet |
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High and Dizzy | The Boy (Character) | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet |
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Number, Please? | The Boy (Character) | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet |
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His Royal Slyness | The American Boy (Character) | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet |
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Haunted Spooks | The Boy (Character) | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet |
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Get Out and Get Under | The Boy (Character) | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Captain Kidd's Kids | The Boy (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet |
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Bumping Into Broadway | The Boy (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet |
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Just Neighbors |
The Boy (Character), Director |
- | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spring Fever | Unknown (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Marathon | Harold (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet |
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Young Mr. Jazz | Harold (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Sammy in Siberia | The American Boy (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Next Aisle Over | The Hustler (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chop Suey & Co. | Unknown (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet |
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Billy Blazes, Esq. | Billy Blazes (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ring Up the Curtain | The Stage Hand (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet |
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From Hand to Mouth |
The Boy (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1919 |
No Score Yet |
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Ask Father | The Boy (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Shove | Harold (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Non-Stop Kid | Harold (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two-Gun Gussie | Two-Gun Gussie (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Are Crooks Dishonest? | Unknown (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Take a Chance | The Sport (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Look Pleasant, Please | Harold (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Gasoline Wedding | The Boy (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That's Him | Unknown (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Idea | Harold (Character) | - | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bashful | The Boy (Character) | - | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | By the Sad Sea Waves | The Boy (Character) | - | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lonesome Luke, Messenger | Lonesome Luke (Character) | - | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All Aboard | The Boy (Character) | - | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Over the Fence |
Ginger (Character), Director |
- | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Luke's Movie Muddle | Luke (Character) | - | 1916 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Luke's Shattered Sleep | Lonesome Luke (Character) | - | 1916 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Submarine Pirate | Cook (Character) | - | 1915 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers | Unknown (Character) | - | 1915 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1953 |