Harold Lloyd
(April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971)
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is most famous for his silent comedy films.
Harold Lloyd ranks along side other famous performers like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Spike Milligan which at the time of the silent film era they were some of the best creators. His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes of heart rating emotions and daredevil physical feats and stunts for which he is best remembered today. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in Safety Last a 1923 film which is one of the most enduring images in all of cinema. Lloyd did many of these dangerous 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.Although Lloyd's individual films were not as commercially successful as Chaplin's on average, he was far more prolific, releasing twelve feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just four.
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