Harold Lloyd

Biography

Harold Lloyd (April 18, 1893 –March 8, 1971) was an American actor. He has been called the cinema’s “first man in space.” His comedy wasn’t imported from Vaudeville or the British Music Hall like his contemporaries, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Harold learned to use the camera the way other comics used a bowler hat or a funny walk. In 1917 he shed the comedic clown personas prevalent in comedy for hundreds of years and pioneered romantic comedy by the ordinary guy up on the screen –- a guy with faults, and fears, “the boy next door.” With his young man in horned-rimmed glasses, he created classic films.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

This Is Your Life

Self

What's My Line?

Self

Hollywood

Self

Jackie Chan: My Story

(archive footage)

Rire et sourire : Le Splendid

Le Voyage au paradis, Monte là-dessus, À là hauteur

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2021	The Real Charlie Chaplin
2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)
2010	Sigrid Holmquist	Arthur Cox (archive footage)
2006	Harold's Hollywood: On Location Then & Now	Self (archive footage)
2005	Slapstick Symposium Too: The Harold Lloyd Collection Volume 2	Self
2005	Remembering Harold	Himself (archive footage)
2004	Slapstick Symposium: The Harold Lloyd Collection	Self
2002	Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998	Jackie Chan: My Story	(archive footage)
1989	Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius	Self (archive footage)
1979	The Hollywood Clowns	(archive footage)
1963	Funny Side of Life	Himself
1962	Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy	(archive footage)
1960	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood	Self
1960	Lifetime of Comedy	(archive footage)
1953	Yesterday and Today	(archive footage)
1951	The Slappiest Days of Our Lives	(archive footage)
1947	The Sin of Harold Diddlebock	Harold Diddlebock
1938	Professor Beware	Prof. Dean Lambert
1936	The Milky Way	Burleigh Sullivan
1934	The Cat's-Paw	Ezekiel Cobb
1932	Movie Crazy	Harold Hall aka 'Trouble'
1931	Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)	Self
1931	The House That Shadows Built	(archive footage)
1930	Feet First	Harold Horne
1929	Welcome Danger	Harold Bledsoe
1928	Speedy	Harold 'Speedy' Swift
1927	The Kid Brother	Harold Hickory
1927	Character Studies	Self (uncredited)
1926	For Heaven's Sake	The Uptown Boy
1925	The Freshman	Harold Lamb
1925	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1924	Girl Shy	Harold Meadows
1924	Hot Water	Harold
1923	Safety Last!	The Boy
1923	Why Worry?	Harold Van Pelham
1923	Dogs of War!	Harold Lloyd
1922	Grandma's Boy	Grandma's Boy
1922	Dr. Jack	Dr. 'Jack' Jackson
1921	Never Weaken	The Boy
1921	A Sailor-Made Man	The Boy
1921	Now or Never	The Boy
1921	Among Those Present	O'Reilly, The Boy
1921	I Do	The Boy
1920	An Eastern Westerner	The Boy
1920	Number, Please?	The Boy
1920	High and Dizzy	The Boy
1920	Haunted Spooks	The Boy
1920	Get Out and Get Under	The Boy
1920	His Royal Slyness	The American Boy
1919	From Hand to Mouth	The Boy
1919	Ask Father	The Boy
1919	Bumping Into Broadway	The Boy
1919	Billy Blazes, Esq.	Billy Blazes
1919	Captain Kidd's Kids	The Boy
1919	Pay Your Dues
1919	Just Neighbors	The Boy
1919	Spring Fever	The Boy
1919	Si, Senor
1919	Ring Up the Curtain	The Stage Hand
1919	Young Mr. Jazz	Glasses Character
1919	A Sammy in Siberia	Sammy Strong - the American Boy
1919	Don't Shove	Harold
1919	A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919	Next Aisle Over	The Hustler
1919	I'm on My Way	The boy
1919	On the Fire	The Chef
1919	Never Touched Me	The Boy
1919	Going! Going! Gone!
1919	Count Your Change
1919	Chop Suey & Co.
1919	The Marathon	Harold
1919	Back to the Woods	A Millionaire
1919	Be My Wife
1919	Look Out Below	The Boy
1919	The Dutiful Dub
1919	Just Dropped In
1919	Crack Your Heels
1919	Pistols for Breakfast
1919	Swat the Crook
1919	Off the Trolley	The Man
1919	At the Old Stage Door
1919	Heap Big Chief
1919	The Rajah
1919	His Only Father
1919	Wanted - $5,000
1919	Before Breakfast
1919	He Leads, Others Follow
1919	Soft Money
1919	Count the Votes
1918	Take a Chance	The Sport
1918	Swing Your Partners
1918	Two Scrambled
1918	That's Him
1918	Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
1918	Are Crooks Dishonest?	Harold
1918	Somewhere in Turkey	Professor O.B. Lively
1918	Sic 'Em, Towser
1918	The City Slicker	Harold
1918	Two-Gun Gussie	Two-Gun Gussie (Harold)
1918	The Non-Stop Kid	Harold
1918	Pipe the Whiskers	Janitor
1918	Fireman Save My Child	Harold
1918	Why Pick on Me?
1918	Hear 'Em Rave
1918	An Ozark Romance
1918	Look Pleasant, Please	Harold
1918	Hey There	The Boy
1918	Hit Him Again
1918	On the Jump	Harold - The Squirrel Inn Bellhop
1918	A Gasoline Wedding	The Boy
1918	The Tip
1918	Beat It
1918	Here Come the Girls
1918	Let's Go	Soda Jerk
1918	It's a Wild Life	Boy
1918	Kicked Out
1918	Nothing But Trouble
1918	She Loves Me Not
1918	Follow the Crowd
1918	Bride and Gloom	Groom
1918	Bees in His Bonnet
1918	The Lamb
1917	Bashful	Harold
1917	Move On	Chester Fields
1917	We Never Sleep	Lonesome Luke
1917	All Aboard	The Boy
1917	Clubs Are Trump	Lonesome Luke
1917	The Flirt	Harold
1917	Love, Laughs and Lather	Lonesome Luke
1917	Rainbow Island	Harold
1917	From Laramie to London	Lonesome Luke
1917	Bliss	Harold
1917	Birds of a Feather	Lonesome Luke
1917	By the Sad Sea Waves	The Boy
1917	Lonesome Luke Loses Patients	Lonesome Luke
1917	Over the Fence	Ginger, a Tailor
1917	Lonesome Luke, Messenger	Lonesome Luke
1917	Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley	Lonesome Luke
1917	Lonesome Luke's Lively Life	Lonesome Luke
1917	Luke's Trolley Troubles	Lonesome Luke
1917	Drama's Dreadful Deal	Guest appearance (rumored)
1917	Step Lively
1917	The Big Idea	Harold
1917	Pinched
1917	Lonesome Luke's Wild Women	Lonesome Luke
1917	Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle	Lonesome Luke
1917	Luke's Lost Liberty	Lonesome Luke
1917	Luke's Busy Day	Lonesome Luke
1917	Lonesome Luke, Lawyer	Lonesome Luke
1917	Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire	Lonesome Luke
1917	Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon	Lonesome Luke
1917	Lonesome Luke, Plumber	Lonesome Luke
1917	Stop! Luke! Listen!	Lonesome Luke
1917	Lonesome Luke, Mechanic	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke Locates the Loot	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Fireworks Fizzle	Luke
1916	Luke, Rank Impersonator	Luke
1916	Luke, Patient Provider	Luke
1916	Luke and the Bang-Tails	Luke
1916	Luke's Speedy Club Life	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke and the Mermaids	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke Does the Midway	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Lost Lamb	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke, Crystal Gazer	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke Rides Roughshod	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Movie Muddle	Luke
1916	Luke Joins the Navy	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Shattered Sleep	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke and the Rural Roughnecks	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke, the Candy Cut-Up	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Society Mixup	Lonesome Luke
1916	Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke Lugs Luggage	Lonesome Luke
1916	Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke Foils the Villain	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke Pipes the Pippins	Lonesome Luke
1916	Lonesome Luke, Circus King	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Double	Lonesome Luke
1916	Them Was the Happy Days!	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke and the Bomb Throwers	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Late Lunchers	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke Laughs Last	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Fatal Flivver	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Washful Waiting	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke, the Chauffeur	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke's Preparedness Preparations	Lonesome Luke
1916	Luke, the Gladiator	Lonesome Lukius, Gladiator
1916	Luke's Newsie Knockout	Lonesome Luke
1915	Spit-ball Sadie	Lonesome Luke
1915	Her Painted Hero	Minister (uncredited)
1915	Willie Runs the Park	Willie Work
1915	Pete, the Pedal Polisher	Pete
1915	The Greater Courage	(uncredited) (unconfirmed)
1915	Fresh from the Farm	Rube Slivers
1915	Some Baby	Lonesome Luke
1915	A Mixup for Mazie	Luke de Fluke
1915	The Hungry Actors	Bandit
1915	From Italy's Shores	Gangster (uncredited)
1915	Beyond His Fondest Hopes	(unconfirmed)
1915	Close-Cropped Clippings	Pete
1915	Just Nuts	Willie Work
1915	A Submarine Pirate	Cook (uncredited)
1915	Giving Them Fits	Luke de Fluke
1915	Love, Loot and Crash	Italain Fruit Vendor (uncredited)
1915	Their Social Splash	The Minister
1915	Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers	Suitor
1915	Court House Crooks	Youth out of Work (uncredited)
1915	Peculiar Patients' Pranks	Lonesome Luke
1915	Bughouse Bellhops	Lonesome Luke
1915	Tinkering with Trouble	Lonesome Luke aka Easy Otis
1915	Great While It Lasted	Byron Beanskin
1915	Ragtime Snap Shots	Lonesome Luke aka Lucas
1915	A Foozle at the Tee Party	Lonesome Luke
1915	Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks	Oscar Weeban aka Lonesome Luke
1915	Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster	Lonesome Luke
1915	Hogan's Romance Upset	Fight Spectator
1914	The Patchwork Girl of Oz	Tottenhot
1914	'Curses!' They Remarked	Stuntman (rumored)
1914	Sealed Orders	Extra (unconfirmed)
1914	The Sandhill Lovers	Gambler
1914	His Heart His Hand and His Sword	Extra (rumored)
1914	Twixt Love and Fire
1914	Samson	Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)
1913	The Old Monk's Tale	Yaqui Indian (extra) (uncredited)
1913	The Twelfth Juror	Boy at Barn Dance (uncredited)
1913	Hulda of Holland	Bit Role (uncredited)
1913	Cupid in a Dental Parlor	Extra (rumored)
1913	His Chum the Baron	Extra (rumored)
1913	Algy on the Force	Extra (rumored)
1913	Rory o' the Bogs	Posse Member (uncredited)

Year	TV Show	Role
1980	Hollywood	Self
1978	Rire et sourire : Le Splendid	Le Voyage au paradis, Monte là-dessus, À là hauteur
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self
1952	This Is Your Life	Self
1950	What's My Line?	Self
1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self