Known for:	Safety Last!, The Freshman, Speedy
Birth name:	Harold Clayton Lloyd
Birthday:	20 April 1893, Burchard, Nebraska, USA
Height:	5' 10" (1.78 m)

His home, "GreenAcres" has 44 rooms, 26 bathrooms, 12 fountains, 12 gardens and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) A 1919 accident with a prop bomb which turned out to be a live bomb, cost him the thumb and forefinger of his right hand. In subsequent films, he wore a glove and prosthetic device to hide it. Remarkably, he was able to do many of his gags (he employed a stunt man for serious stunts) convincingly afterward. Lloyd's "Glasses character" was the inspiration for Superman's identity as Clark Kent. Like that character, Lloyd found that he could hide his identity simply by taking off the glasses. Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Begonia Corridor. According to the book, "The History Of Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays", Lloyd was originally slated to play the lead role of Elwood P. Dowd in Mary Chase's Broadway stage play "Harvey". Lloyd turned the part down, and it then went to Frank Fay. Pictured on one of ten 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, this set of stamps also honored Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Charles Chaplin, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Zasu Pitts, Theda Bara, Buster Keaton, and the Keystone Kops. Was immortalized in Futurama episode S03E08: That's Lobstertainment. In this episode we find out that Dr. Zoidberg has an uncle who was a silent actor, Harold Zoid. Aside from two talking films, The Milky Way & The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (AKA "The Sin of Harold Diddlebock"), all films from 1922 through Grandma's Boy, were owned by Lloyd. Many of the pre-1920 shorts were lost in a nitrate explosion in his film vault in 1943 and are now considered lost. A limited number of films rights were sold to Time-Life in 1998, and released on VHS format. The estate rejected offers to release them to DVD up until 2005, when they accepted an offer from New Line (some have also been restored and shown periodically on TCM). His films are set to be released on DVD somewhere in the next two years (2006-2007) (The two talking films are in the public domain, and all films before 1922 are owned by KINO having passed from Pathe and Roach) Harold is the Geat great uncle of Cappy Van Dien & Grace Van Dien. He adopted daughter Marjorie Elisabeth Lloyd in 1929, when she was five years old. Father of Harold Lloyd Jr. and Gloria Lloyd Roberts Brother of Gaylord Lloyd Son of J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd and Elisabeth Fraser Lloyd Grandfather of Suzanne Lloyd Hayes After Lloyd's career as an actor deserted him in 1938, he immersed -some would say drowned - himself into one hobby after another. While he bred Great Danes and collected cars earlier in life, he would later indulge himself in marathon movie nights several times each week, and become rabidly interested in photography (which allowed himself intimate contact with innumerable models) and later, in hi-fidelity sound systems. He placed standing orders for the entire catalogs of several record companies, amassing an enormous record collection. His actual autographs prior to 1936 are quite rare. His father, Foxy Lloyd was given the job as the official fan mail corresponder within the Harold Lloyd Corporation. Foxy's signature is easy to recognize - it's right out of the 19th Century and quite florid. HL's signature is much plainer and common only after his father retired to Palm Springs in 1936. HL found it impossible to dodge autograph seekers when he began whirlwind movie/bowling nights around LA as his acting career wound down about the same time. Real pre-1936 autographs exist mainly on contracts and extremely personal correspondence to Bebe Daniels. Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1960 Parts of Westworld were shot at his estate, Greenacres. He had expressed a desire to see his home preserved in some capacity related to his career but his will strangely neglected any funding for the enormous estate. His heirs briefly opened it as a tourist attraction (and filming location) but this failed to generate adequate income and it was later sold. Sam Taylor was the most important director for him. Was once one of the 10 richest entertainers in the world. Lloyd was extremely superstitious. His daily routines were dictated by his superstitions: he maintained that certain streets were unlucky and his chauffeurs were instructed to avoid them. He would habitually enter and exit rooms from the same doors and dress and undress in precise reverse order.

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