Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd is, for my money, an underrated giant of silent comedy. Born in rural Nebraska, he stands alongside Chaplin and Keaton yet often slips from the conversation, which feels deeply unfair. That bespectacled everyman, dangling from a clock face without a safety net, embodies a bravery and charm I find irresistible. Across nearly 200 films from 1914 onward he wrote, directed, and produced, crowned by a 1952 Honorary Academy Award. What stuns me most is that footage shot a century ago still genuinely makes audiences laugh. He risked his life for laughter, and no monument honors comedy better than that enduring joy.

Name (English)

Harold Lloyd

Name (Japanese)

ハロルド・ロイド

Reading

はろるど・ろいど

Born

April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Snake

Origin

Burchard, Nebraska, United States

Height

178 cm

Occupation

film actor / actor / film director / film producer / screenwriter

High school

San Diego High School

Awards & achievements

• 1952 Academy Honorary Award
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttps://www.haroldlloyd.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Lloyd
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104340

Tags

• Nebraska
• film actor
• actor
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.