Hal Roach Studios actors

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Oliver Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Stan Laurel, James Parrott, Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson, Mae Busch, Billy Gilbert, Edgar Kennedy, Max Davidson, Bobby Dunn, Sam Lufkin, June Marlowe, Noah Young, Baldwin Cooke, Charlie Hall, Jimmy Aubrey, Priscilla Dean, Tommy Wonder, Jack Hill, Anita Garvin, Dorothy Coburn, Rosina Lawrence, Tiny Sandford, Vivien Oakland, Leo Willis, Dorothy Christy, Harry Bernard, Viola Richard. Excerpt: Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 ¿ March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies. Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America. His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats, for which he is best remembered today. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in Safety Last! (1923) 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 (the injury was disguised on future films with the use of a special prosthetic glove, though the glove often did not go by unnoticed). Although Lloyd's individual films were not as commercially successful as Charlie Chaplin's on average, he was far more prolific (releasing twelve feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just three), and made more money overall ($15.7 million to Chaplin's $10.5 million). Lloyd was born in Burchard, Nebraska to James Darsie Lloyd and Elizabeth Fraser; his paternal great-grandparents were from Wales. When he was a child, his parents divorced and Harold chose to stay with his father who was always dreaming up grand get-rich-quick schemes that ended in disasters. They eventually ended up in Omaha where Harold had his first acting experience in a local stock company. Harold attended East High School (Denver) and San Diego High School and received his stage training at the School of Dramatic Art (San D