Harold Lloyd is a famous American silent movie actor. He was
one of the most popular movie actors out there along with Charlie Chaplin and
Buster Keaton. He made almost 200 movies, silent and also some films with
audio, which he made later. He started
acting in one-reel films shortly after moving to California. Harold also
started working for Thomas Edison’s motion pictures company, and eventually partnered
up with fellow struggling actor and director, Hal Roach, who formed his own
studio in 1913. The hard-working Lloyd was the most successful out of all of
Roach’s comical actors between 1915 and 1919.
In real life, Harold didn’t want anyone to shake his right hand;
If he knew you well or liked you he would let you shake his hand. The reason
for this was because on his right hand he only had three fingers. In the
shooting for one of his silent films, Harold was supposed to light a cigar with
a fake bomb, except somehow that fake bomb turned out to be a real bomb! The
real bomb exploded shortly after lighting and left Lloyd unconscious and when
he finally woke up, he looked down and noticed that his thumb and index finger
were blown off. For the rest of his career he had to wear skin-colored gloves
and had two fake fingers.
Now, because he was an actor, Harold Lloyd wore lots of
makeup. When he was off set he didn’t wear any and looked completely different
from his character on the screen. And because of that, he could go to a local
park unnoticed and sit at a nearby bench and would wait till someone sat next
to him. Once he had company, he would start asking them questions, mostly about
himself. He did this because he wanted to know who his fans were, they never
figured out it was him and so he always got a kick out of that. In the 1994
comedy, Dumb and Dumber, there are two characters: Lloyd Christmas and Harry
Dunne, these Characters were actually named after the great Harold Lloyd.
Harold was born on April 20, 1893 and died on March 8, 1971 and we will remember
him from his great acting, witty comments, and of course his amazing physical
comedy.
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