Hotmail
Frank Lloyd
:
Overview
 Avg.User Rating:  0 RatingRate this person:
Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: February 2, 1888 in Glasgow, Scotland Death: August 10, 1960 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA Biography:An actor in British theater while still a teenager, Scottish-born "Frank Lloyd" came to the U.S. in 1913, and after acting in films he turned to writing and directing. By the late teens he was helming a series of notable films starring "William Farnum", ranging from historic adaptations (a seven-reel version of "A Tale Of Two Cities" [1917] and a ten-reel "Les Miserables" [1918]) to "Zane Grey" westerns ("Riders of the Purple Sage" [1918], "The Rainbow Trail" [1918]). Lloyd's notable films of the '20s include "Oliver Twist" (1922) with "Lon Chaney" as Fagin, the "Milton Sills" swashbuckler "The Sea Hawk" (1924), and his Academy Award-winning historical drama "The Divine Lady" (1929). A prolific and reliable craftsman, Lloyd's enduring popularity resides on his 1930s films: "Cavalcade" (1933), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), and the "Preston Sturges"-scripted "If I Were King" (1938). His '40s films -- an... Full Biography
| |||||||||||||||||||||
| advertisement |
Movie data provided by:
