biography
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Lloyd, Harold (Clayton)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1971)
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| biography:
| Film comedian, born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA. Stagestruck from an early age, he started as a film extra in 1913, and subsequently made hundreds of short, silent comedies, adopting from 1917 his character of the unassuming ‘nice guy’ in horn-rimmed glasses and straw hat. He became one of America's most popular daredevil comedians in films such as High and Dizzy (1920) and, most famously, Safety Last (1923), in which he dangles perilously from the hands of a high-rise clock face. He enjoyed a remarkable run of hits from Why Worry? (1923) to Speedy (1928), and received an honorary Academy Award in 1952. |
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