Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd
Date of Birth: 20 Apr 1893
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 94 (Actor), 5 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Girl Shy
Harold Meadows (Lloyd) is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guide book for other bashful young men... (imdb)
Haunted Spooks
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking... (imdb)
The Kid Brother
The most important family in Hickoryville is (naturally enough) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn't have the muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary. (imdb)
Safety Last!
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself. (imdb)
Speedy
"Speedy" loses his job as a soda-jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes... (imdb)
Why Worry?
Harold Van Pelham (Lloyd) is a hypochondriac, rich businessman who sails to the tropics for his 'health.' Instead of the peace and seclusion he is seeking, he finds himself in the middle of a revolution. He is imprisoned where he befriends the friendly giant, Colosso (Aasen), and they engineer an escape. Together, they quell the revolution. (imdb)
Movie Crazy
Harold Hall, an accident prone young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in pictures. After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a screen-test, and goes off to Hollywood. (imdb)
The Cat\
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform crusade. (imdb)
The Milky Way
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title. (imdb)
The Freshman
Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular. (imdb)
Number, Please?
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent. (imdb)
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds a particularly potent drink at his local bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow). (imdb)
Billy Blazes, Esq.
The mining town of Peaceful Vale is a rough place, and sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher can do little about it, since the town is ruled by Crooked Charley, the gambler. Charley runs Pierre the tavern keeper out of town, and takes Pierre's daughter Nell as his prisoner. But when Billy Blazes sees Charley's henchmen harassing Pierre, he rescues Pierre and then proceeds to confront Charley back at the tavern. (imdb)
An Eastern Westerner
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her. (imdb)
Ask Father
Ask Father (1919) - Short Film
The young couple have decided to marry and it is time to ask the father for the hand of his daughter. Problem is, the father does not want to give the daughter away. So every time he goes to the office to ask the father, he is tossed out. He is ejected over and over, by different methods, while the girl waits and waits. (imdb)
From Hand to Mouth
As a penniless man worries about how he will manage to eat, he is joined by a young waif and her dog, who are in the same predicament... (imdb)
High and Dizzy
After a long wait, a young doctor finally has a patient come to his office. She is a young woman whose father has brought her to be treated for sleep-walking, but the father becomes annoyed with the doctor, and takes his daughter away. Soon afterward, the young doctor shares in a drinking binge with another doctor who has built a still in his office... (imdb)
Two-Gun Gussie
A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one. (imdb)
Never Touched Me
Little more than a demonstration of physical violence, and Harold and Snub try to slap each other to death, Bud Jamison gets beaten on the head by policemen with Billy clubs, and even Bebe gets her foot stepped on. (IMDB Comments)
Feet First
Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding. (imdb)
Dr. Jack
Good-hearted doctor Lloyd exposes a con-artist colleague.
Grandma\
Soft spoken Lloyd tries to prove he's not a coward and woo his dream girl by tracking down a vagrant.
Now or Never
Now or Never (1921) - Short Film
Young man (Lloyd) has agreed to come back for his childhood sweetheart when she turns 18. When he does, she has a child-in-tow from her job as a nanny. Zaniness ensues.
Bumping Into Broadway
Playwrite Lloyd tries to get his show on Broadway.
For Heaven\
The Uptown Boy, J. Harold Manners (Lloyd) is a millionaire playboy who falls for the Downtown Girl, Hope (Ralston) who works in Brother Paul's (Weigel) mission. In order to build up attendance, and win Hope's attention, Harold runs through town causing trouble, and winds up with a crowd chasing him right into the mission. He eventually wins the girl and they marry, but not without some interference from his high-brow friends. (imdb)
A Sailor-Made Man
A rich bachelor joins the Navy to prove himself to the father of the girl he loves.
Hot Water
Episodic look at married life and in-law problems. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; a wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow; and a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and is convinced that he has killed her. When she begins sleep-walking, he thinks that she has returned to haunt him. (imdb)
Welcome Danger
Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown. (imdb)
I Do
I Do (1921) - Short Film
Comic adventures of newlyweds and children. (imdb)
Just Neighbors
Suburban neighbors (Lloyd and Pollard) join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard. Further mayhem ensues when chickens are set loose. (imdb)
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father. (imdb)
His Royal Slyness
An American book salesman (Lloyd) is persuaded to go to the kingdom of Thermosa to impersonate the Prince. He is greeted by a peasants' revolt before the real prince shows up to claim his throne and princess. The revolution succeeds and the American is elected president of the new republic. (imdb)
Never Weaken
Never Weaken (1921) - Short Film
Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts. (imdb)
The Flirt
The Flirt (1917) - Short Film
A man follows a lady into the cafe she is working at hoping to get to know her better.
Bliss
Bliss (1917) - Short Film
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his 'title.' (imdb)
A Sammy in Siberia
Harold Lloyd saves a girl from a bunch of cossacks.
Get Out and Get Under
A young man is awakened from a nightmare by the telephone ringing - his girlfriend is calling him, because he is late for an amateur theatrical production. But before he can leave, he gets into an argument with his neighbor. Then, soon after he gets on the road, his car stalls. If he cannot get to the theater quickly, he might be replaced in the play by a rival. (imdb)
Professor Beware
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way. (imdb)
Among Those Present
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman. (imdb)
A Jazzed Honeymoon
Harold Lloyd! This time, he's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him mistaken for a boiler worker and yeah well, shoveling coal will beef up anyone. Except he manages to go into the wrong room... What'd you expect?! (Goldenthrush)
Fireman Save My Child
In this popular two reeler where Harold Lloyd runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground. (imdb)
Look Pleasant, Please
A lecherous photographer tricks a bewildered shop clerk into taking over as the manager of his photography studio in order to avoid the wrath of a customer's husband.
Court House Crooks
A judge and his frivolous wife are celebrating their second wedding anniversary. The wife insists he buy her a gift. He goes out and buys her a necklace and pendant, which he promptly loses. Its finder is the judge's district attorney, who thinks he can give it to the girl he is trying to woo, namely the judge's wife. An unemployed young man happens to have what was the discarded jewelry case, and the judge seeing it in his possession believes the unemployed man stole the necklace and pendant. (imdb)
Their Social Splash
Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the minister shows up, Charles Murray and a drunken Polly Moran manage to cause quite a fuss. (imdb)
Miss Fatty\
When a rich 'mothball magnate' checks into a hotel with his family, the mashers come out of the woodwork to woo his daughter (Arbuckle.) The scene shifts to the beach where the buxom heiress becomes stranded on a rock, where she is sunbathing, when the tide comes in. An hilarious rescue effort ensues. (imdb)
Luke Joins the Navy
The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing. After all, the decision seemed to come from no where and why Snub Pollard would also join is unclear. And, oddly, they seem to skip all training and are stationed on a navy ship. (imdb)
Luke\
MOVIE MUDDLE begins showing Luke as the owner of a movie theater that shows Pathé (the company that produced this short) films. He does everything--sells tickets, takes tickets, shows people to their seats. His only partners are the piano player and the bumbling projectionist, played by the great Snub Pollard. When a girl enters (Bebe Daniels), Luke's flirting gets the best of him. The film gets jammed, and via a smoking (literally) patron, the audience rushes out thinking there's a fire. (imdb)
By the Sad Sea Waves
Our hero saves a man from drowning, only to find that it is the wrong man. (imdb)
Rainbow Island
After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.
Move On
Move On (1917) - Short Film
Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements. (imdb)
All Aboard
All Aboard (1917) - Short Film
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward . . . and the girl. (imdb)
Over the Fence
Snitch steals Ginger's baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. (imdb)
The City Slicker
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices. (imdb)
The Non-Stop Kid
Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor. (imdb)
Hey There
Hey There (1918) - Short Film
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness.The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything. (imdb)
Why Pick on Me?
Why Pick on Me? is a 1918 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. (en.wikipedia.org)
Captain Kidd\
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates. (imdb)
Pay Your Dues
While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal order. He is abducted and initiated into the order, the process involving various hilarious indignities. (imdb)
Spring Fever
Spring Fever (1919) - Short Film
Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead. (imdb)
Don\
Don't Shove (1919) - Short Film
Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink. (imdb)
Next Aisle Over
Next Aisle Over is a 1919 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. (en.wikipedia.org)
I\
Harold Lloyd's character loves Bebe Daniels' character and is about to marry her.But then he meets the clan of Snub Pollard where it's a riot all the time.He doesn't dream of marriage so much anymore. (imdb)
On the Fire
On the Fire (1919) - Short Film
Many of the scenes in "On the Fire" seem to be direct copies from Arbuckle's earlier "Waiter's Ball." Such similarities as trying to kill a fish with a gun hopping around out of water, the tossing of the food to the waiters, and several other scenes seem to be carbons of Arbuckle's film. (imdb)
Going! Going! Gone!
Harold and Snub wind up at Bebe's place of business and start making a mess.... but Bebe still wins. (imdb)
Ring Up the Curtain
As a group of traveling players are about to arrive at the opera house where they have their next engagement, the manager of the house is in the process of venting his frustrations with his crew. Harold, one of the stage hands, takes a liking to one of the dancers, and he willingly helps her with her baggage - until he realizes that one of her props is a live snake, which causes turmoil when he allows it to get loose. Then, when the show begins, Harold ends up causing further disruptions. (imdb)
Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection: Harold\
A short documentary feature on Harold Lloyd. (imdb)
Take a Chance
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax. One of those. (TCM)
Lonesome Luke\
Luke runs the coat-check concession at the White Light Cafe. (imdb)
Hear \
Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Count Your Change
Count Your Change is a 1919 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Chop Suey & Co.
Chop Suey & Co. is a 1919 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
An Ozark Romance
Harold Lloyd & 'Snub' Pollard out among the wild life....
Young Mr. Jazz
Harold and his girl find themselves in a dangerous jazz club and are forced to fend off scheming thieves and the girl's domineering father, who finds some trouble of his own.
The Marathon
The Marathon (1919) - Short Film
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon. (imdb)
Clubs Are Trump
In pre-historic times (dream sequence), our hero, in a loin cloth, battles other cavemen over the opposite sex. (imdb)
Step Lively
Step Lively (1917) - Short Film
Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has her hands full with a lounge lizard who won't take no for an answer.
Harold Lloyd\
A compilation of clips from Harold Lloyd films.
Back to the Woods
Harold Lloyd and Snub going camping up in the wilds, where they run into bears, mountain lions, a skunk, and Bebe Daniels and her gun, who falls for Harold's City Slicker ways. (imdb)
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Keystone melodrama parody in which two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.
Bashful
Bashful (1917) - Short Film
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
Pinched
Pinched (1917) - Short Film
Pinched is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
Off the Trolley
Harold Lloyd takes a trolley with Snub behind the wheel and Bebe collecting the tickets.
Swing Your Partners
Hijinx at a classical dance academy when two tramps take a stab at ballet.
A Gasoline Wedding
A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she's doesn't know about it.
Follow the Crowd
It begins with some folks finding a stereotypical bomb on the streets. Soon, Harold is able to find the hideout where the strange cult-like terrorist group operates. Oddly, Bebe Daniels and Snub Pollard are there...though they really don't seem to fit with the rest of the bizarre characters living in this weird place...all of which Harold has to fight during the course of this film.
It\
When the story begins, Harold is told by his girlfriend's mother that he cannot marry Bebe (Bebe Daniels) because he's not rich and successful. So, he follows her on a date with Snub (Snub Pollard) and all sorts of chaos ensues.
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
The Big Idea
The Big Idea (1917) - Short Film
A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.
That\
That's Him (1918) - Short Film
Our newlywed hero is about to embark on his honeymoon when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. In a mad scramble to find them, his bride is led to believe that she has been deserted.
Somewhere in Turkey
Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.
Look Out Below
A story of a love sick youth and a pretty maiden and their adventure, which includes riding around on pieces of steel to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Los Angeles streets.
Peculiar Patients\
In pursuit of a pretty miss,Luke gets admitted to a hospital.
Ça c\
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.