Harold LloydFilmography

The Hollywood Clowns

Harold Lloyd's Funny Side of Life

Actors: Harold Lloyd

Synopsis: Comedy legend Harold Lloyd personally selected highlights of his silent film career, including The Freshman, for this compilation that appeared at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City. Informative narration and sound effects are added unobtrusively for this feature that reminds everyone that Read More

Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy is a compilation film of the famed silent-comedy star's funniest screen scenes, lovingly assembled by Harold Lloyd himself. The film spotlights choice moments from such Lloyd silent features as Safety Last (1923), Why Worry (1923), Hot Water (1924), Girl Shy (1924) Read More

Days of Thrills and Laughter

Synopsis: This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film (The Golden Age of Comedy and When Comedy Was King directly preceded this release). As in its predecessors, this compilation looks back on the more distant past. Renowned Read More

This is Your Life: Bebe Daniels

Clown Princes of Hollywood

Synopsis: This documentary video offers a variety of clips from the silent screen's funniest men. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Actors: Al Bridge, Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Raymond Walburn, Georgia Caine, Jimmy Conlin, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Hamilton, Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis: Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite Harold Lloyd returned before the cameras in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. The project began as a labor of love between Lloyd and the brilliant, innovative producer/writer/director Preston Sturges Read More

My Favorite Spy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman, Robert Armstrong, Helen Westley

Synopsis: Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who resembles Lloyd more than somewhat. Just before embarking on his honeymoon with new bride Terry (Ellen Drew), Kyser is drafted into the Army. Proving to be a monumentally Read More

A Girl, a Guy and A Gob

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Murphy, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Travers, Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis: The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick (Edmond O'Brien); and the gob is a brash sailor known as Coffee Cup (George Murphy). Not surprisingly, the plot involves the efforts by the self-effacing Stephen and the Read More

Professor Beware

Crew: Producer

Actors: Phyllis Welch, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, William Frawley

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse. Lloyd has the opportunity to join an archeological expedition to search for a missing tablet that will determine his fate, but he has to travel from Los Angeles to New York Read More

The Milky Way

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Veree Teasdale, Helen Mack, William Gargan

Synopsis: One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The Milky Way was based on the Broadway play by Lynn Root and Harry Clork. Lloyd plays Burleigh Sullivan, a mild-mannered milkman who intercedes one night when his sister Mae (Helen Mack Read More

The Cat's Paw

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Nat Pendleton, Grace Bradley

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home church in California, where it is hoped he will find a wife. A true babe in the woods, Cobb is befriended by politician Jake Mayo (George Barbier). Mayo is a cog in a Read More

Movie Crazy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Ken Thomson, Sidney Jarvis

Synopsis: Movie Crazy was Harold Lloyd's best-received sound film. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic aspiring movie star who exchanges the quiet life in his sleepy Kansas hometown for the glamour and excitement of Tinseltown where he mistakenly believes he has been selected for a Read More

Feet First

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Robert McWade, Lillian Leighton, Barbara Kent, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd's second talkie finds The Bespectacled One playing a shoe clerk in Honolulu. Harboring dreams of becoming an executive, Lloyd passes himself off as a millionaire to heiress Barbara Kent. As the plot merrily rolls along, Harold stows away on a ship bound for the mainland, and ends up Read More

Welcome Danger

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Noah Young, Charles B. Middleton

Synopsis: This comedy classic is the sound-film debut of enormously popular and brilliant silent comedian Harold Lloyd. He plays a gentle botany student who must reluctantly succeed his father as chief of police. He does a good job and ends up busting up a ring of drug dealers led by the enigmatic "Dragon." Read More

Speedy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Brooks Benedict

Synopsis: This was comedian Harold Lloyd's last silent film, and one of his most charming. Lloyd's character here is called Harold "Speedy" Swift, an upbeat young man whose fatal attraction for baseball always causes him to lose his jobs. After his latest firing, he impulsively spends a day at Coney Island Read More

The Kid Brother

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis

Synopsis: Even taking into consideration such worthy candidates as Safety Last and The Freshman, many Harold Lloyd fans regard The Kid Brother as his finest film. A humorous variation on Tol'able David, the film stars Lloyd as Harold Hickory, the youngest member of the rural Hickory family. Though Read More

For Heaven's Sake

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young, Paul Weigel

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd plays a wealthy young spendthrift who is upset that his name is being used to bring parishioners into a storefront mission in the poorer part of town. He heads to the mission to have it out with the minister, only to fall in love with minister's daughter Jobyna Ralston. Realizing that Read More

The Freshman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict, James Anderson, Hazel Keener

Synopsis: One of Harold Lloyd's best feature-length comedies, The Freshman, features the bespectacled regular guy as Harold Lamb, a naïve young man who heads off to college believing campus life will be just as it is in the movies; he even learns a little dance he saw one of his favorite actors do in a Read More

Girl Shy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels

Synopsis: In this riotous silent comedy, hilarious bespectacled "everyman" Harold Lloyd plays an introverted, speech-impaired, awkward tailor's assistant who secretly writes a book, The Secrets of Making Love and decides to leave his small-town home to get it published in the big city. While aboard the Read More

Hot Water

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Josephine Crowell, Charles E. Stevenson

Synopsis: On his friend's wedding day, disgusted best man Harold Lloyd swears that "I will never give up my freedom for a pair of soft-boiled eyes!" When he (literally) trips over a pretty young girl (Jobyna Ralston), he immediately forgets his words. In the time it takes to read a title card, they are Read More

Dogs of War

Actors: Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Farina Hoskins, Joe Cobb, Ernest Morrison

Synopsis: Originally released on July 1, 1923, the silent, two-reel Dogs of War may well have been the most schizophrenic entry in the entire Our Gang series. The film begins with an elaborate sandlot recreation of a battlefield, with the Our Gang kids staging an elaborate mock war, complete with such Read More

Why Worry?

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Leo White

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd plays a millionaire who suffers from imaginary illness in this memorable comedy. With the help of a beautiful nurse (Jobyna Ralston) and valet Mr. Phipps (Wallace Howe), he travels to South America to regain his health. Harold arrives during a political uprising and believes the rival Read More

Safety Last

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, W.B. Clarke

Synopsis: After Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the silent film era's "third genius" was Harold Lloyd, who stars in this Horatio Alger-style story of an average country boy trying to make good in the big city. The Boy (Lloyd) leaves his sweetheart, The Girl (Mildred Davis, later the real-life Mrs. Lloyd) Read More

Grandma's Boy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Mrs. Anna Townsend, Charles E. Stevenson, Dick Sutherland

Synopsis: This rollicking comedy is Harold Lloyd's second feature film and like the first, A Sailor-Made Man was originally conceived of as a short film. During the shooting, Lloyd and long-time collaborator Hal Roach insisted on continually developing his character and moving beyond pure gags into a real Read More

Doctor Jack

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, John T. Prince, Eric Mayne, C. Norman Hammond

Synopsis: Because it was sandwiched between the exceptional comedies Grandma's Boy and Safety Last, Doctor Jack is one of Harold Lloyd's lesser-known features. Nevertheless, it's quite charming and actually did even better at the box office than Grandma's Boy, which was Lloyd's first true feature. Doctor Read More

I Do

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis play a young married couple (two years later, they became a real-life married couple). So far, all they know about parenthood is how to sneak bootleg liquor home in a baby carriage. That changes quickly when the girl's brother (Noah Young) leaves them with his two Read More

Never Weaken

Synopsis: Although he didn't realize it at the time, this was Harold Lloyd's last two-reeler (the next film, A Sailor-Made Man, would start off as a tworeeler but grow into four). It begins as an office romance, with Harold in love with a girl (Mildred Davis) who works next door to his place of employment. Read More

Now or Never

Synopsis: This Harold Lloyd three-reeler is one of his best short subjects, in good part because of the interplay between him and child actress Anna May Bilson. Bilson almost steals the show as Dolly, the lonesome little girl who begs to go with her babysitter Mary (Mildred Davis) on a short trip. Mary is Read More

Among Those Present

Synopsis: By 1921, Harold Lloyd was gradually easing into full-length comedies. This was his second three-reel film; by the end of the year he would release A Sailor-Made Man at four reels and beginning with the film after that, Grandma's Boy, he would completely graduate into features. Here, Lloyd plays a Read More

A Sailor-Made Man

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Dick Sutherland

Synopsis: Although this comedy was hailed as Harold Lloyd's first feature, at four reels, it's really more of a glorified short. It was originally meant to be a two-reeler (the previous film, Never Weaken, was considered an anomaly at three reels), but Lloyd and his crew wound up with too many good gags and Read More

Number, Please

An Eastern Westerner

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd plays a wealthy, spoiled New York City boy in this two-reeler. His parents, fed up with his nightclubbing ways, ship him off to his uncle's ranch in Piute Pass. Harold pulls into the rootin', tootin' town and it isn't long before he has a run-in with bully "Tiger Lip" Thompkins (Noah Young Read More

Get out and Get Under

Haunted Spooks

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis

Synopsis: In order to inherit a mansion, a young girl (Mildred Davis) must live there for a year with her husband. She doesn't have a spouse, though, so her lawyer goes looking for one...and comes up with Harold Lloyd. With that, laughs are guaranteed, especially since the girl's uncle Wallace Howe wants to Read More

High and Dizzy

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd runs afoul of some bootleg hootch in this two-reel comedy. When his friend (Roy Brooks) shows him a little distillery he has hidden away in his office, Harold is fascinated. But while they're admiring one of the bottles, the cork pops out and the liquor begins to run over. The two men Read More

Crack Your Heels

Count Your Change

The Dutiful Dub

From Hand to Mouth

Synopsis: This two-reel Harold Lloyd short introduced Mildred Davis as his new co-star -- she took Bebe Daniels' place; Daniels, an extremely talented comedienne, left to become a star in her own right. This picture has a bit more pathos than Lloyd's normal fare. Davis is a pretty young lady who is about to Read More

A Jazzed Honeymoon

Just Dropped In

He Leads, Others Follow

Heap Big Chief

Count the Votes

Ask Father

Synopsis: There are a huge number of great gags in this Harold Lloyd single-reeler. Lloyd was two-and-a-half years away from making features, but the infinite potential of his "glasses" character is already obvious here. He plays a boy who is in love with a bored, wealthy girl, showering her with dozens of Read More

Back to the Woods

Synopsis: In her fifth film for producer Samuel Goldwyn, elfin comedienne Mabel Normand was cast as bored heiress Stephanie Trent. Unimpressed by the crop of men on the Eastern seaboard, Stephanie heads to a remote forest community, adopting an assumed name and taking a job as the local schoolmarm. Here she Read More

At the Old Stage Door

I'm on My Way

His Royal Slyness

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd stars in this tale of mistaken identity. A industrious young book salesman (Lloyd) switches places with a prince (Gaylord Lloyd, in real life, Harold's brother), who wants to stay in the U.S. The young man is quite unaccustomed to the court protocol, but he warms to the Princess (Mildred Davis Read More

Captain Kidd's Kids

Chop Suey & Co.

Bumping into Broadway

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels are next-door neighbors in a shabby boardinghouse. Harold scrapes together just barely enough money to pay his rent when he runs into Bebe, who is crying in the hallway. Her rent is overdue, so Harold gives her his cash. Harold has to use all his ingenuity to avoid Read More

Before Breakfast

Billy Blazes, Esq.

Soft Money

Swat the Crook

Si, Senor

Ring Up the Curtain

A Sammy in Siberia

Early Cinema Vol. 1

Synopsis: This volume on the history of cinema contains early, short, silent films - mostly before 1920 - including: Melies' Conquest of the North Pole; Linder's Man and the Statue and Max's Mother In Law; Drew's Auntie's Portrait; Normand's Mabel's Dramatic Career; Mix's An Angelic Attitude Sennett and Read More

Don't Shove

Spring Fever

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd plays a dreamy young man in this Hal Roach short. Bebe Daniels (Lloyd's regular leading lady at the time) portrays a girl who is being courted by the unappetizing Snub Pollard. Harold, meanwhile, is at work, but it's spring, the day is beautiful and the office is next to a lovely Read More

Young Mr. Jazz

Going! Going! Gone!

Never Touched Me

Next Aisle Over

The Marathon

Just Neighbors

Look out Below

Pistols for Breakfast

Rajah

Pay Your Dues

Off the Trolley

On the Fire

Take a Chance

Swing Your Partners

Tip

That's Him

She Loves Me Not

Fireman Save My Child

Somewhere in Turkey

Synopsis: Harold Lloyd plays an explorer in this comic short. Bebe Daniels is a shipwreck victim who is snatched up by a group of lusty Turks and taken to the Sultan. But when the Sultan tries to kiss her, she smacks him good and gets tossed in jail for rejecting him. Harold, meanwhile, is wandering around Read More

Sic 'em, Towser

Two Scrambled

The Big Idea

Bride and Gloom

Beat It

Bees in His Bonnet

Why Pick on Me?

Two-Gun Gussie

The City Slicker

Are Crooks Dishonest?

An Ozark Romance

Hit Him Again

On the Jump

Synopsis: In this propaganda film, athletic silent star George Walsh plays reporter Jack Bartlett, who interviews President Wilson (Ralph Faulkner) regarding the Fourth Liberty Loan. The story never appears in the paper, however, because its new owner, Otto Crumley (Henry Clive), is pro-German. So Jack Read More

Kicked Out

It's a Wild Life

Pipe the Whiskers

A Gasoline Wedding

Hey There!

Hear 'em Rave

Nothing But Trouble

Look Pleasant, Please

The Non-Stop Kid

Follow the Crowd

Kicking the Germ out of Germany

Lamb

Let's Go

Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire

Luke's Lost Liberty

Love, Laughs and Lather

Luke's Busy Day

Lonesome Luke, Plumber

Pinched

Rainbow Island

Stop! Luke! Listen!

Over the Fence

Crew: Director

Luke's Trolley Troubles

Move On

We Never Sleep

Lonesome Luke, Messenger

Birds of a Feather

Lonesome Luke's Lively Life

Lonesome Luke's Wild Women

Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon

Lonesome Luke from London to Laramie

Lonesome Luke Loses Patients

Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley

All Aboard

Lonesome Luke, Lawyer

Lonesome Luke, Mechanic

Bashful

Bliss

By the Sad Sea Waves

Luke, Rank Impersonator

Luke, Patient Provider

Luke, Crystal Gazer

Luke, the Candy Cut-Up

Them Was the Happy Days!

Marriage a la Carte

Synopsis: Mildred Niles (Clara Kimball Young) is the daughter of a wealthy broker (E.M. Kimball); Ted Vandeveer (Chester Barnett) is a penniless relative of the wealthy Archie Vandeveers. The two meet and fall in love. Ted's friend, Jim Sweeney (William Jefferson), thinks he should take advantage of the Read More

Luke, the Chauffeur

Luke's Washful Waiting

Luke Joins the Navy

Luke Foils the Villain

Luke Does the Midway

Luke Laughs Last

Luke Pipes the Pippins

Luke Lugs Luggage

Luke Locates the Loot

Luke and the Rural Roughnecks

Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury

Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary

Flirt

Synopsis: The husband/wife directing team of Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley are responsible for this adaptation of Booth Tarkington's story. Cora (Marie Walcamp) is the flirt who is being pursued by all the town's eligible bachelors. But this selfish young woman finally meets her match in Valentine Corliss Read More

Lonesome Luke, Circus King

Luke and the Mermaids

Luke and the Bomb Throwers

Luke and the Bang-Tails

Luke Rides Roughshod

Luke's Lost Lamb

Luke's Late Lunchers

Luke's Speedy Club Life

Luke's Society Mixup

Luke's Shattered Sleep

Luke's Movie Muddle

Luke's Double

Luke's Newsie Knockout

Luke's Fatal Flivver

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

A One Night Stand

Peculiar Patients' Pranks

Ragtime Snap Shots

Once Every Ten Minutes

Some Baby

Great While It Lasted

Giving Them Fits

Fresh from the Farm

Just Nuts

Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster

Lonesome Luke

Bughouse Bellhops