Frank Lloyd

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

1.1343

Gender

Male

Birthday

02-Feb-1886

Age

(140 years old)

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Also Known As
  • Frank William George Lloyd

Frank Lloyd

Biography

Frank Lloyd was a film director, scriptwriter and producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president from 1934 to 1935. Frank Lloyd was Scotland's first Academy Award winner and is unique in film history having received three Oscar nominations in 1929 for his work on a silent film (The Divine Lady), a part-talkie (Weary River) and a full talkie (Drag). He won for The Divine Lady. He was nominated and won again in 1933 for his adaptation of Noel Coward's Cavalcade and received a further Best Director nomination in 1935 for perhaps his most successful film, Mutiny on the Bounty.


Credits

The Opened Shutters The Opened Shutters (1914) Character: Judge Calvin Trent
After being orphaned and rejected by her reluctant relatives, Aunt Martha and Judge Trent, Sylvia Lacey is sent to live at a Maine farm managed by a kind man named Thinkright. While there, she becomes captivated by a deserted, shuttered Tide Mill, believing only love can "open its shutters." Sylvia eventually discovers a passion for painting and falls in love with John Dunham, the Judge’s law partner. Though she initially believes John is engaged to her friend Edna, he eventually confesses his love for her. In the end, John surprises Sylvia by revealing he has purchased the Tide Mill and converted it into a professional art studio for her, fulfilling her metaphor that love would finally open the mill's shutters.
The Test The Test (1914) Character: The Rich Man
The poor man, professing love for his family, drinks what he presumes to be poison in order to make a thousand dollars for them, but the drink proves to be harmless.
West Is Best West Is Best (1920) Character: N/A
Josephine is called to her Western home from an Eastern college and brings a party of girls with her, accompanied by one man.
One of the Bravest One of the Bravest (1914) Character: Jim Mack
A romantic drama about love and jealousy. Two firefighters want the same girl. She almost gets married to Harry, but John sneakily keeps her from doing so, and then marries her himself. After a year, he has started drinking and has lost his job, and his wife has to go to work at the factory. When a fire breaks out there, he rescues her, but loses his own life in the process.
The Black Box The Black Box (1915) Character: Ian MacDougal
Science fiction serial, presumed lost.
The Stronger Love The Stronger Love (1916) Character: Tom Serviss
Nell, a beautiful mountain girl, is a member of the Serviss family, rivals of the neighboring Rutherford family. Nell is engaged to Jim Serviss, who is the head of their clan, but when, by accident, she meets a stranger who has come to stay with the Rutherfords, they become infatuated.
The Spy The Spy (1914) Character: Jake Parsons
An American agent exchanges places in prison with a condemned British officer and brother of a woman he greatly admires and goes to the gallows.



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