Harold Lloyd filmography
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These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an American actor and filmmaker, most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies.
Most of these films are known to survive in various film archives around the world. Some are also available on DVD or Blu-ray. The negatives of many of Lloyd's early short films were lost in a fire at his estate in 1943. He carefully preserved his feature films, and they remain in excellent condition.
All of the films are listed in order of release date.
Early films
1913
- The Old Monk's Tale (1913) (uncredited debut)
- The Twelfth Juror (1913) (uncredited)
- Cupid in a Dental Parlor (1913) (unconfirmed)
- Hulda of Holland (1913) (uncredited)
- His Chum the Baron (1913) (unconfirmed)
- A Little Hero (1913) (uncredited)
- Rory o' the Bogs (1913) (uncredited)
1914
- Twixt Love and Fire (1914) – also starring Fatty Arbuckle
- Sealed Orders (1914) (unconfirmed)
- Samson (1914) (uncredited)
- The Sandhill Lovers (1914) (as Hal Lloyd)
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) (uncredited)
1915
- Beyond His Fondest Hopes (1915)
- Pete, the Pedal Polisher (1915)
- Close-Cropped Clippings (1915)
- Hogan's Romance Upset (1915) (uncredited)
- Willie Runs the Park (1915)
- Just Nuts (1915) – as Willie Work
- Love, Loot and Crash (1915) (uncredited)
- Their Social Splash (1915)
- Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers (1915) - also starring Fatty Arbuckle
- From Italy's Shores (1915)
- Court House Crooks, or Courthouse Crooks (1915) – as Young Man Out of Work (uncredited)
- The Hungry Actors (1915)
- The Greater Courage (1915)
- A Submarine Pirate (1915) – as Cook
Lonesome Luke
1915
- Spit-Ball Sadie (1915)
- Terribly Stuck Up (1915)
- A Mixup for Mazie (1915)
- Some Baby (1915)
- Fresh from the Farm (1915)
- Giving Them Fits (1915)
- Bughouse Bellhops (1915)
- Tinkering with Trouble (1915)
- Great While It Lasted (1915)
- Ragtime Snap Shots (1915)
- A Foozle at the Tee Party (1915)
- Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks (1915)
- Peculiar Patients' Pranks (1915)
- Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster (1915)
1916
- Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary (1916)
- Luke Lugs Luggage (1916)
- Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury (1916)
- Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (1916)
- Luke Foils the Villain (1916)
- Luke and the Rural Roughnecks (1916)
- Luke Pipes the Pippins (1916)
- Lonesome Luke, Circus King (1916)
- Luke's Double (1916)
- Them Was the Happy Days! (1916)
- Luke and the Bomb Throwers (1916)
- Luke's Late Lunchers (1916)
- Luke Laughs Last (1916)
- Luke's Fatal Flivver (1916)
- Luke's Society Mixup (1916)
- Luke's Washful Waiting (1916)
- Luke Rides Roughshod (1916)
- Luke, Crystal Gazer (1916)
- Luke's Lost Lamb (1916)
- Luke Does the Midway (1916)
- Luke Joins the Navy (1916)
- Luke and the Mermaids (1916)
- Luke's Speedy Club Life (1916)
- Luke and the Bang-Tails, or Luke and the Bangtails (1916)
- Luke, the Chauffeur (1916)
- Luke's Preparedness Preparations (1916)
- Luke, the Gladiator (1916)
- Luke, Patient Provider (1916)
- Luke's Newsie Knockout (1916)
- Luke's Movie Muddle, also known as The Cinema Director (1916)
- Luke, Rank Impersonator (1916)
- Luke's Fireworks Fizzle (1916)
- Luke Locates the Loot (1916)
- Luke's Shattered Sleep (1916)
1917
- Lonesome Luke's Lovely Rifle (1917)
- Luke's Lost Liberty (1917)
- Luke's Busy Day (1917)
- Luke's Trolley Troubles (1917)
- Lonesome Luke, Lawyer (1917)
- Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire (1917)
- Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (1917)
- Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley (1917)
- Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon (1917)
- Lonesome Luke, Plumber (1917)
- Stop! Luke! Listen! (1917)
- Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917)
- Lonesome Luke, Mechanic (1917)
- Lonesome Luke's Wild Women (1917)
- Lonesome Luke Loses Patients (1917)
- Birds of a Feather (1917)
- From Laramie to London (1917)
- Love, Laughs and Lather (1917)
- Clubs Are Trump (1917)
- We Never Sleep (1917)
Glasses character ("The Boy")
1917
- Over the Fence (1917)
- Pinched (1917)
- By the Sad Sea Waves (1917)
- Bliss (1917)
- Rainbow Island (1917)
- The Flirt (1917)
- All Aboard (1917)
- Move On (1917)
- Bashful (1917)
- Step Lively (1917)
- The Big Idea (1917)
1918
- The Tip (1918)
- The Lamb (1918)
- Hit Him Again (1918)
- Beat It (1918)
- A Gasoline Wedding (1918)
- Look Pleasant, Please (1918)
- Here Come the Girls (1918)
- Let's Go (1918)
- On the Jump (1918)
- Follow the Crowd (1918)
- Pipe the Whiskers (1918), as Janitor
- It's a Wild Life (1918)
- Hey There! (1918)
- Kicked Out (1918)
- The Non-Stop Kid (1918)
- Two-Gun Gussie (1918)
- Fireman Save My Child (1918)
- The City Slicker (1918)
- Sic 'Em, Towser (1918)
- Somewhere in Turkey (1918)
- Are Crooks Dishonest? – sometimes wrongly titled as Doing, Doing, Done (1918)
- An Ozark Romance (1918)
- Kicking the Germ Out of Germany (1918)
- That's Him (1918)
- Bride and Gloom (1918)
- Two Scrambled (1918)
- Bees in His Bonnet (1918)
- Swing Your Partners (1918)
- Why Pick on Me? (1918)
- Nothing but Trouble (1918)
- Back to the Woods (1918)
- Hear 'Em Rave (1918)
- Take a Chance (1918)
- She Loves Me Not (1918)
1919
- Wanted – $5,000 (1919)
- Going! Going! Gone! (1919)
- Ask Father (1919)
- On the Fire, aka. The Chef (1919)
- I'm on My Way (1919)
- Look Out Below (1919)
- The Dutiful Dub (1919)
- Next Aisle Over (1919)
- A Sammy in Siberia (1919)
- Just Dropped In (1919)
- Young Mr. Jazz (1919)
- Crack Your Heels (1919)
- Ring Up the Curtain, aka Back-Stage! (1919)
- Si, Senor (1919)
- Before Breakfast (1919)
- The Marathon (1919)
- Pistols for Breakfast (1919)
- Swat the Crook (1919)
- Off the Trolley (1919)
- Spring Fever (1919)
- Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919) – as Billy Blazes; the film was a parody of Westerns of the time
- Just Neighbors (1919)
- At the Old Stage Door (1919)
- Never Touched Me (1919)
- A Jazzed Honeymoon (1919)
- Count Your Change (1919)
- Chop Suey & Co. (1919)
- Heap Big Chief (1919)
- Don't Shove (1919)
- Be My Wife (1919)
- The Rajah (1919)
- He Leads, Others Follow (1919)
- Soft Money (1919)
- Count the Votes (1919)
- Pay Your Dues (1919)
- His Only Father (1919)
- Bumping Into Broadway (1919)
- Captain Kidd's Kids (1919)
- From Hand to Mouth (1919)
1920s
- His Royal Slyness (1920)
- Haunted Spooks (1920)
- An Eastern Westerner (1920)
- High and Dizzy (1920)
- Get Out and Get Under, aka My Beautiful Automobile (1920)
- Number, Please? (1920)
- Now or Never (1921)
- Among Those Present (1921)
- I Do (1921)
- Never Weaken (1921)
Later shorts
- Dogs of War (1923), an Our Gang comedy filmed alongside the feature film Why Worry?. Lloyd played himself.
Feature-length films
Lloyd starred in a total of 18 feature-length motion pictures, consisting of 11 silent and 7 sound films. Lloyd also re-edited his material into 2 compilation features.
Silent features
| No. | Title | Release date | Length | Director(s) | Character name | Character type | Leading lady | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Sailor-Made Man | December 25, 1921 | 3846 ft. | Fred Newmeyer | The Boy | Rich Idler | Mildred Davis | Must prove worthy of girl, joins navy, rescues her from a maharajah in Middle Eastern city. Frenetic, like early short Films. |
| 2 | Grandma's Boy | September 3, 1922 | 4841 ft. | Fred Newmeyer | The Boy (Sonny / Harold) | Meek Country Boy Granddaddy |
Mildred Davis | Cowardly country boy gains courage from magic charm; Civil War flashback; delicate characterization. Lloyd's favorite film. |
| 3 | Dr. Jack | November 23, 1922 | 4700 ft. | Fred Newmeyer | Dr. Jackson (Jack) | Successful Country Doctor | Mildred Davis | Small-town country doctor uses common sense to cure patients. |
| 4 | Safety Last! | April 1, 1923 | 6300 ft. | Fred Newmeyer Sam Taylor |
Harold Lloyd | Industrious Go-Getter | Mildred Davis | Country boy goes to city to be a success, ends up climbing building as stunt. Most spectacular daredevil thrill comedy. Last film with Davis, whom he married. |
| 5 | Why Worry? | September 16, 1923 | 5500 ft. | Fred Newmeyer Sam Taylor |
Harold Van Pelham | Wealthy Hypocondriac | Jobyna Ralston | Hypochondriac goes to South America for rest, lands in revolution. Funniest for sheer number of gags. Last Lloyd film produced by Hal Roach. |
| 6 | Girl Shy | March 28, 1924 | 7457 ft. | Fred Newmeyer Sam Taylor |
The Poor Boy (Harold Meadows) | Shy Dreamer | Jobyna Ralston | Shy stutterer writes book on lovemaking; must rescue girl from marrying wrong man. Terrific race sequence at end. |
| 7 | Hot Water | November 2, 1924 | 4899 ft. | Sam Taylor Fred Newmeyer |
Hubby | Hen-Pecked Husband | Jobyna Ralston | Family situation comedy; episodic; live turkey on trolley, madcap car ride, hi haunted-house finale. |
| 8 | The Freshman | September 30, 1925 | 6883 ft. | Sam Taylor Fred Newmeyer |
Harold Lamb | College Go-Getter | Jobyna Ralston | Popularity-conscious student tries to be "Big Man on Campus"; finally wins big football game and girl. Best topical satire. |
| 9 | For Heaven's Sake | April 5, 1926 | 5356 ft. | Sam Taylor | The Updown Boy (J. Harold Mannors) | Debonaire Millionaire | Jobyna Ralston | Rich man aids slum mission; must get drunks to wedding on time. |
| 10 | The Kid Brother | January 17, 1927 | 7654 ft. | Lewis Milestone Ted Wilde |
Harold Hickory | Bashful Farm Boy | Jobyna Ralston | Son of sheriff must prove his manhood; captures crook, returns stolen money, wins girl. Best integration of all Lloyd's key elements. |
| 11 | Speedy | April 7, 1928 | 7776 ft. | Ted Wilde | Harold "Speedy" Swift | Carefree City Boy | Ann Christy | Baseball-crazed city boy can't keep job, upsets mobsters' plans to ruin old man's business. New York location; Babe Ruth appearance; great chase. |
Sound features
| No. | Title | Release date | Length | Director(s) | Character name | Character type | Leading lady | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome Danger | October 12, 1929 | 10297 ft. 115 min. |
Mal St. Clair Clyde Bruckman |
Harold Bledsoe | Industrious Detective | Barbara Kent | Botanist-turned-sleuth thwarts Chinese hoods in San Francisco. Lloyd's first talkie; a bit crude but interesting. |
| 2 | Feet First | November 8, 1930 | 8130 ft. 90 min. |
Clyde Bruckman | Harold Horne | Ambitious Fumbler | Barbara Kent | Shoe salesman pretends to be successful businessman. Gags on boat; big-thrill building climb at end. Episodic. |
| 3 | Movie Crazy | September 23, 1932 | 8852 ft. 98 min. |
Clyde Bruckman | Harold Hall | Meek Fumbler | Constance Cummings | Boy tries to make good in Hollywood. Some good gags and action; complex love interest. |
| 4 | The Cat's-Paw | August 7, 1934 | 9157 ft. 102 min. |
Sam Taylor | Ezekiel Cobb | Missionary turned Reformer | Una Merkel Grace Bradley |
Accidentally elected mayor, naive reformer takes brunt of political machine. Oriental setting, strange political overtones. |
| 5 | The Milky Way | March 25, 1936 | 8010 ft. 89 min. |
Leo McCarey | Burleigh Sullivan | Milkman turned Prizefighter | Verree Teasdale Helen Mack Dorothy Wilson |
Quick-paced verbal comedy with top supporting cast. Fixed fights send weakling to championship fight. Best Lloyd talkie. |
| 6 | Professor Beware | July 29, 1938 | 8550 ft. 93 min. |
Elliott Nugent | Prof. Dean Lambert | Fumbling Professor | Phyllis Welch | Egyptologist searches for missing tablets. |
| 7 | The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (original release title) |
April 4, 1947 | 8010 ft. 89 min. |
Preston Sturges | Harold Diddlebock | Clerk turned Promotor | Frances Ramsden | Man's first drink changes him into live wire; thrill on high building again. Recut by Howard Hughes. |
| Mad Wednesday {re-issue title) |
October 28, 1950 | 6930 ft. 76 min. |
Compilations
| No. | Title | Release date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy | 1962 | An anthology of comedy sequences, mostly from Safety Last, The Freshman, Hot Water, Why Worry?, Girl Shy, Professor Beware, Movie Crazy, and Feet First. |
| 2 | The Funny Side of Life | 1963 | Another compilation, produced and edited by Lloyd. Not generally distributed in the United States. |
As producer only
Harold Lloyd also produced, but did not star in, two feature films.
Harold Lloyd's feature films (CC-BY-SA)| No. | Title | Release date | Director(s) | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | 1941 | Richard Jones | Lucille Ball, George Murphy, Edmund O'Brien, and Franklin Pangborn |
| 2 | My Favorite Spy | 1942 | Norman Z. McLeod | Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman, Robert Armstrong, and William Demerest |
See also
References
- Harold Lloyd at the Internet Movie Database
- Reilly, Adam (1977). Harold Lloyd – "The King of Daredevil Comedy". New York: Collier Books.
- Schickel, Richard (1974). Harold Lloyd – The Shape of Laughter. Boston: New York Graphic Society.
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