Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd
Born	Frank William George Lloyd[1] 2 February 1886 Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Died	10 August 1960 (aged 74) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Occupation	film director, scriptwriter and producer
Years active	1915-1955

Frank William George Lloyd (2 February 1886 – 10 August 1960) was an American film director, scriptwriter and producer. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,^[2] and was its president from 1934-35.

Lloyd was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His mother Jane was Scottish and his father Edmund was Welsh.^[1] He is 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 Noël Coward's Cavalcade and received a further Best Director nomination in 1935 for perhaps his most successful film, Mutiny on the Bounty.

Honors

Lloyd was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Directing, for Weary River (1929), The Divine Lady (1929), Drag (1929), Cavalcade (1933), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). He won for The Divine Lady and Cavalcade.

In 1957 he was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.^[3]

On February 8, 1960, Lloyd received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard.^[4][5]

Personal life

Lloyd was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.^[6]

Selected filmography

• The Black Box (1915)
• The Tongues of Men (1916)
• The Code of Marcia Gray (1916)
• The Intrigue (1916)
• David Garrick (1916)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1917)
• The Rainbow Trail (1918)
• The Loves of Letty (1919)
• Madame X (1920)
• The Invisible Power (1921)
• Oliver Twist (1922)
• Black Oxen (1923)
• The Sea Hawk (1924)
• The Silent Watcher (1924)
• Her Husband's Secret (1925)
• The Eagle of the Sea (1926)
• Children of Divorce (1927)
• The Divine Lady (1929)
• Young Nowheres (1929)
• Weary River (1929)
• Drag (1929)
• The Lash (1930)
• Cavalcade (1933)
• The Age for Love (1931)
• Hoop-La (1933)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• Under Two Flags (1936)
• Wells Fargo (1937)
• Maid of Salem (1937)
• If I Were King (1938)
• Rulers of the Sea (1939)
• The Howards of Virginia (1940)
• This Woman is Mine (1941)
• The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
• The Spoilers (1942)
• Forever and a Day (1943)
• Blood on the Sun (1945)
• The Shanghai Story (1954)
• The Last Command (1955)

References

2. Pawlak, Debra. "The Story of the First Academy Awards". The Mediadrome. Retrieved 23 April 2007.
3. The George Eastman Award
4. "Frank Lloyd | Hollywood Walk of Fame". www.walkoffame.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
5. "Frank Lloyd". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
6. Frank r Loyd at Find a Grave

External links

• Frank Lloyd at the Internet Movie Database
• Frank Lloyd Films website, includes additional biographical information