Frank Lloyd
February 2, 1886 (138 years old) in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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.
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- 1920 ยทWest Is Bestas
- 1916 ยทThe Stronger Loveas Tom Serviss
- 1915 ยทThe Black Boxas Ian MacDougal
- 1914 ยทThe Spyas Jake Parsons
- 1914 ยทThe Testas The Rich Man
- 1914 ยทOne of the Bravestas Jim Mack