Harold Lloyd

    Harold Lloyd

    April 18, 1893 (131 years old) in Burchard, Nebraska, USA

    Harold Lloyd has been called the cinemaโ€™s โ€œfirst man in space.โ€ His comedy wasnโ€™t imported from Vaudeville or the British Music Hall like his contemporaries, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Harold learned to use the camera the way other comics used a bowler hat or a funny walk. In 1917 he shed the comedic clown personas prevalent in comedy for hundreds of years and pioneered romantic comedy by the ordinary guy up on the screen โ€“- a guy with faults, and fears, โ€œthe boy next door.โ€ With his young man in horned-rimmed glasses, he created classic films.

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