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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1886-02-02 (139 years old)

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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.

Known For

Acting

1920

1916

The Stronger Love as Tom Serviss

1915

The Black Box as Ian MacDougal

1914

The Spy as Jake Parsons
The Test as The Rich Man
One of the Bravest as Jim Mack

Directing

1955

The Last Command as Director

1954

The Shanghai Story as Director

1945

Blood on the Sun as Director
The Last Bomb as Director

1943

Forever and a Day as Director

1941

This Woman Is Mine as Director

1940

1939

Rulers of the Sea as Director

1938

If I Were King as Director

1937

Maid of Salem as Director
Wells Fargo as Director

1936

Under Two Flags as Director

1935

1934

Servants' Entrance as Director

1933

Hoopla as Director
Cavalcade as Director
Berkeley Square as Director

1932

A Passport to Hell as Director

1931

East Lynne as Director
The Age for Love as Director

1930

Son of the Gods as Director
The Lash as Director
The Right of Way as Director
The Way of All Men as Director

1929

Drag as Director
Weary River as Director
Young Nowheres as Director
Dark Streets as Director

1928

The Divine Lady as Director
Adoration as Director

1927

1926

The Wise Guy as Director

1925

The Splendid Road as Director
Winds of Chance as Director

1924

The Sea Hawk as Director
The Silent Watcher as Director

1923

Within the Law as Director
Black Oxen as Director
Ashes of Vengeance as Director

1922

Oliver Twist as Director
The Sin Flood as Director
The Eternal Flame as Director
Sherlock Brown as Director

1921

The Grim Comedian as Director

1920

The Great Lover as Director
Madame X as Director
The Silver Horde as Director

1918

His Extra Bit as Director
True Blue as Director
The Rainbow Trail as Director

1917

Les Misérables as Director
American Methods as Director

Production

1955

The Last Command as Associate Producer

1954

The Shanghai Story as Associate Producer

1942

Saboteur as Producer
Invisible Agent as Producer
The Spoilers as Producer

1941

This Woman Is Mine as Producer

1940

1939

Rulers of the Sea as Producer

1938

If I Were King as Producer

1937

Maid of Salem as Producer
Wells Fargo as Producer

1935

1933

Cavalcade as Producer

1931

The Age for Love as Producer

1930

The Lash as Producer

1929

Weary River as Producer

Writing

1931

The Age for Love as Adaptation

1923

Black Oxen as Writer
Ashes of Vengeance as Adaptation

1920

Madame X as Writer

1918

True Blue as Screenplay
True Blue as Story
The Rainbow Trail as Scenario Writer

1917

Les Misérables as Scenario Writer
When a Man Sees Red as Scenario Writer
A Tale of Two Cities as Screenplay

1915

The Gentleman from Indiana as Scenario Writer