Harold Lloyd ranks alongside
Charlie Chaplin and
Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the
silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America.
His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and
daredevil physical feats, for which he is best remembered today. The image of Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in
Safety Last! (1923) is one of the most enduring images in all of cinema. Lloyd did many of these dangerous
stunts himself, despite having injured himself during the filming of
Haunted Spooks (1920) when an accident with a prop bomb resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on film with the use of a special
prosthetic glove). -
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