Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd

Born: February 2, 1886
Died: August 10, 1960
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.

Movies for Frank Lloyd...

West Is Best
Title: West Is Best
Released: January 17, 1920
Type: Movie
Josephine is called to her Western home from an Eastern college and brings a party of girls with her, accompanied by one man.
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The Stronger Love
Title: The Stronger Love
Character: Tom Serviss
Released: August 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Nell, a beautiful mountain girl, is a member of the Serviss family, rivals of the neighboring Rutherford family. Nell is engaged to Jim Serviss, who is the head of their clan, but when, by accident, she meets a stranger who has come to stay with the Rutherfords, they become infatuated.
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The Black Box
Title: The Black Box
Character: Ian MacDougal
Released: March 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Science fiction serial, presumed lost.
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The Spy
Title: The Spy
Character: Jake Parsons
Released: June 1, 1914
Type: Movie
An American agent exchanges places in prison with a condemned British officer and brother of a woman he greatly admires and goes to the gallows.
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The Test
Title: The Test
Character: The Rich Man
Released: April 15, 1914
Type: Movie
The poor man, professing love for his family, drinks what he presumes to be poison in order to make a thousand dollars for them, but the drink proves to be harmless.
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One of the Bravest
Title: One of the Bravest
Character: Jim Mack
Released: January 27, 1914
Type: Movie
A romantic drama about love and jealousy. Two firefighters want the same girl. She almost gets married to Harry, but John sneakily keeps her from doing so, and then marries her himself. After a year, he has started drinking and has lost his job, and his wife has to go to work at the factory. When a fire breaks out there, he rescues her, but loses his own life in the process.