The earliest photograph of
Harold Lloyd.

The house in Nebraska where Harold was born.

Harold Clayton Lloyd was born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA, on April 20, 1893, the second son to James Darsie Lloyd and Elizabeth Fraser.

During his childhood, he lived, at various times, in the towns of Pawnee City, Humboldt, Beatrice and Omaha, Nebraska, and Fort Collins, Durango and Denver, Colorado. The reason for this nomadic existence was his father's difficulty in keeping a job; it was this inconsistency that led Elizabeth to divorce her husband, nicknamed "Foxy," in 1910.

The two boys (elder brother Gaylord was born in 1888, and died in 1943) shuffled between mother and father for a time, before making permanent home with Foxy.

The glasses.

Harold with his father,"Foxy".

Lloyd married his leading lady, Mildred Davis, on February 10, 1923, and together they raised three children. Gloria, born in 1923, still lives in California. Peggy, adopted in 1930, died in 1986. Harold, Jr., born in 1931, died three months after his father in 1971. The Lloyd family lived in Beverly Hills at Greenacres, their spectacular sixteen-acre estate

In 1962, Lloyd released the first of two compilation films, entitled Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy, which re-introduced his beloved Glasses Character to new generations. At this time, as well, he began touring colleges and high schools, showing his films to young audiences, who marvelled at his comic antics. This brought Lloyd a great deal of joy in his later years.

Mildred Davis, Lloyd's wife of forty-six years, died on August 18, 1969, at 68. The next year, Lloyd was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and underwent surgery and cobalt treatments.

Harold Lloyd's final public appearance found him in London, at the Cinema City Exhibition celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of film. He showed his classic, The Kid Brother, to the cheers of appreciative audiences, who did not know how sick he really was.

Harold Clayton Lloyd died, at home at
Greenacres, on March 8, 1971, at 77.

The start of a family.

How to propose marriage Harold Lloyd style in quick time.

Harold's wispy signature, hands, feet and glasses in the pavement.