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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

132

Gender

Male

Birthday

1886-02-02

Day of Death

1960-08-10 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Also Known As

Frank William George Lloyd

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

The Spy

1914

The Spy

as

Jake Parsons

The Test

1914

The Test

as

The Rich Man

The Black Box

1915

The Black Box

as

Ian MacDougal

One of the Bravest

1914

One of the Bravest

as

Jim Mack

The Stronger Love

1916

The Stronger Love

as

Tom Serviss

Production

Crew

Directing

Hoopla

1933

Hoopla

as

Cavalcade

1933

Cavalcade

as

Drag

1929

Drag

as

The Lash

1930

The Lash

as

True Blue

1918

True Blue

as

Madame X

1920

Madame X

as

Adoration

1928

Adoration

as