Harold Lloyd: Perbedaan antara revisi

Bersama-sama [[Charlie Chaplin]] dan [[Buster Keaton]], Harold Lloyd termasuk salah satu dari komedian paling berpengaruh dan paling populer dari era [[film bisu]]. Lloyd membuat hampir sekitar 200 film komediakomedi,<ref name="McKee">{{cite news |title=Jim McKee: Harold Lloyd, the Boy with 'The Glasses,' from Burchard |author=Jim McKee |url=http://journalstar.com/lifestyles/misc/jim-mckee-harold-lloyd-the-boy-with-the-glasses-from/article_4b975b2f-5b39-5a9f-bee8-d02a379c245b.html |newspaper=Journal Star |date=2012-7-22 |accessdate=2013-02-24}}</ref> bisu dan bersuara, antara tahun 1914 dan 1947. Dalam film, ia sering memerankan tokoh berkaca mata, pandai, dan mencari kesuksesan, sesuai dengan keadaan Amerika Serikat era tahun 1920-an.

Film-filmnya sering berisi adegan tegang, seperti adegan kejar-kejaran mobil, dan atraksi berbahaya yang membuatnya masih diingat sekarang ini. Lloyd melakukan sendiri adegan bergantungan pada jarum jam dalam adegan film ''[[Safety Last!]]'' (1923). Lloyd banyak melakukan atraksi berbahaya tanpa peran pengganti dan jaring pengaman,<ref name="McKee" /> meski sudah mencederai diri sendiri pada Agustus 1919 ketika membuat film publisitas untuk studio Roach. SebuahIa menyalakan sebatang rokok dengan bom properti film yang disangkanyaternyata sebagaiadalah sebuahbahan propertipeledak sebenarnya. Peristiwa itu menyebabkan dirinyaLlyod kehilangan ibu jari dan telunjuk tangan kanan.<ref>An American Comedy; Lloyd and Stout; 1928; page 129</ref> (cederaKecacatan itu ditutupiditutupinya pada film dengan sarung tangan [[prostesis]]. Meskipun demikian, meskiLlyod sarungselalu tanganmemasukkan ituke kadangdalam jelassakunya terlihat)dan menghindarinya dari dari sorotan kamera.<ref name="McKee" />

Lloyd meninggal dunia pada usia 77 tahun akibat [[kanker prostat]] pada 8 Maret 1971 di [[Beverly Hills]], [[California]].<ref name=time1>{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Died |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904932,00.html |quote=Harold Lloyd, 77, comedian whose screen image of horn-rimmed incompetence made him Hollywood's highest-paid star in the 1920s; of cancer; in Hollywood. He usually played a feckless Mr. Average who triumphed over misfortune. "My character represented the white-collar middle class that felt frustrated but was always fighting to overcome its shortcomings," he once explained. Lloyd usually did his own stunt work, as in Safety Last (1923), in which he dangled from a clock high above the street; he was protected only by a wooden platform two floors below. |publisher=[[Time (magazine)]] |date=March 22, 1971 |accessdate=2008-06-08 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Harold Lloyd, Bespectacled Film Comic, Dies of Cancer at 77 |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/601315582.html |quote=Comedian Harold Lloyd, 77, who bumbled through more than 300 films as a bespectacled victim of life's difficulties, died of cancer Monday at his Beverly Hills home. |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 9, 1971 |accessdate=2008-06-08 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first= Murray|last= Illson|authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Horn-Rims His Trademark; Harold Lloyd, Screen Comedian, Dies at 77 |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A14F93A55127B93CBA91788D85F458785F9 |quote=A pair of inexpensive, horn-rimmed eyeglass frames without lenses, the shy expression of a somewhat bewildered adolescent and a single-track ambition made Harold Clayton Lloyd the highest-paid screen actor in Hollywood's golden age of the nineteen twenties. |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=March 9, 1971 |accessdate=2008-06-08 }}</ref> Ia dimakamkan di sebuah kriptus di Great Mausoleum, [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Pemakaman Forest Lawn Memorial Park]], [[Glendale, California]].