1. Frank William George Lloyd was a Scottish-American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
31 Facts About Frank Lloyd
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Frank Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was its president from 1934 to 1935.
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Frank Lloyd is 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, a part-talkie and a full talkie.
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Frank Lloyd 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.
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In 1960, Lloyd received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry, at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Frank Lloyd was born in Cambuslang, on the outskirts of Glasgow, the youngest of seven children.
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Frank Lloyd worked in a shoe shop, sang in choral groups and joined a vaudeville group.
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Frank Lloyd erected poles and wrote for a telephone company, then joined a travelling show as an actor and singer.
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Frank Lloyd began directing shorts for Paramount and moved to longer running films: The Gentleman from Indiana, Jane, The Reform Candidate, The Tongues of Men, The Call of the Cumberlands, Madame la Presidente with Anna Held, The Code of Marcia Gray, David Garrick, The Making of Maddalena, An International Marriage, and The Stronger Love.
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Frank Lloyd directed Sins of Her Parent at Fox, and The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagles for Tranhouser.
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Frank Lloyd directed some films for First National with Norma Talmadge: The Eternal Flame, The Voice from the Minaret, Within the Law and Ashes of Vengeance.
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Frank Lloyd had his own company at First National, Frank Lloyd Productions.
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At Paramount Frank Lloyd made The Eagle of the Sea, Children of Divorce, Adoration with Billie Dove, The Divine Lady with Corinne Griffith, and Dark Streets.
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Frank Lloyd won the Academy Award for Best director for The Divine Lady.
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Frank Lloyd was Oscar nominated for Best Director for Drag and Weary River.
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For Howard Hughes, Frank Lloyd did The Age for Love.
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Frank Lloyd then made what was his favourite film, Berkeley Square, starring Leslie Howard, followed by Hoop-La the final film of Clara Bow and Servants' Entrance with Janet Gaynor.
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Frank Lloyd had a huge hit with Mutiny on the Bounty at MGM which earned him another Oscar nomination for Best Director.
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Frank Lloyd followed it with Under Two Flags at Fox, a French Foreign Legion tale with Ronald Colman.
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At Paramount Frank Lloyd made more historical films: Maid of Salem with Claudette Colbert, Wells Fargo with Joel McCrea, If I Were King with Colman and Rulers of the Sea with Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, which was a commercial disappointment.
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Frank Lloyd made The Howards of Virginia at Columbia with Cary Grant.
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Frank Lloyd directed This Woman Is Mine, and The Lady from Cheyenne, and his company produced Saboteur from Alfred Hitchcock, The Spoilers with John Wayne and Randolph Scott, and Invisible Agent.
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Frank Lloyd was one of several directors on RKO's Forever and a Day.
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Frank Lloyd had a big hit with James Cagney's Blood on the Sun.
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Frank Lloyd was Oscar nominated for Best Director of a Documentary with The Last Bomb.
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Frank Lloyd retired from filmmaking in 1946, intending to live on a ranch.
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Frank Lloyd's wife died in 1952 and he came out of retirement to make two films at Republic, The Shanghai Story and The Last Command a film about Jim Bowie.
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Frank Lloyd was married to actress Alma Haller from 11 July 1913, until her death on 16 March 1952.
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Frank Lloyd was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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Frank Lloyd did not make waves; he did not overly publicize and promote himself as others did in that day and still do today.
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Frank Lloyd was very well liked and promoted other artists in Hollywood.