Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
February 2, 1886
Died
August 10, 1960 (74 years old)
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
Directing
Blood on the Sun
Director
1945
Forever and a Day
Director
1943
Invisible Agent
Producer
1942
The Spoilers
Producer
1942
Saboteur
Producer
1942
The Howards of Virginia
Director, Producer
1940
If I Were King
Director, Producer
1938
Wells Fargo
Director, Producer
1937
Mutiny on the Bounty
Director, Producer
1935
Berkeley Square
Director
1933
Cavalcade
Director, Producer
1933
East Lynne
Director
1931