Frank Lloyd
Film director
1886 – 1960
Who was Frank Lloyd?
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 between 1934 and 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, a part-talkie and a full talkie. He won for The Divine Lady. He was nominated and won again in 1933 for his adaptation of Noël 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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- Born
- Feb 2, 1886
Glasgow - Spouses
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 10, 1960
Santa Monica
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on July 23, 2013
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