In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

Lewis followed the legacy of such comedians as Keaton and Harold Lloyd, but his work was not well received by critics in the United States ( in contrast to France where he proved highly popular.

Red Skelton, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin would all fit the definition of a character clown.

In 1992, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster told the Toronto Star that the name derived from 1930's cinematic leading men Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, but the persona from bespectacled silent film comic Harold Lloyd and himself.

These included such names as Lilias Armstrong, Harold Palmer, Ida Ward, Hélène Coustenoble, Arthur Lloyd James, Dennis Fry, A. C. Gimson, Gordon Arnold, J. D.

The films were directed by J. Farrell MacDonald, with casts that included Violet MacMillan, Vivian Reed, Mildred Harris, Juanita Hansen, Pierre Couderc, Mai Welles, Louise Emmons, J. Charles Haydon, and early appearances by Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach.

* The Marathon, a 1919 film starring Harold Lloyd

* All the Harold Lloyd features ( silents and talkies ) released by Paramount are owned by the Harold Lloyd Trust except for The Milky Way ( 1936 ), acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Productions for a remake and now in the public domain ; and Professor Beware ( 1938 ), which is owned by EMKA / Universal Television.

Included were films by Pearl White, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and Lon Chaney.

* Harold Lloyd

** Harold Lloyd, American actor ( d. 1971 )

** Harold Lloyd, American actor and filmmaker ( b. 1893 )

Having grown up in Hollywood, the son of a studio production manager and grandson of a silent film director, Edwards had watched the films of the great silent clowns, including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy.

* Harold Lloyd

Initially Grant was concerned about being able to play an intellectual character, but Hawks told him to play it like silent screen comedian Harold Lloyd and Grant felt more confident.

The stigma began to fall away in the early 1900s when the popular Theodore Roosevelt was regularly photographed wearing eyeglasses, and in the 1910s when popular comedian Harold Lloyd began wearing a pair of horn-rimmed glasses as " The Glass Character " in his films.

In superhero fiction, eyeglasses have become a standard component of various heroes ' disguises, allowing them to adopt a nondescript demeanor when they are not in their superhero persona: Superman is well known for wearing 1950s style horn-rimmed glasses as Clark Kent, while Wonder Woman wears either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glasses as Diana Prince.

is a 1923 romantic comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd.

The film opens in 1922 with Harold Lloyd ( the character has the same name as the actor ) behind bars.

* Harold Lloyd as The Boy ( Harold Lloyd )

It went right on creaking under his own considerable weight, and all it needed, Harold thought, was for somebody to fling himself back in a fit of laughter and that would be the end of it.

For instance -- what about all those people Harold Rhodes went toward unhesitatingly, as if this were the one moment they would ever have together, their one chance of knowing each other??

Later in 1051, when he was sent to intercept Harold Godwinson and his brothers as they fled England after their father's outlawing, Ealdred " could not, or would not " capture the brothers.

Stigand's position as archbishop was canonically suspect, and as earl Harold had not allowed Stigand to consecrate one of the earl's churches, it is unlikely that Harold would have allowed Stigand to perform the much more important royal coronation.

In 1930, England captain Douglas Jardine, together with Nottinghamshire's captain Arthur Carr and his bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, developed a variant of leg theory in which the bowlers bowled fast, short-pitched balls that would rise into the batsman's body, together with a heavily stacked ring of close fielders on the leg side.

In addition, Ethiopia had just begun to emerge from a long and brutal famine ; Harold Marcus reminds us that the army was restive over its long service in the field, short of rations, and the short rains which would bring all travel to a crawl would soon start to fall.

Big movies of this sub-genre would be " The Big Lebowski ", Dude, Where's My Car, Big Nothing, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, and Pineapple Express.

Gardner would rarely see Harold, who went on to study Law at the University of Oxford, but saw more of Bob, who drew pictures for him, and Douglas, with whom he shared his nursery.

However, Harold W. Attridge contends that John's status as a " self-conscious and deliberate forerunner of Jesus " is likely to be an invention by early Christians, arguing that " for the early church it would have been something of an embarrassment to say that Jesus, who was in their minds superior to John the Baptist, had been baptized by him.

In 1974, Atari engineer Harold Lee proposed a home version of Pong that would connect to a television: Home Pong.

It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.

In 1964, the new British government under Harold Wilson announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Arabia in 1968, but that the British military would remain.

Historian Harold Larrabee points out that this would have exposed Clinton in New York to blockade by the French if Graves had successfully entered the bay ; if Graves did not do so, de Barras ( carrying the siege equipment ) would have been outnumbered by Graves if de Grasse did not sail out in support.

In an article written shortly before his death, Bradbury said the " John Carter of Mars " books and Harold Foster's 1931 series of Tarzan Sunday comics had such an impact on his life that " The Martian Chronicles would never have happened " otherwise.

On 25 February, he made another speech at Shipley and urged a vote for Labour and saying he did not believe the claim that Wilson would renege his commitment to renegotiation, which Powell believed was ironic because of Heath's premiership: " In acrobatics Harold Wilson, for all his nimbleness and skill, is simply no match for the breathtaking, thoroughgoing efficiency of the present Prime Minister ".

When Tostig asked what his brother Harold would be willing to give Harald Hardrada for his trouble, the rider replied that he would be given seven feet of ground as he was taller than other men.

Tostig seems to have been a favourite with the king and queen, who demanded that the revolt be suppressed, but neither Harold nor anyone else would fight to support Tostig.

In 1039, Harthacnut sailed with ten ships to meet his mother in Bruges but delayed an invasion as it was clear Harold was sick and would soon die, which he did in March 1040.

Offering to consecrate Harold without using any of the royal regalia would have been an empty honor.

The only other king Harold was Harold Godwinson, who would not rise to the throne until 1066.

Eugene was not entirely silent, or openly rude -- unless asking Harold to move to another chair and placing himself in the fauteuil that creaked so alarmingly was an act of rudeness.

This was seen as a move against Harold Harefoot, Cnut's son by Ælfgifu of Northampton, who put himself forward as Harold I with the support of many of the English nobility.

After the move to Stamford, the show hired two local firefighters, Harold and Chris, to join the security team.

Harold Hill is a large scale post-war London County Council housing development, built at the end of the World War II, an attempt to move large sections of the population from poor conditions in central districts to the more pleasant surroundings of the suburbs.

The frenzied press attention paid to the Lindberghs, particularly after the kidnapping of their son and later the trial, conviction and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, prompted Charles and Anne to move first to England, to a house called Long Barn owned by Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, and later to the small island of Illiec, off the coast of Brittany in France.

In 1996, in a move spearheaded by Harold Eickhoff, The College of New Jersey adopted its current name.

His appeals were rejected, though New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman granted a temporary reprieve of Hauptmann's execution and made the politically unpopular move of having the New Jersey Board of Pardons review the case.

Harold Peary was convinced to move The Great Gildersleeve to CBS, but sponsor Kraft refused to sanction the move.

He was expected to move up to the principal's office, when Chancellor Harold O.

Rose, Harold's wife and the town mayor, tells Harold that he is babying her and she is unwelcome in her house until she follows the rules, which forces Amy to move in with her grandmother, Edna.

Esquire editor Harold Hayes later wrote that " in the Sixties, events seemed to move too swiftly to allow the osmotic process of art to keep abreast, and when we found a good novelist we immediately sought to seduce him with the sweet mysteries of current events.

Early gigs in 1988 were played at the Harold Park Hotel, behind a pool table where space was so tight that the guitarists had to move out of the way when pool players took a shot.

Brown favored rescinding the Negro doctrine and expected this change to take place in 1969, but this move was reportedly blocked by Harold B. Lee.

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette (" pronounced bis-on-ay ") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove.

In the show's final season, on CBS, George and Dorothy depart for the Middle East in conjunction with George's work ( DeFore and Blake were dropped from the cast ) while Harold and Hazel move in with George's younger brother, Steve ( Ray Fulmer ), a real estate agent, Steve's wife Barbara ( Lynn Borden ), and their daughter Susie ( Julia Benjamin ).

When The Committee disbanded in 1972, improv company “ Improvisation, Inc .” was the only company in America continuing to perform Del ’ s “ Original ” Harold: A 45-minute free-form piece that would seamlessly move from one “ Harold technique ” to another.

This highly unethical move appalls David when he discovers his uncle's lie, but despite this Harold continues to refuse to tell Colin about his illness.

Sick of being caught between a mother and daughter, who are too old and too young for him respectively, Harold tries to get out of the house and move away, joining the army and getting a new more suitable girlfriend but Marjorie manages to emotionally blackmail him into coming back.