Jul 16, 2024 · But before both of those projects, Lloyd was the victim of a freak accident that left him horribly injured, all due to a mishap that wouldn’t have seemed out of place in one of his silent comedies.

An accident with a bomb mistaken as a prop resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on future films with the use of a special prosthetic glove, and it was almost undetectable on the screen). [5]

May 17, 2022 · Silent film star Harold Lloyd lost his fingers in a freak accident, when a prop bomb turned out to be real during filming and exploded in his hand.

Oct 30, 2023 · Lloyd was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1969 and underwent surgery. He died on March 8, 1971, at his home in Beverly Hills. He was cremated and his ashes were interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Nov 4, 2024 · Additionally, Lloyd had to work around a significant injury—he’d lost his right thumb and forefinger in an accident back in 1919. During filming, some of Harold Lloyd’s most iconic moments in Safety Last! were improvised, and though he took on many of the stunts himself, he occasionally relied on a stunt double for specific scenes.

On 24 August 1919, Harold fell victim to an accident where a real bomb was handed to him (by fellow actor Frank Terry) and as a result Lloyd lost a finger and his thumb. Hal Roach decided at this point to offer Lloyd's long-time co-star Snub Pollard his own series of films.

Nov 12, 2009 · He had lost his index finger and thumb in a freak accident while posing for a photographer in 1919. He was holding a bomb that he thought was a prop, and lit the fuse. It went off in his hand, destroying half of it and tearing up his face. He also went blind for three months.

Mar 8, 2011 · Such was the tragic situation that Harold Lloyd found himself in during late-August, 1919. Lloyd, silent film’s hilarious “Third Genius,” who stands alongside Chaplin and Keaton in the upper echelon of the medium’s pantomiming funnymen, was in the first week of shooting Haunted Spooks when he posed for a publicity photo with a bomb that ...

His Father Had A Big Accident. When Harold was still young and trying to scrape by with his father, a terrifying accident occurred. A delivery truck ran over the elder Lloyd, and for a moment everyone must have held their breath.

Harold Lloyd NEVER publicly talked about the loss of the fingers on that fateful August afternoon. Sure, he talked about the accident, plenty of times, often calling himself “a most fortunate unfortunate.”