Remembering Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd was one of the pioneers who transformed Hollywood into the movie capital of the world. He was one of the founders of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and in 1929 became the first Scot to win an Oscar. In a career that lasted over forty years, he worked with such legendary stars as Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, James Cagney and Loretta Young. He should be much better known and celebrated in his native land but he remains a strangely neglected figure. His granddaughter Antonia Guerrero thinks she knows why: “ There was never any scandal in my grandfather’s life. He led a long, happy life and never hit the headlines with anything salacious. He never became a specialist in one kind of film. He was just extremely self-effacing.”
Frank Lloyd was born in Cambuslang on February 2, 1886, the youngest of seven children. His Welsh father was an engineer who installed turbine engines in ships. The combination of his father’s occupation and the lure of the River Clyde gave Lloyd a strong love of the sea that was reflected in his best films from the rousing adventure yarn The Sea Hawk (1924) to the Oscar-winning Mutiny On The Bounty (1935).
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