Frank William George Lloyd was a Scottish-American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor, born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, on 2 February 1886 and died on 10 August 1960. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was its president from 1934 to 1935. He is Scotland's first Academy Award winner and is unique in film history, having received three Oscar nominations in 1929 for a silent film (The Divine Lady), a part-talkie (Weary River) and a full talkie (Drag), and he won for The Divine Lady.
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2 February 1886
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Lloyd won the Academy Award for Best director for The Divine Lady.
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was a Scottish-American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
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Cavalcade is a 1933 American pre-Code epic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd.
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