Motion Picture Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor. Scottish-born entertainment figure with a long career starting in 1913. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, the youngest of seven children, his mother Jane was Scottish and his father Edmund was a Welsh mechanical engineer. He and his family travelled around the country until his father was injured, making him give up engineering. Subsequently, the family moved from Scotland to Shepherd's Bush, London, England where they ran a pub. As a kid, he kept busy by singing in choral groups, working in a shoe shop and working with a local vaudeville group. He emigrated from England to Canada in 1909. Finding work at an Alberta ranch for a year, he also worked for a telephone company and built poles before joining a traveling vaudeville show as a singer and actor. The show came to Los Angeles, California in 1913, leaving Lloyd to stay in L.A. and start acting in Hollywood silent films. Moving into directing, he found work at Paramount Pictures directing short films before graduating into feature films. Among the films he directed and produced include: "Madame X" (1920), "Oliver Twist" (1922), "The Sea Hawk" (1924), "The Divine Lady" (1929), "Drag" (1929), "Weary River" (1929), "The Way of All Men" (1930), "The Age for Love" (1931), "A Passport to Hell" (1932), "Cavalcade" (1933), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), "Under Two Flags" (1936), "Wells Fargo" (1937), "Maid of Salem" (1937), "If I Were King" (1938), "Rulers of the Sea" (1939), "The Howards of Virginia" (1940), "This Woman is Mine" (1941), "The Lady from Cheyenne" (1941), "The Spoilers" (1942), "Forever and a Day" (1943), "Blood on the Sun" (1945), "The Shanghai Story" (1954) and "The Last Command" (1955). He was nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 1929 for The Divine Lady, Weary River and Drag, a mix of silent films and talkie films. Cavalcade and Mutiny on the Bounty won the Academy Award for Best Picture, making him the first Oscar winner from Scotland. In addition to his film work, he is one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), serving as its president from 1934-1935. In 1957, he received the George Eastman Award from the George Eastman House for his distinguished contribution to film. For his contributions to motion pictures, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6667 Hollywood Blvd.