Danny Lloyd

Danny Lloyd (born January 1, 1973) is a former American child actor. Lloyd's first and best-known role is that of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. He was selected for the role due to his ability to maintain his concentration for extended periods of time. Lloyd was chosen over other finalist Tim Tiedeman. In the DVD commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter, they state that Kubrick was able... more

Danny Lloyd (born January 1, 1973) is a former American child actor. Lloyd's first and best-known role is that of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. He was selected for the role due to his ability to maintain his concentration for extended periods of time. Lloyd was chosen over other finalist Tim Tiedeman. In the DVD commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter, they state that Kubrick was able to film all of Lloyd's parts without the six-year-old actor realizing he was in a horror movie. Lloyd was also interviewed in The Making of The Shining (1980), filmed by Vivian Kubrick. Despite his performance in The Shining, little was subsequently heard or seen of Lloyd, other than an appearance as 'Young Liddy' in the 1982 made-for-TV movie, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy. Lloyd retired from acting and became a science teacher in the midwest. In 2007, Lloyd became the professor of biology at a community college in Elizabethtown... less