Doing some research for an up and coming podcast about Stanley Kubricks The Shining, it got me to wondering whether or not Danny Lloyd (playing Danny Torrance) was still acting. Checking out his IMDB link indicates that he stopped acting in 1982, some more research dug up this recent photo of him. (although Danny did appear in a cameo in Doctor Sleep, his first onscreen role in over three decades)
According to a source, Danny Lloyd teaches Anatomy and Physiology in Elizabethtown, Kentucky at the community college. Strange tale though he apparently kicked a guy out of a class because the guy asked if he was the kid in “The Shining”. (although as we all know the internet can be filled with hearsay, so until I know that story to be true. I will remind everyone that its just a story that’s out there…)
I do hope that story isnt true. as people love The Shining and Danny was excellent in it. But The Shining does have its obsessives, those who say its about this, its about that, its about genocide, its about moon landings, its about the native American, and whilst all those theories are fascinating, I like to think The Shining is about a family in a hotel over the winer.
I also did hear a rumour (or rather I read a rumour) has it that at the beginning of each semester, Danny tells his students ‘anyone asking about The Shining, fails the class’
As some updates to this article (well more a bunch of words I put together rather than an article) If you look online and search Danny Lloyd appearances, You can see that Danny has started appearing at some conventions, and has some scheduled for 2023. so perhaps the stories of Danny not liking his past role in the Kubrick film are starting to thaw and Danny is now embracing just how much people do want to meet him (I hope so)
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Danny isn’t here Mrs Torrence….
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YOU FAIL!
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Even though damn Lloyd is not acting anymore I really believe that he gave us a sense with real acting is as a child’s point of view I thought he was really good in The shining and even though he didn’t know it was a horror film I’ll tell you one thing he really was great in it so he’s not acting anymore but I’m really glad that he had the opportunity to do to shine so we could have known about him. Thanks Dan Lloyd for the memories of The shining The shining
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Vagina.
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“Ask who I am and you will be redrum-ed!”
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After he warns them they should all start chanting “Redrum….redrum”
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oddly enough, in the book, the father has to get the care taker job because he was a teacher and he beat up a kid and got fired….
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The cycle is almost complete…
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…young Skywalker.
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creamy stinksters
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Sounds like he has Dustin Diamond syndrome…
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Read more about this syndrome here:
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/index.php?title=Dustin_Diamond&oldid=334191
Also, I would say this guy is slightly more successful and …lets go with normal? than Dustin Diamond. He’s not looking for the attention, chose instead something practical, versus trying to follow in Tom Green’s shoes.
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Yeah you’re right girl but let me just tell you when you do acting your whole life you don’t think of yourself as a normal person but then Lloyd really is and every day average guy he just did a film when he was a child he felt to live a normal life then go crazy trying to do auditions for films and he felt he made good choice I agree with you
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Dez, fuck me
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gay…huh?
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No not gay and if you’re speaking of happy gay yes makes people happy that actors do a great job making movies and Dan Lloyd was one of them there’s no gay involved
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I’m a journalist in Elizabethtown and he does (or he did the last time I checked) work for our local community college. A former colleague of mine repeatedly approached him for an interview and he declined.
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There is nothing worse than an, “Are we there yet,”
ten minutes into a little toomuch privacy that I’d rather
keep private.
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Does Danny say “are we there yet” in the movie??
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No, I don’t think he does.!
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Does Danny say “are we there yet” in the movie? Noone seems to remember but I do LOL
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This is very true. Lloyd now despises his parents for putting him in the horror movie. He no longer speaks to them over it.
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I didn’t know much about Danny Lloyd but now I do I was really glad that he played Danny Torrence in The shining he was a remarkable actor in that movie even though he does not act anymore was so glad to have him a part of The shining he gave us a great deal
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When he was a child he was such a cute adorable little kid he grew up to be a handsome young man damn Lloyd gave us more than just being in The shining he shows what true Acton was I couldn’t put it in my other dialogue but I’m doing that now so I wanted to thank you Dan Lloyd and if you reply I would love that I know you’re not acting anymore as I said before but I’m so glad that you did because we had a chance to really knew what a real actor is. 😘
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When he was a child he was such a cute adorable little kid he grew up to be a handsome young man damn Lloyd gave us more than just being in The shining he shows what true Acton was I couldn’t put it in my other dialogue but I’m doing that now so I wanted to thank you Dan Lloyd and if you reply I would love that I know you’re not acting anymore as I said before but I’m so glad that you did because we had a chance to really knew what a real actor is. 😘
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