Danny Lloyd

Danny Lloyd is an American former child actor whose best known role is Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), the horror film adapted from Stephen King's novel. He was born in Tremont, Illinois, and at six years old won the part partly because he could keep his concentration for long stretches. Kubrick kept a protective eye on him while he worked, and Lloyd has said he believed he was making a drama, not a horror movie. He only saw the finished film five years after it was made. He next played a young G. Gordon Liddy in Will: G. Gordon Liddy (1982), a television film, and then he left acting. In 2004 he began teaching biology as an associate professor at a community and technical college in Kentucky, and in Doctor Sleep (2019), Mike Flanagan's sequel to The Shining, he appeared briefly as a spectator.