Danny Lloyd Biography

Danny Lloyd starred in only one major theatrical film -- but that sole credit happened to be Stanley Kubrick's much-debated version of The Shining (1980). After one of Kubrick's assistants conducted a several-month search through the Midwest for an unknown to play Danny Torrance, Illinois-born Lloyd was chosen from 5,000 candidates via a videotaped audition. Despite having no prior acting experience, Lloyd proved eerily effective as the psychic child who senses something seriously wrong at the Overlook Hotel. Whether impassively riding through the hotel corridors on his Big Wheel, fleeing Jack Nicholson in a snowy maze or (most memorably) croaking "REDRUM" through his finger, Lloyd's solemn visage conveyed the young Torrance's unfathomable fear at being subject to forces he can't quite handle. Though reviews were sharply divided over Nicholson's hysteria-pitch performance (not to mention Kubrick's changes to Stephen King's novel), Lloyd remained critically unscathed. Except for an appearance as the young Liddy in the TV film Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (1982), Lloyd has not acted since. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

• 1. Danny Torrance: Redrum.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Daniel D (6 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.
  2. Jack Torrance: See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Andrew M (7 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: [as Tony] Danny isn't here, Mrs. Torrance.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Andrew M (7 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: Redrum! Redrum! Redrum!
  2. Wendy Torrance: [Wendy wakes up and screams] Danny! [takes the knife away from his hand] Danny stop it! Danny!
  3. Jack Torrance: [After Smashing the door and Wendy and Danny hide in the bathroom] Wendy, I'm home.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Nick P (8 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: Redrum. Redrum. Redrum.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Noah G (8 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: Redrum. Redrum. Redrum.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Ryan M (10 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: Tony, I'm scared (in Tony's voice) Remember what Mr. Hallorann said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny. It isn't real.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: Dad?
  2. Jack Torrance: Yes?
  3. Danny Torrance: Do you like this hotel?
  4. Jack Torrance: Yes. I do. I love it. Don't you?
  5. Danny Torrance: I guess so.
  6. Jack Torrance: Good. I want you to like it here. I wish we could stay here forever, and ever, and ever.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: Is there something bad here?
  2. Dick Hallorann: Well, you know, Doc, when something happens, you can leave a trace of itself behind. Say like, if someone burns toast. Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind. Not things that anyone can notice, but things that people who "shine" can see; just like they can see things that haven't happened yet. Well, sometimes they can see things that happened a long time ago. I think a lot of things happened right here in this particular hotel over the years. And not all of them was good.
  3. Danny Torrance: What about Room 237?
  4. Dick Hallorann: Room 237?
  5. Danny Torrance: You're scared of Room 237, ain't ya?
  6. Dick Hallorann: No I ain't.
  7. Danny Torrance: Mr. Hallorann. What is in Room 237?
  8. Dick Hallorann: Nothing. There ain't nothing in Room 237. But you ain't got no business going in there anyway. So stay out. You understand? Stay out.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Dick Hallorann: I can remember when I was a little boy. My grandmother and I could hold conversations entirely without ever opening our mouths. She called it "shining." And for a long time, I thought it was just the two of us that had the shine to us. Just like you probably thought you was the only one. But there are other folks, though mostly they don't know it, or don't believe it. How long have you been able to do it? Why don't you want to talk about it?
  2. Danny Torrance: I'm not supposed to.
  3. Dick Hallorann: Who said you ain't supposed to?
  4. Danny Torrance: Tony.
  5. Dick Hallorann: Who's Tony?
  6. Danny Torrance: Tony is a little boy that lives in my mouth.
  7. Dick Hallorann: Is Tony the one that tells you things?
  8. Danny Torrance: Yes.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Wendy Torrance: Hey. Wasn't it around here that the Donner Party got snowbound?
  2. Jack Torrance: I think that was farther west in the Sierras.
  3. Wendy Torrance: Oh.
  4. Danny Torrance: What was the Donner Party?
  5. Jack Torrance: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
  6. Danny Torrance: You mean they ate each other up?
  7. Jack Torrance: They had to, in order to survive.
  8. Wendy Torrance: Jack.
  9. Danny Torrance: Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.
  10. Jack Torrance: See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: (as Tony) Danny isn't here, Mrs. Torrance.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Danny Torrance: Redrum. Redrum. Redrum.
  From The Shining. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)