Danny Lloyd
Actor · Born October 13, 1972 (54) · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Danny Lloyd (born October 13, 1972) is an American former child actor. Lloyd's first and best-known role is that of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. He was selected for the role due to his ability to maintain his concentration for extended periods of time.
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Biography from TMDB.
- October 13, 1972 (54)
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Actor
- 4 on MovieCove
What are Danny Lloyd's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Morality.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 0 · Serious 1 · Dark 2
A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
- Heroas Danny Torrance in The Shining (1980)
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Danny Lloyd's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 4 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Danny Lloyd's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
4 credits, 4 with a MovieCove page; 4 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Doctor Sleep(2019)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
To Be the Best(1993)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
The Shining(1980)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Career shape
Star power in the 76th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 4 titles from 1980 to 2019.
Film career
- 1980Screen debut· The Shining
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.
How do Danny Lloyd's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 72nd percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 88th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 4 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed2
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.