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Original Danny Torrance Actor Responds to The Shining Sequel Doctor Sleep

Former actor Danny Lloyd played Danny Torrance in The Shining and thinks Doctor Sleep is already doing a good job based on the trailer.

Kevin BurwickJun 15, 2019

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Danny Lloyd born January 1 1973 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 In the DVD commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter they state that Kubrick was able to film all of Lloyd s scenes 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 2007 Lloyd became the professor of biology at a community college in Elizabethtown Kentucky and in December of the same year he became a teacher of sciences in Missouri