Danny Lloyd | Biology Professor

Kubrick’s The Shining is an unfaithful adaptation of the best-selling Stephen King book. One of The Shining’s brilliant ending scenes shows Jack hunting his son Danny in an intricate maze with the intent to cause harm.

Danny Lloyd was an ordinary five-year-old boy living in Pekin, Illinois, in 1977 when his father learned a call-out for auditions on local radio. They were looking for a boy his age for a film, so he sent a picture. Danny was cast in the role after Kubrick’s assistant called the house one day. Just like that, the boy became legendary. Surprisingly, however, the young actor vanished after acting alongside Jack Nicholson in the horror classic. After The Shining, Lloyd only had one other acting role. Where did he go? Lloyd wanted to join films but “just had little luck.” When he was 13 or 14, he eventually gave up. Lloyd, who now goes by the name Dan rather than Danny, got his degree and is a biology educator at a community university in Kentucky.