Danny Lloyd - wikipedia Danny Lloyd For other people named Daniel Lloyd, see Daniel Lloyd ( disambiguation ). Danny Lloyd ( 1972 - 10 - 13 ) October 13, 1972 ( age 45 ) Pekin, Illinois, United States Occupation Teacher, former actor Years active 1979 -- 1982 ( retirement from acting ) Danny Lloyd ( born October 13, 1972 ) is an American teacher and former child actor most known for his role as Danny Torrance in the 1980 film The Shining, an adaptation of Stephen King 's 1977 novel of the same name. Contents 1 Life and career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links Life and career Lloyd 's first and best - known role is that of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick 's The Shining. He was selected for the role due to his ability to maintain his concentration for extended periods. 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. He was led to believe that he was just acting in a drama film about a family who lives in a hotel. Lloyd was also interviewed in Making ' The Shining ' ( 1980 ), filmed by Vivian Kubrick. Despite his well - received performance in The Shining, Lloyd retired from acting after his appearance as ' Young Liddy ' in the 1982 television film, Will : G. Gordon Liddy. In 2007, Lloyd became a biology professor at a community college in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1980 The Shining Danny Torrance 1982 Will : G. Gordon Liddy Young Liddy TV Movie, ( final film role ) References ^ Jump up to : `` Danny Lloyd - About This Person ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2012 - 06 - 06. Jump up ^ Maslin, Janet ( 1980 - 05 - 23 ). `` Movie Review : The Shining ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2012 - 06 - 06. Jump up ^ Daniel, Hugo ( 2013 - 10 - 07 ). `` All work and no play -- Dan Lloyd who played Danny Torrence in ' The Shining ' went on to be a pig farmer and a high school teacher ''. New York Daily News. New York. Retrieved 2014 - 04 - 05. External links Danny Lloyd on IMDb Danny Lloyd at AllMovie VIAF : 56165031 LCCN : no00097264 ISNI : 0000 0000 9111 7757 SUDOC : 052194787 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danny_Lloyd&oldid=807130886 '' Categories : 1972 births American male child actors American male film actors American male television actors Living people Male actors from Chicago 20th - century American male actors People from Pekin, Illinois Hidden categories : Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español Euskara فارسی Français Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Nederlands 日本 語 Polski Português Русский Simple English Suomi Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 26 October 2017, at 02 : 50. About Wikipedia

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