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Daniel A. Lord was born on April 23, 1888, in Chicago, Illinois.

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Daniel A. Lord

American jesuit priest (1888–1955)

Daniel Aloysius Lord, SJ (April 23, 1888 – January 15, 1955) was an American Jesuit priest and writer. He wrote 32 books, 15 booklets, and 228 pamphlets, as well as countless articles. Lord also wrote 70 plays, musicals, and pageants. He served as one of the technical consultants on Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 The King of Kings. His most influential work was possibly in drafting the 1930 Production Code for motion pictures.

Life

Born in Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 1888, Daniel Lord attended local Catholic elementary and after a year at De La Salle Institute attending St. Ignatius College Prep. In 1909, he entered the Society of Jesus at St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Missouri. Upon completion of his novitiate training at St. Stanislaus, he lived in St. Louis, Missouri. He went on to receive an M.A. in Philosophy from St. Louis University, and taught English there from 1917–1920. He was ordained a priest in 1923.^[1]

In April 1924, Lord addressed 400 delegates of the second annual convention o

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Biography

I am a student of early human history; in my teaching and research, I cover a span of time from humanity’s deep history in Africa to Mediterranean Europe in the later middle ages. The overarching intellectual project of my work in recent years has been to identify and develop new frames or narratives for binding human history together into a seamless whole. I work under the assumption that history is not a political science designed to explain the present. It is an anthropological science designed to help us understand humanity. In everything I do, I hope to show how the intellectual projects that drive transnational and global histories work equally well across time, and to offer the deep past as the new intellectual frontier of historical research and historical framing in the twenty-first century.

Within this broad set of interests, I have two specialties. The first derives from my work as an archival historian of Mediterranean Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, where my work has been based on the mass of archival documentation from the period.

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Daniel Lord: The Jesuit Who Shaped Hollywood’s Moral Compass

TRUE STORY

Adopted by the film industry in 1930, the Hays Code was a set of guidelines that governed film content for over 25 years. Its principal author was the Jesuit Daniel Lord, whose involvement remained a long kept secret due to the widespread anti-Catholic sentiment in the US at the time.

In the late 1990s, while working as a film producer in Hollywood, I was asked by the Producers Guild of America to chair the Social Awareness Committee. This role intrigued me, as I had a keen interest in how movies influence audiences and the responsibilities of those creating and distributing them. My research into Hollywood's history led me to the "Production Code," or "Hays Code," a set of moral guidelines voluntarily adopted by the film industry in 1930. This code shaped the content of American films for decades and was largely based on a document by a Jesuit priest, Father Daniel Lord SJ.

The Hays Code, named after Will Hays, the president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of A