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Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American character actor. He is a 1957 graduate of Staples High School.
Lloyd's first major motion picture role was as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. However, he may be most remembered for his roles as Reverend Jim Ignatowski, the ex-hippie cabbie on the TV sitcom Taxi, and the eccentric inventor Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy of movies. Lloyd made a guest appearance on the sitcom Spin City, where he was reteamed with fellow actor Michael J. Fox.
Lloyd also played notable roles as Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Professor Dimple in an episode of Road to Avonlea, the villain Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family.
Lloyd also appeared as the lead character in the computer game Toonstruck. He performs the voice of The Hacker on the children's math mystery cartoon Cyberchase (January 2002-present) on PBS Kids GO!. In 1999, Lloyd starred in the movie It Came From the Sky with Yasmine Bleeth. On one episode of Malcolm in the Middle, he plays Malcolm's paternal grandfather. He portrayed the Constitutionalist Lawrence Lessig (who in real life is twenty years younger than Lloyd) in an episode of the sixth season of the West Wing.
Many of Lloyd's roles seem to lean toward comic relief, whether as hyper characters like Reverend Jim or Doc Brown, or as uptight conservatives such as in The Dream Team and Mr. Mom. Lloyd has showed considerable range as a dramatic actor, however, in movies such as Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead as a leprous projectionist, and Wit.
Lloyd rarely appears in public and doesn't give interviews. Some of his best friends, co-stars and fans who meet him describe him as a very shy and quiet man.
Lloyd's most recent role was on the Fox sitcom Stacked, opposite Pamela Anderson; however, it was cancelled during the second season.
Filmography
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Goin' South (1978)
- Taxi (1978)
- Mr. Mom (1983)
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Clue (1985)
- Walk Like a Man (film) (1987)
- Track 29 (1988)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- The Dream Team (1989)
- Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Back to the Future Part III (1990)
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
- Suburban Commando (1991)
- The Addams Family (1991)
- Dennis the Menace (1993)
- Addams Family Values (1993)
- Angels in the Outfield (1994)
- Camp Nowhere (1994)
- The Pagemaster (1994)
- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
- Quicksilver Highway (1997)
- Anastasia (1997)
- The Real Blonde (1997)
- My Favorite Martian (1999)
- Alice in Wonderland (1999)
- Baby Geniuses (1999)
- Man on the Moon (1999)
- It Came From the Sky (1999)
- Wit (2001)
- When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001)
- Interstate 60 (2002)
- I Dream (TV show) (2004)
- Stacked (2005)
- Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie (2005)
Trivia
- The actor Lloyd is sometimes confused with another Christopher Lloyd, an American TV writer and the producer of the shows Frasier and Wings, among others. The producer Lloyd jokes that he gets a lot of the actor's fan mail.
- Sam Lloyd, best known for playing Ted the lawyer on Scrubs, is the nephew of Christopher Lloyd.
External links
- Christopher Lloyd at IMDb
- All Movie Guide entry for Christopher Lloyd
- Another Unofficial Christopher Lloyd Web Site
- Christopher Lloyd at Memory Alpha