Christopher Lloyd

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Christopher Lloyd

at Back to the Future: The Ride's Closing Ceremony in 2007
Born Christopher Allen Lloyd
October 22, 1938 (1938-10-22) (age 70)
Stamford, Connecticut
United States
Years active 1975–present
Spouse(s) Catherine Boyd (1959–1971)
Kay Tornborg (1975–1987)
Jac Vanek (1988–1991)
Jane Walker Wood (1992–2005)

Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is a three-time Emmy Award-winning American actor known for his gruff, eloquent voice. He is well known for his portrayals of iconic characters such as Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and Reverend Jim Ignatowski on television's Taxi. He also starred in the short-lived television series Deadly Games, where he played Jackal, a videogame villain brought to life. His unique voice has also made him popular with animation, frequently voicing villains. He currently voices the character Hacker on the animated PBS series Cyberchase.

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[edit] Personal life

Lloyd was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Ruth (née Lapham), a singer who was the sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham, and Samuel R. Lloyd, a lawyer.[1][2] He attended the Fessenden School, a preparatory school in Newton, Massachusetts. Lloyd was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut and Westport, Connecticut where he graduated from Staples High School in 1958. His mother donated Waveny Park to the town of New Canaan.

Lloyd seldom appears in public or gives interviews (he gave rare interviews on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Family Films in 2005 and on the Opie and Anthony show in 2009 as a birthday gift to co-host and BTTF superfan Anthony Cumia). Some of his best friends, co-stars and fans who have met him describe Lloyd as a very shy and quiet man. His nephew, Sam Lloyd, is best known for playing Ted Buckland, the lawyer on Scrubs. Christopher Lloyd was married from February 1992 to December 2005 to writer/producer Jane Walker Wood; this was his fourth marriage. His namesake, Chris Lloyd, is not related but is actually the son of sitcom writer David Lloyd. He is a fan of fly fishing. Lloyd's home was destroyed in the Tea Fire of November 2008 in Montecito, California.

[edit] Career

He began acting by age 14 and started apprenticing in summer stock. He took acting classes in New York City at age 19, some at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner. He appeared in several Broadway productions, including Happy End, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Red, White and Maddox, Kaspar [disambiguation needed], The Harlot and the Hunted, The Seagull, Total Eclipse [disambiguation needed], Macbeth, In the Boom Boom Room, Cracks [disambiguation needed], Professional Resident Company, What Every Woman Knows, And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, The Father [disambiguation needed], King Lear, and Power Failure.

His 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 sci-fi films, a role he has played numerous times in various spin-offs and incarnations. He 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 title role in The Pagemaster, the villain Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a wacky sound effects man named Zoltan in Radioland Murders, and Uncle Fester in the big screen adaptations of The Addams Family. In November 2007, Lloyd was reunited onscreen with his former Taxi co-star Judd Hirsch in the (Season 4 episode) "Graphic"[3] of the TV series Numb3rs.

He played Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2008 production of A Christmas Carol at the Kodak Theare with John Goodman and Jane Leeves. He also recently appeared in a false trailer for a fake horror film, entitled Gobstopper, where he played Willy Wonka as a horror movie villain.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards
Saturn Awards
Independent Spirit Awards
DVD Exclusive Awards
Daytime Emmy Awards
  • (2008) Nominated - Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program / Cyberchase

[edit] Further reading

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sam Lloyd, Sr. Biography (1925-)
  2. ^ Lloyd genealogy
  3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139210/

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series

Ted Knight (1976) · Gary Burghoff (1977) · Rob Reiner (1978) · Robert Guillaume (1979) · Harry Morgan (1980) · Danny DeVito (1981) · Christopher Lloyd (1982) · Christopher Lloyd (1983) · Pat Harrington, Jr. (1984) · John Larroquette (1985) · John Larroquette (1986) · John Larroquette (1987) · John Larroquette (1988) · Woody Harrelson (1989) · Alex Rocco (1990) · Jonathan Winters (1991) · Michael Jeter (1992) · Michael Richards (1993) · Michael Richards (1994) · David Hyde Pierce (1995) · Rip Torn (1996) · Michael Richards (1997) · David Hyde Pierce (1998) · David Hyde Pierce (1999) · Sean Hayes (2000)
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series

Peter Falk (1976) · James Garner (1977) · Edward Asner (1978) · Ron Leibman (1979) · Edward Asner (1980) · Daniel J. Travanti (1981) · Daniel J. Travanti (1982) · Ed Flanders (1983) · Tom Selleck (1984) · William Daniels (1985) · William Daniels (1986) · Bruce Willis (1987) · Richard Kiley (1988) · Carroll O'Connor (1989) · Peter Falk (1990) · James Earl Jones (1991) · Christopher Lloyd (1992) · Tom Skerritt (1993) · Dennis Franz (1994) · Mandy Patinkin (1995) · Dennis Franz (1996) · Dennis Franz (1997) · Andre Braugher (1998) · Dennis Franz (1999) · James Gandolfini (2000)
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