CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

'Christopher Allen Lloyd' (born October 22, 1938) is a three-time Emmy Award-winning American character actor.

Contents

Biography

Personal life

Career

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Personal life

Lloyd was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Ruth Lapham (the sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham) and Samuel R. Lloyd.^[1] He attended the Fessenden School, a prestigious pre-preparatory school in Newton, Massachusetts. He is a 1957 graduate of Staples High School. His family has lived in New Canaan, Conn. and donated the historical 'Waveny Mansion' to the town. Since its donation, the mansion and its land have become a well renowned park in the town. He rarely appears in public or gives interviews (he gave a rare interview on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Family Films in 2005). Some of his best friends, co-stars and fans who meet him describe him as a very shy and quiet man. His nephew, Sam Lloyd, is best known for playing Ted Buckland, the lawyer on ''Scrubs''.

Career

Lloyd 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. ^[2] He appeared in several musicals on Broadway, including "Happy End", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Red, White and Maddox", "Kaspar", "The Harlot and the Hunted", "The Seagull", "Total Eclipse", "MacBeth", "In the Boom Boom Room", "Cracks", "Professional Resident Company", "What Every Woman Knows", "As They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers", "The Father", "King Lear", and "Power Failure." ^[2]
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'' series. He also played notable roles as Klingon Commander Kruge in '', Professor Dimple in an episode of ''Road to Avonlea'', 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''.
He also appeared as the lead character in the 1996 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!'', and was a regular on the Pamela Anderson sitcom ''Stacked''. Lloyd has guest-starred on numerous TV programs during his career. For example, on one episode of ''Malcolm in the Middle'', he plays Malcolm's eccentric paternal grandfather. He also portrayed the Constitutionalist Lawrence Lessig (who in real life is twenty-three years younger than Lloyd) in an episode of the sixth season of ''The West Wing''.
Many of his 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 shown 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's most recent role was in a Season 2 episode of the Showtime series ''Masters of Horror'' entitled "Valerie on the Stairs". Lloyd has also recently appeared in a series of DirecTV commercials as his trademark ''Back to the Future'' character Emmett Brown. They premiered January 8, 2007, during the BCS Championship Football Game.
Lloyd was knighted "Chevalier de l'Ordre du Corbeau" (literally "Knight in the Order of the Raven") in Belgium at the BIFFF (Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film) - www.bifff.org - on 12 April 2007. Lloyd appeared in person, answered audience questions and signed selected items.
Lloyd appeared as a guest performer during the opening keynote of Microsoft TechEd 2007 on June 4th 2007 in character as Dr. Emmett Brown from ''Back to the Future'' as a comic foil for Bob Muglia, Microsoft's Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business. Lloyd carried with him a squeeze-operated horn touted as his "Vision Speak" disruption device, threatening to interrupt Muglia if he should slip into corporate cliché language.

Filmography

★ ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975)

★ ''Goin' South'' (1978)

★ ''Taxi'' (1978)

★ ''The Onion Field'' (1979)

★ ''The Legend of the Lone Ranger'' (1981)

★ ''Mr. Mom'' (1983)

★ ''To Be or Not to Be'' (1983)

★ '' (1984)

★ ''The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'' (1984)

★ ''Back to the Future'' (1985)

★ ''Clue'' (1985)

★ ''Miracles'' (1986)

★ ''Walk Like a Man'' (1987)

★ ''Track 29'' (1988)

★ ''Eight Men Out'' (1988)

★ ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' (1988)

★ ''The Dream Team'' (1989)

★ ''Back to the Future Part II'' (1989)

★ ''Back to the Future Part III'' (1990)

★ '' (1990)

★ ''Suburban Commando'' (1991)

★ ''The Addams Family'' (1991)

★ ''Rent-A-Kid'' (1992)

★ '' (1992)


★ ''Dennis the Menace'' (1993)

★ ''Addams Family Values'' (1993)

★ ''Twenty Bucks'' (1993)

★ ''Angels in the Outfield'' (1994)

★ ''Camp Nowhere'' (1994)

★ ''The Pagemaster'' (1994)

★ ''Radioland Murders'' (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)

★ ''Kids World'' (2001)

★ ''Interstate 60'' (2002)

★ ''Wish You Were Dead'' (2002)

★ ''Haunted Lighthouse''(2003)

★ ''Tremors (TV series)'' (2003)

★ ''I Dream (TV show)'' (2004)

★ ''Stacked'' (2005)

★ '' (2005)

★ ''A Perfect Day (2006)

★ ''Fly Me to the Moon (2007)

★ ''Valerie on the Stars'' (2007)

★ ''Foodfight!'' (2008)

★ ''A Christmas Carol'' (2009)

References

1. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/lloyd.htm
2. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Christopher%20Lloyd
3. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Christopher%20Lloyd

External links

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★ All Movie Guide entry for Christopher Lloyd

★ Another Unofficial Christopher Lloyd Web Site

★ Christopher Lloyd at Memory Alpha