Christopher Lloyd
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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, in which he starred with Michael J. Fox. Lloyd later reteamed with Fox when he made a guest appearance on the sitcom Spin City.
Lloyd also played notable roles as Klingon Commander Kruge in , Professor Dimple in an episode of Road to Avonlea, and the villain Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Lloyd also appeared as the lead character in the computer game Toonstruck. He performs the voice of The Hacker on the children's cartoon show Cyberchase on PBS. 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.
Much 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 leperous 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)
- (1984)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Clue (1985)
- Walk Like a Man (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)
- (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 (2004)
- Stacked (2005)
- (2005)
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Other uses
- 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.
- Christopher Lloyd is the birth name of rapper Lloyd Banks.
- Christopher Lloyd is the name of an author of gardening books.
- Sam Lloyd is the nephew of Christopher Lloyd.
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