Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is an American actor. He has appeared in many theater productions, films, and on television since the 1960s. He is known for portraying Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy (1985–1990); and

Jim Ignatowski The Reverend Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski is a fictional character in the 1970s television series ''Taxi''. He was played by Christopher Lloyd. A gentle soul, Jim, in his own words, was "the living embodiment of the Sixties." His most noticeable characte ...

in the comedy series '' Taxi'' (1978–1983), for which he won two Emmy Awards. Lloyd came to public attention in Northeastern theater productions during the 1960s and early 1970s, earning

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and

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awards for his work. He made his cinematic debut in ''

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'' (1975), and his television debut in ''

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'' the following year. He also starred as Commander Kruge in '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' (1984), Professor Plum in ''

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'' (1985),

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in '' Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' (1988), and

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in '' The Addams Family'' (1991) and its sequel ''

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'' (1993). He earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance as Alistair Dimple in ''

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'' (1992), and won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in ''

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'' (1993). He has done extensive voice work, including Merlock in '' DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp'' (1990), Grigori Rasputin in ''

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'' (1997), the Woodsman in the

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'' (2014), and the Hacker in the

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series ''

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'' (2002–present), which earned him two further Emmy nominations. He has also been nominated for two

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s and a BIFA.

Early life

Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938, in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Ruth Lloyd (née Lapham; 1896–1984), a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor

Roger Lapham Roger Dearborn Lapham (December 6, 1883 – April 16, 1966) was a shipowner and businessman who served as the 32nd mayor of San Francisco from 1944 to 1948. Life and career Lapham was born in New York City, the son of Antoinette N. (née Dearbo ...

, and her lawyer husband Samuel R. Lloyd Jr. He is the youngest of three boys and four girls, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s. Lloyd's maternal grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham, was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company, and Lloyd is also a descendant of '' Mayflower''

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, including John Howland. Lloyd was raised in Westport, Connecticut, where he attended

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and was involved in founding the high school's theater company, the Staples Players.

Career

Lloyd began his career apprenticing at summer theaters in Mount Kisco, New York, and Hyannis, Massachusetts. He took acting classes in New York City at age 19—some at the

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with Sanford Meisner—and he recalled making his New York theater debut in a 1961 production of

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's play ''And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers'', saying, "I was a replacement and it was my first sort of job in New York." He made his

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debut in the short-lived ''Red, White and Maddox'' (1969), and went on to Off-Broadway roles in ''

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'', ''

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'' (February 1973), ''The Harlot and the Hunted'', '' The Seagull'' (January 1974), ''Total Eclipse'' (February 1974), '' Macbeth'', ''

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'', ''Cracks'', ''Professional Resident Company'', '' What Every Woman Knows'', ''The Father'', '' King Lear'', ''Power Failure'' and, in mid-1972, appeared in a

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double bill, '' Orphée'' and ''

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'', at the Jean Cocteau Theater at 43 Bond Street. Lloyd returned to Broadway for the musical '' Happy End''. He performed in

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's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's ''The Possessed'' at

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, and in Jay Broad's premiere of ''White Pelican'' at the P.A.F. Playhouse in

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, on Long Island. In 1977, he said of his training at the Neighborhood Playhouse under Meisner, "My work up to then had been very uneven. I would be good one night, dull the next. Meisner made me aware of how to be consistent in using the best that I have to offer. But I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage." His first film role was psychiatric patient Max Taber in ''

'' (1975), alongside future co-star

Danny DeVito Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series ''Taxi'' (1978–1983), which won him a Gold ...

. He is known for his work as "Reverend" Jim Ignatowski, the ex-

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cabbie on the sitcom '' Taxi'', for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series; and the eccentric inventor Emmett "Doc" Brown in the ''

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'' trilogy for which he was nominated for a

. In 1985, he appeared in the pilot episode of ''

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''. The following year, he played the reviled Professor B.O. Beanes on the television series ''

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''. Other roles include Klingon Commander Kruge in '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' (1984) (on suggestion of fellow actor and friend

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), Professor Plum in ''

'' (1985), Professor Dimple in an episode of ''

'' (for which he won a

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), the villain

in '' Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' (1988), Merlock the Sorcerer in '' DuckTales the Movie'' (1990), Switchblade Sam in '' Dennis the Menace'' (1993), Zoltan in ''

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'' (1994), and

in '' The Addams Family'' (1991) and ''

'' (1993). Lloyd portrayed the star character in the adventure game ''

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'', released in November 1996. In 1999, he was reunited onscreen with

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in an episode of '' Spin City'' entitled "Back to the Future IV — Judgment Day", in which Lloyd plays Owen Kingston, the former mentor of Fox's character, Mike Flaherty, who stopped by City Hall to see Kingston, only to proclaim himself God. That same year, Lloyd starred in the

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of the 1960s series ''

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''. He starred on the television series '' Deadly Games'' in the mid-1990s and was a regular on the sitcom '' Stacked'' in the mid-2000s. In 2003, he guest-starred in three of the 13 produced episodes of '' Tremors: The Series'' as the character Cletus Poffenburger. In November 2007, Lloyd was reunited onscreen with his former ''Taxi'' co-star Judd Hirsch in the season-four episode "Graphic" of the television series '' Numb3rs'' as Ross Moore. He then played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2008 production of ''

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'' at the

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with John Goodman and Jane Leeves. In 2009, he appeared in a comedic trailer for a faux horror film version of

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entitled ''Gobstopper'', in which he played Willy Wonka as a horror-film-style villain. In mid-2010, he starred as

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in a Weston Playhouse production of '' Death of a Salesman''. That September, he reprised his role as Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in '' Back to the Future: The Game'', an episodic adventure game series developed by Telltale Games. That same month, the production company 3D Entertainment Films announced Lloyd would star as an eccentric professor who with his lab assistant explore the various dimensions in ''Time, the Fourth Dimension'', an approximately 45-minute Imax

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that was planned for release in 2012. On January 21, 2011, he appeared in " The Firefly" episode of the J. J. Abrams television series ''

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'' as Roscoe Joyce. That August, he reprised the role of Dr. Emmett Brown (from ''

'') as part of an advertising campaign for Garbarino, an

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appliance company, and also as part of Nike's "Back For the Future" campaign for the benefit of

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. In 2012 and 2013, Lloyd reprised the role of Doc Brown in two episodes of the

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series ''

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''. He was a guest star on the 100th episode of the USA Network sitcom ''

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'' as Martin Khan in 2013. In May 2013, Lloyd appeared as the narrator and the character Azdak in the

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play '' The Caucasian Chalk Circle'', produced by the

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in New York. On the October 21, 2015, episode of ''

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'', Lloyd and

appeared in a ''Back to the Future'' skit to commemorate the date in the second installment of the film trilogy. In May 2018, Lloyd made a cameo appearance in the episode titled "No Country For Old Women" of ''

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'', where he played the role of Lou, the boyfriend to the mother of Roseanne and Jackie. He is set to reprise the role in an episode of its spin-off, ''The Conners'', airing May 4, 2022. In late 2019, he provided the voice of Xehanort in the "Re Mind" downloadable content of ''

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'', taking over the role from the late

and Rutger Hauer, and reprised the role in the 2020 video game '' Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory''. In March 2021, Lloyd played the best friend of

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in the romantic comedy movie '' Senior Moment'', also starring

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. In September 2021, Lloyd portrayed

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in a series of promotional interstitials directed by Paul B. Cummings for the two-part fifth season finale of ''

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'', a character inspired by Lloyd's portrayal of Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown from ''Back to the Future'', alongside

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. Addressing his own and original voice actor

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's portrayals of Sanchez compared to Doc Brown, Lloyd stated that "he felt like Doc and Rick were like two brothers that took different paths." In March 2022, Lloyd appeared in a promotion for the time travel film ''

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'' along with two of its stars, Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo.

Upcoming projects

By July 2020, Lloyd was cast as The Alchemist in ''Man & Witch'', a family-friendly fantasy-adventure film directed by

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, with

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set to create the puppets for the film. In March 2022, Lloyd was announced to be set to guest star in an episode of the third season of ''

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'', expected to be released later in the year by Disney+. In April 2022, it was announced that Lloyd will star in '' Spirit Halloween: The Movie'', a film produced in partnership with the

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retailer. He plays Alec Windsor, a wealthy land developer who disappeared one Halloween night, and whose spirit is said to haunt the town in which the film is set each year on Halloween. The film is slated to be released on video-on-demand (VOD) on October 11, 2022.

Personal life

Lloyd married Catharine Dallas Dixon Boyd, on June 6, 1959. They divorced in 1971. He married actress Kay Tornborg in 1974, divorcing her circa 1987. Lloyd's third marriage, to Carol Ann Vanek, had lasted more than two years when they were in the process of divorce in July 1991. His fourth marriage, to screenwriter Jane Walker Wood, lasted from 1992 to 2005. In 2016, he married Lisa Loiacono, who was Lloyd's real estate agent when he sold his house in Montecito, California, in 2012. His former house on that lot was destroyed in the

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of November 2008. Lloyd's philanthropist mother, Ruth Lapham Lloyd, died in 1984 at age 88. Her other surviving children were Donald L. Mygatt, Antoinette L. Mygatt Lucas, Samuel Lloyd III, Ruth Lloyd Scott, Ax Lloyd, and Adele L. Kinney. Lloyd's nephew,

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(1963–2020), was known for playing lawyer Ted Buckland on '' Scrubs''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Video games

Music videos

Theme park attractions

Awards

References

External links

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