Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd | |
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 Lloyd in October 2010 | |
| Born | Christopher Allen Lloyd October 22, 1938 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1952—present |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Boyd (1959–1971) Kay Tornborg (1975–1987) Carol Ann Vanek (1988–1991) Jane Walker Wood(1992–2005) |
Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family Values, and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as Jim Ignatowski in the television series Taxi.
Lloyd has used his vocal talents in animation, frequently voicing villains. He provided voice to the character Hacker on the animated PBS series Cyberchase. Lloyd has won three Primetime Emmy Awards and an Independent Spirit Award, and has been nominated for two Saturn Awards and a Daytime Emmy Award.
Early life
Lloyd was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Samuel R. Lloyd, a lawyer, and his wife Ruth (née Lapham), a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham.[1] His maternal grandfather, Lewis Lapham, was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company, and Lloyd is also a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland. Lloyd 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, an heiress to the Lapham-Texaco oil fortune, donated her family's ancestral home, Waveny Park, to the town of New Canaan.
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. He appeared in several Broadway productions, 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, And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, The Father, King Lear, and Power Failure.
His first major motion picture role was as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Prior to this, he appeared uncredited in the 1970 film Airport.[2] 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 science fiction films, for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award. He portrayed the villain Maj. Bartholomew 'Butch' Cavendish in The Legend of the Lone Ranger 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 Plum in Clue, 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 1999 Lloyd was reunited onscreen with Michael J. Fox in an episode of Spin City titled "Back to the Future IV — Judgment Day" where Lloyd plays Owen Kingston, Mike Flaherty's (Fox's character) former mentor who stops by City Hall to see him, only to proclaim himself as God. That same year, he starred in the movie remake of the 1960s series My Favorite Martian. Also 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 starred in the television series Deadly Games in the mid-1990s and was a regular in the TV series Stacked in the mid-2000s.
Lloyd also acted as the star in the point-and-click adventure game Toonstruck, which released in November 1996. He played Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2008 production of A Christmas Carol at the Kodak Theatre with John Goodman and Jane Leeves. In 2009, he appeared in a trailer for a fake horror film, entitled Gobstopper, where he played Willy Wonka as a horror movie villain.[4] In October 2009, he did a two-man show with comic performer Joe Gallois in several Midwest cities. Lloyd plays Mr. Goodman in the remake Piranha 3D.
In September 2010, he reprised his role as Doctor Emmett Brown in Back to the Future: The Game, an episodic adventure game series being developed by Telltale Games.[5][6]
In the summer of 2010, he starred as Willy Loman in a Weston Playhouse production of Death of a Salesman.[7]
On its January 21, 2011 episode, he appeared in the J.J. Abrams television series Fringe.[8]
In August 2011 he was hired as the character of Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future by Garbarino[9] appliance company in Argentina, to an advertising campaign, and also worked for Nike, in the campaign "Back For the Future" for the benefit of The Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Personal life
Lloyd seldom appears in public or gives interviews. Some of his best friends, co-stars and fans who have met him describe Lloyd as a very shy and quiet man. Lloyd has been married four times but he has never had children. His nephew, Sam Lloyd, is best known for playing Ted Buckland, the lawyer on Scrubs. Lloyd's home was destroyed in the Tea Fire of November 2008 in Montecito, California, Retiring not long after the famous actor moved to a small place called Georgetown in the Dumfries and Galloway area in the South-West Scotland.
At a Q&A session at a Back to the Future trilogy showing in Hollywood in the summer of 2009, Lloyd was asked which of the Back to the Future films was his favorite. He responded "the third one, because for one thing it's a Western and I'm a fan of those, and second, it had a love story. I had always wanted to be in a love story and here I got a chance to be at the center of one". Nearly a year later on May 1, 2010, he appeared at the Tampa Theatre during a screening of Back to the Future, where he participated in another Q&A.[10]
Lloyd appeared at a 25th anniversary screening of Back to the Future in February 2010 at the Hollywood Blvd. Theater in Woodridge, Illinois along with Lea Thompson, Claudia Wells and James Tolkan. All the proceeds were donated to The Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Airport | Patron in diner | Uncredited |
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Max Taber | |
| 1978 | Goin' South | Deputy Towfield | |
| Taxi (TV) | Reverend Jim Ignatowski | Emmy Award[11] for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | |
| Three Warriors | Steve Chaffey | ||
| 1979 | The Onion Field | Jailhouse lawyer | |
| The Lady in Red | Frognose | ||
| 1980 | Schizoid | Gilbert | |
| 1981 | The Legend of the Lone Ranger | Maj. Bartholomew 'Butch' Cavendish | |
| 1983 | Mr. Mom | Larry | |
| To Be or Not to Be | S.S. Captain Schultz | ||
| 1984 | Cheers (TV) | Phillip Semenko | Episode “I'll Be Seeing You” (season 2, episode 21) |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Klingon Commander Kruge | ||
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | John Bigbooté | ||
| National Lampoon's Joy of Sex | Coach Hindenberg | ||
| 1985 | Back to the Future | "Doc" Emmett L. Brown | Nomination - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| Clue | Professor Plum | ||
| Street Hawk (TV) | Anthony Corrido | Special guest star in pilot episode | |
| 1986 | Miracles | Harry | |
| 1987 | Walk Like a Man | Reggie Shand / Henry Shand | |
| 1988 | Track 29 | Henry Henry | |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Judge Doom | Nomination - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor | |
| Eight Men Out | Bill Burns | ||
| 1989 | The Dream Team | Henry Sikorsky | |
| Back to the Future Part II | "Doc" Emmett L. Brown | ||
| 1990 | Back to the Future Part III | "Doc" Emmett L. Brown | |
| Why Me? | Bruno Daley | ||
| DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp | Merlock the Magician | Voice talent | |
| 1991 | Back to the Future: The Ride | "Doc" Emmett L. Brown | Simulator ride |
| Back to the Future: The Animated Series | Doc Emmett L. Brown | Human parts | |
| Suburban Commando | Charlie Wilcox | ||
| The Addams Family | Uncle Fester Addams | ||
| 1992 | Amazing Stories: Book Two (TV) | Professor B.O. Beanes | |
| Road to Avonlea (TV) | Professor Dimple-Guest star role | Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | |
| T bone 'N' Weasel | William 'Weasel' Weasler | ||
| Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster | Frank Iarossi | ||
| 1993 | Dennis the Menace | Switchblade Sam | |
| Addams Family Values | Uncle Fester Addams | ||
| Twenty Bucks | Jimmy | Independent Spirit Award | |
| 1994 | Angels in the Outfield | Al "The Boss" Angel | |
| Camp Nowhere | Dennis Van Welker | ||
| The Pagemaster | Mr. Dewey / The Pagemaster | ||
| In Search of Dr. Seuss | Mr. Hunch | ||
| Radioland Murders | Zoltan: Eccentric sound designer | ||
| Felidae | Joker | English dub | |
| 1995 | Rent-a-Kid | Lawrence 'Larry' Kayvey | |
| Deadly Games | Jordan Kenneth Lloyd / Sebastian Jackal | ||
| Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Pieces | ||
| 1996 | Cadillac Ranch | Wood Grimes | |
| Toonstruck | Drew Blanc | Point-and-click adventure game | |
| 1997 | Quicksilver Highway | Aaron Quicksilver | |
| Anastasia | Grigori Rasputin | Voice talent | |
| Angels in the Endzone | Al "The Boss" Angel | ||
| The Real Blonde | Ernst | ||
| 1999 | My Favorite Martian | Uncle Martin | |
| Alice in Wonderland | The White Knight | ||
| Baby Geniuses | Heep | ||
| Convergence | Morley Allen | Original film title: Premonition | |
| Man on the Moon | Jim Ignatowski,Taxi Remake | ||
| Spin City | Owen Kingston | ||
| It Came From the Sky | Jarvis Moody | ||
| 2001 | Wit | Dr. Harvey Kelekian | |
| When Good Ghouls Go Bad | Uncle Fred Walker | ||
| Kids World | Leo | ||
| 2002 | Interstate 60 | Ray | |
| Wish You Were Dead | Bruce | ||
| Hey Arnold!: The Movie | Coroner | ||
| Cyberchase (TV) | Hacker | Voice talent and lead role | |
| The Big Time (TV) | Doc Powers[12] | ||
| 2003 | Haunted Lighthouse | Cap'n Jack | |
| Tremors (TV) | Cletus Poffenberger | ||
| 2004 | I Dream (TV) | Prof. Toone | |
| Malcolm in the Middle (TV) | Hal's Father | ||
| 2005 | Stacked (TV) | Professor Harold March | |
| Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie | Seymour S. Sassafrass | ||
| Bad Girls From Valley High | Mr. Chauncey | ||
| The West Wing (TV) | Lawrence Lessig | Portrayed the real life Lawrence Lessig | |
| 2006 | A Perfect Day (TV) | Michael | |
| Valerie on the Stairs (TV) | Everett Neely | Episode of Masters of Horror | |
| 2007 | Numb3rs (TV) | Ross Moore | |
| 2008 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV) | Carmine | Episode Vanishing Act |
| Fly Me to the Moon | Grandpa | ||
| The Tale of Despereaux | Hovis | ||
| 2009 | Meteor (TV) | Dr. Lehman | |
| Knights of Bloodsteel (TV) | Tesselink | ||
| Call of the Wild | 'Grandpa' Bill Hale | ||
| Foodfight! | Mr. Clipboard | ||
| Santa Buddies | Stan Cruge | ||
| 2010 | Piranha 3-D | Mr. Goodman | |
| Snowmen | The Caretaker | ||
| Chuck (TV) | Dr. Leo Dreyfus | Episode S03E16: "Chuck Versus the Tooth" | |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | Headmaster | ||
| Back to the Future: The Game | Doctor Emmett "Doc" Brown | Video game | |
| The Witches of Oz | Wizard of Oz[13] | ||
| 2011 | Fringe (TV) | Roscoe Joyce | Episode S03E10: "The Firefly" |
| Love, Wedding, Marriage | Dr. George | ||
| Last Call | Pete | post-production | |
| 2012 | Piranha 3DD | Mr. Goodman | post-production |
| Thicker | Augustine | filming | |
| Excuse Me For Living | Lars[14] | filming |
Awards
| Year | Award | Category | Production / Role | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Drama Desk Award | Best Performance | Kaspar | Won |
| 1982 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Taxi | Won |
| 1986 | Saturn Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Back to the Future | Nominated |
| 1990 | Saturn Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Nominated |
| 1992 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Road to Avonlea | Won |
| 1994 | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Supporting Male | Twenty Bucks | Won |
| 2001 | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Actor | When Good Ghouls Go Bad | Nominated |
| 2008 | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program | Cyberchase | Nominated |
Further reading
- Napoleon, Davi. Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater. Includes discussion of Lloyd's early work off-Broadway, including the production of Happy End at the Chelsea Theater Center and on Broadway, Kaspar, and Total Eclipse. Iowa State University Press, 1991. ISBN-0-8138-1713-7
References
- ^ "Lloyd genealogy". Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ Christopher Lloyd at IMDb
- ^ "Graphic" at IMDb
- ^ "Gobstopper The Movie". Gobstopper The Movie. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ Meghan Watt. "Back to the Future video games to include the voice of Christopher Lloyd".
- ^ Snider, Mike (2010-09-01). "Telltale Games times 'Back to the Future' project". USA Today. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ Itzkoff, Dave (2010-08-25). "Christopher Lloyd stars in 'Death of a Salesman'". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ^ Tucker, Ken (2011-01-21). "The return of 'Fringe' recap: 'The Firefly' glowed with love, loss, and Christopher Lloyd". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
- ^ http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/454208/Tucumanos/Campa%C3%B1a-publicitaria-Doc-Emmet-Brown-exito-YouTube.html
- ^ "'Doc Brown' is in Tampa Bay? Whoa, that's heavy: Christopher Lloyd hitting sci-fi and movie fests".
- ^ Christopher Lloyd Emmy Nominated
- ^ "The Big Time (TV 2002)". Retrieved Nov. 5, 2010.
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- ^ "Excuse Me For Living".
External links
- Christopher Lloyd at IMDb
- Christopher Lloyd at the Internet Broadway Database
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- Christopher Lloyd at Memory Alpha
- Christopher Lloyd at Emmys.com