Christopher Lloyd
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| Born | Christopher Allen Lloyd October 22, 1938 Stamford, Connecticut, USA |
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| Years active | 1975-present | ||||||
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Boyd (1959-1971) Carol Vanek (1988-1991) Jane Walker Wood (1992-2005) |
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Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is a three-time Emmy Award-winning American character actor. He is well known for his roles 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, as well as Reverend Jim Ignatowski on television's Taxi. His unique voice has also made him popular with animation, frequently voicing villains. Right now he is well known as voicing The Hacker on Cyberchase
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[edit] Personal life
Lloyd was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Ruth (née Lapham), who was the sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham, and Samuel R. Lloyd.[1] 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, Ruth, donated Waveny Park to the town.
Lloyd seldom 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've 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 1991 to December 2005 to writer/producer Jane Walker Wood; this was his third marriage.
[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", "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."
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. 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 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.
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[edit] Further reading
- Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater, Davi Napoleon. 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. ISBN-0-8138-1713-7, 1991.
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[edit] External links
- Christopher Lloyd at the Internet Movie Database
- All Movie Guide entry for Christopher Lloyd
- Another Unofficial Christopher Lloyd Web Site
- Christopher Lloyd at Memory Alpha
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| NAME | Lloyd, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lloyd, Christopher Allen |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Three-time Emmy Award-winning American film actor, who specializes in character acting. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stamford, Connecticut |
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