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Christopher Lloyd
Birth name	Christopher Allen Lloyd
Born	October 22, 1938 (age 68) Stamford, Connecticut
Other name(s)	Chris
Spouse(s)	Catherine Boyd (1959-1971) (divorced) Carol Vanek (1988-1991) (divorced) Jane Walker Wood (February 21, 1992-December 28, 2005) (divorced)
Notable roles	Reverend Jim Ignatowski in Taxi Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future sci-fi film trilogy Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values

Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is a 3-time Emmy Award-winning American character actor.

Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life 3 Recent events 4 Filmography 5 Trivia 6 Footnotes 7 External links

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 series. 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 Addams Family.

He also appeared as the lead character in the 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!. 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. He 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 was born in Stamford, Connecticut to Ruth Lapham (the sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham) and Samuel R. Lloyd.^[1] 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. He is a 1957 graduate of Staples High School. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, California.

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.

• 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)
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (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)
• 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)
• DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (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)
• 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)
• I Dream (TV show) (2004)
• Stacked (2005)
• Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie (2005)
• A Perfect Day (2006)
• Foodfight! (2007)

• 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.
• Sam Lloyd, best known for playing Ted Buckland, the lawyer on Scrubs, is the nephew of Christopher Lloyd.

• 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