27 Facts About Christopher Lloyd

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Christopher Allen Lloyd was born on October 22,1938 and is an American actor.

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Christopher Lloyd has appeared in many theater productions, films, and on television since the 1960s.

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Christopher Lloyd is known for portraying Dr Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi, for which he won two Emmy Awards.

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Christopher Lloyd made his cinematic debut in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and went on to star as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Professor Plum in Clue, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family Values, Switchblade Sam in Dennis the Menace, Mr Goodman in Piranha 3D, Bill Crowley in I Am Not a Serial Killer and David Mansell in Nobody.

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Christopher Lloyd earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance as Alistair Dimple in Road to Avonlea, and won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in Twenty Bucks.

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Christopher Lloyd has done extensive voice work, including Merlock in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Grigori Rasputin in Anastasia, the Hacker in the PBS Kids series Cyberchase, which earned him Daytime Emmy nominations, and the Woodsman in the Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall.

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Christopher Lloyd is the youngest of three boys and four girls, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Christopher Lloyd was raised in Westport, Connecticut, where he attended Staples High School and was involved in founding the high school's theater company, the Staples Players.

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Christopher Lloyd began his career apprenticing at summer theaters in Mount Kisco, New York, and Hyannis, Massachusetts.

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Christopher Lloyd is known for his work as "Reverend" Jim Ignatowski, the ex-hippie 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 Back to the Future trilogy for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award.

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Christopher Lloyd portrayed the star character in the adventure game Toonstruck, released in November 1996.

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That same year, Christopher Lloyd starred in the film remake of the 1960s series My Favorite Martian.

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Christopher Lloyd starred on the television series Deadly Games in the mid-1990s and was a regular on the sitcom Stacked in the mid-2000s.

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In November 2007, Christopher 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.

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Christopher Lloyd then played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2008 production of A Christmas Carol at the Kodak Theatre with John Goodman and Jane Leeves.

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In 2012 and 2013, Christopher Lloyd reprised the role of Doc Brown in two episodes of the stopmotion series Robot Chicken.

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Christopher Lloyd was a guest star on the 100th episode of the USA Network sitcom Psych as Martin Khan in 2013.

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In May 2013, Christopher Lloyd appeared as the narrator and the character Azdak in the Bertolt Brecht play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, produced by the Classic Stage Company in New York.

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In May 2018, Christopher Lloyd made a cameo appearance in the episode titled "No Country For Old Women" of Roseanne, where he played the role of Lou, the boyfriend to the mother of Roseanne and Jackie.

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Christopher Lloyd is set to reprise the role in an episode of its spin-off, The Conners, airing May 4,2022.

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In March 2021, Christopher Lloyd played the best friend of William Shatner in the romantic comedy movie Senior Moment, starring Jean Smart.

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In September 2021, Lloyd portrayed Rick Sanchez in a series of promotional interstitials directed by Paul B Cummings for the two-part fifth season finale of Rick and Morty, a character inspired by Lloyd's portrayal of Dr Emmett "Doc" Brown from Back to the Future, alongside Jaeden Martell as Morty Smith.

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In March 2022, Christopher Lloyd appeared in a promotion for the time travel film The Adam Project along with two of its stars, Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo.

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Christopher Lloyd 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.

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Christopher Lloyd married Catharine Dallas Dixon Boyd, on June 6,1959.

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Christopher Lloyd married actress Kay Tornborg in 1974, divorcing her circa 1987.

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Christopher Lloyd's other surviving children were Donald L Mygatt, Antoinette L Mygatt Lucas, Samuel Lloyd III, Ruth Lloyd Scott, Ax Lloyd, and Adele L Kinney.