Christopher Lloyd: Summary

Recent Role:: Tesselink on Knights of Bloodsteel

Gender:: Male

Birthday:: 10-22-1938

Birthplace:: Stamford, Connecticut, USA

Birth Name:: Christopher Allen Lloyd

AKA:: Chris Lloyd

Christopher was drawn to acting at the age of 14, and two years later he was appearing in summer stock. At 19 he moved to New York and began acting classes, most notably at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner. Chris moved to New York City to study acting instead of continuing in plays. Christopher has appeared in countless Broadway and New York Shakespeare Festivals along with off-Broadway productions Such as "Happy End", "A Midsummer Nights Dream" (co-starring with Meryl Streep), "MacBeth" and "King Lear."

It wasn't until he made his Motion Picture Debut in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Lloyd was determined to pursue a career in Film so on July 4, 1976 he moved to Los Angeles. Two years later he guest stared on eight episodes of Taxi and that launched his career into stardom. The following season he was added as a cast regular, opposite buddy Danny DeVito, whom he had previously worked with on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Goin' South.

Christopher's won three Emmy awards--two for Outstanding Supporting actor in a comedy series for his role in both the 1982 and 1983 Seasons of Taxi and Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series on a guest appearance in Disney's "Avonlea" (1992) and other awards such as an Obie Award in 1973, Drama Desk Award also in 1973 from the Village Voice for Outstanding Performance in the Off-Broadway play "Kaspar".

After Taxi ended, Lloyd went primarily into movie work with such characters as Doc Brown, Fester Addams, and Colonel Kruge, to name a few. His best-known role is Dr. Emmett L. Brown from the Back To The Future movies. Chris reprised the character back in the early '90s in Universal Studios' themepark ride attraction Back to the Future... The Ride, and two seasons on The short-lived CBS Cartoon Series Back to the Future - The Animated Series. He also made his CD-ROM Game debut on the interactive game Toonstruck.

Despite his success he doesn't make appearnces on talk shows promoting his movies or shows because he's an extremely shy guy and he prefers to keep his personal life separate from his acting career and before he signs a contract he makes sure that he does not do any talk show appearances or interviews because he dose not feel comfortable doing interviews. He has promoted two films by appearing in music videos by the soundtrack's artists: Doc Brown in Huey Lewis & The News' "The Power of Love", and as Fester Addams in MC Hammer's "Addams Groove". Christopher was drawn to acting at the age of 14, and two years later he was appearing in summer stock. At 19 he moved to New York and began acting classes, most notably at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner. Chris moved to New York City to study acting instead of continuing in plays. Christopher has appeared in countless Broadway and New York Shakespeare Festivals along...

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drwoowoocl
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Christopher Lloyd is a veteran character actor who has done yeomen work in movies and TV. I first saw him in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" and then on Taxi as Rev. Jim, and in many films, most famously in Back to the Future as Doc Emmett Brown. ...Continue »
If Christopher Lloyd never did anything after Taxi, he would still earn a spot on my list. Reverend Jim was one of the most truly original characters in the history of American sitcoms. Lloyd couldve played him as a one dimensional stereotype of an aging hippie, but he imbued the character with such depth that he was very likeable and sweet. And he had a basic decency that wasnt corny. He was genuine. After Taxi ended, Lloyd moved on to movies. He had a small part in Mr. Mom as one of Michael Keatons co-workers. He did all right with what screen time he had. Then he did Back to the Future where he had the chance to create another memorable character. Indeed, I think it was Lloyd portrayal of Doc Brown that give the movie its emotional resonance. After the 3 BTTF films, he moved on the remake of The Addams Family, playing Uncle Fester in 2 films. He also appeared in the underrated The Dream Team sharing time with Keaton, Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst. The last time I saw Lloyd in a movie was Things to do in Denver when Youre Dead, where he made the most of limited screen time in a film that I felt was kind of overrated. I havent seen him in anything since then, but Im ever wary of his next role. "Now youre going to see some serious shi-!"
09/25/08 08:34pm | report abuse
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amauriel
member since: Jun 3, 2005
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Christopher Lloyd is a true actor who's been in the business for much longer than I've been alive. He has played ever type of role imaginable. You really believe that he got into acting because he loves it for what it is. You'll never see him in any tabloids and you won't hear any gossip about him. In his roles, you sense more realism than many other actor's who are considered more talented than he. Of all of his roles in all of his movies, my favorite has to be "Back to the Future."
03/02/07 11:20am | report abuse
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matrix103
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Christopher Lloyd has to be the best character on Cyberchase starring him as the Hacker. Hacker is my #1 favorite character and he has to be the best on the cartoon industries. ...Continue »
On a scale of 1 to 10 I rate his performance a 10. You can see CyberChase on PBS on weekdays at 4:30. He does a great roll on Cyberchase as the Hacker. He guest starred on star trek one of the movies I know the one right after the Wrath of Kahn.
11/27/06 09:05am | report abuse
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Water78
member since: Mar 20, 2006
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Christopher Lloyd is very talented actor. With all his movies out there. And shows he has done. He will probably never be forgotten for his role in the movies back to the future. With all the moves he has done, it will show all the different and the most liked roles he has done. It will show h e can don mostley any role
08/19/06 07:48am | report abuse
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Bountyhunterc28
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Christopher Lloyd is such a talented actor, my favorite movie with him in it is the Back To The Future trilogy he played a great Doc, he was also good in Dennis The Menace and Pagemaster. he is well known on the small screen to for shows like taxi and a small apperance on Spin City.
05/04/06 02:42pm | report abuse