Christopher Lloyd
{{short description|American actor (born 1938)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Christopher Lloyd
| image = ChristopherLloyd2022.jpg
| caption = Lloyd in 2022
| birth_name = Christopher Allen Lloyd
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|10|22|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
| nationality = {{US}}
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1961–present
| spouse = {{Plainlist|
- {{marriage|Catherine Boyd|1959|1971|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Kay Tornborg|1974|1987|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Carol Ann Vanek|1988|1991|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Jane Walker Wood|1992|2005|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Lisa Loiacono|2016}}
}}
| relatives = {{ubl|Sam Lloyd (nephew)|Lewis Henry Lapham (maternal grandfather)}}
}}
Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938){{cite web| url=http://www.biography.com/people/christopher-lloyd-21215619|title= Christopher Lloyd Biography: Actor (1938–)| website=Biography.com | access-date=November 1, 2016| archive-date=April 14, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414130339/http://www.biography.com/people/christopher-lloyd-21215619| url-status=live}} is an American actor. He has appeared in many theater productions, films, and television shows since the 1960s. He is known for portraying Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990) and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), for which he won two Emmy Awards.
Lloyd came to public attention in Northeastern theater productions during the 1960s and early 1970s, earning Drama Desk and Obie awards for his work. He made his cinematic debut in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and went on to star as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Professor Plum in Clue (1985), Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993), Switchblade Sam in Dennis the Menace (1993), Mr. Goodman in Piranha 3D (2010), Bill Crowley in I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016) and David Mansell in Nobody (2021).
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. He has done extensive voice work, including Merlock in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Grigori Rasputin in Anastasia, the Hacker in PBS Kids' Cyberchase, which earned him Daytime Emmy nominations, and the Woodsman in Cartoon Network's Over the Garden Wall.
Early life
Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938, in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Ruth Lloyd (née Lapham; 1896–1984), a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham,{{cite web |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8jm2c1f/entire_text/ |title=A guide to the Roger D. Lapham photograph collection, 1892–1956 |editor-first=Amy |editor-last=Croft |date=Spring 2013 |publisher=San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park via Online Archive of California |access-date=November 1, 2016 |archive-date=March 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314042100/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark%3A/13030/c8jm2c1f/entire_text/ |url-status=live }} and her lawyer husband Samuel R. Lloyd Jr. (1897–1959). He is the youngest of three boys and four girls, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19911202&id=PvkaAAAAIBAJ&pg=4437,1085766 |title=Christopher Lloyd Is as Mysterious as Character |author-link=Frank Lovece |first=Frank |last=Lovece |agency=United Media |newspaper=The Daily News |location=Bowling Green, Kentucky) |date=December 2, 1991}} Lloyd's maternal grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham, was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/06/11/archives/lewis-h-lapham-financier-76-dies-retired-leather-merchant-was-a.html| title = Lewis H. Lapham, Financier, 76, Dies; Retired Leather Merchant Was a Founder of Texas Corporation, an Oil Concern | work =The New York Times | date = June 11, 1934 | access-date = February 28, 2020| quote = The near relatives who survive [include] ... two daughters, Mrs. Elinor Ford of Washington, D.C.., and Mrs. Samuel Lloyd of Stamford, Conn., and two sons [including] Roger D. Lapham of San Francisco, president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company....}} and Lloyd is also a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland.{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/0d370c58d0034038b6a16c3f57c22af4 |title=Meet John Howland, a lucky Pilgrim — and maybe your ancestor |website=Associated Press |first=Mark |last=Pratt |date=November 26, 2015 |access-date=June 1, 2022}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://06880danwoog.com/tag/christopher-lloyd/ |title=Christopher Lloyd |website=06880 |language=en |access-date=November 8, 2019}}
Career
File:Christopher Lloyd HS yearbook.jpg
Lloyd began his career apprenticing at summer theaters in Mount Kisco, New York, and Hyannis, Massachusetts. He took acting classes in New York City at age 19—some at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with Sanford Meisner—and he recalled making his New York theater debut in a 1961 production of Fernando Arrabal's play And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, saying, "I was a replacement and it was my first sort of job in New York." He made his Broadway debut in the short-lived Red, White and Maddox (1969), and went on to Off-Broadway roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Kaspar (February 1973),{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/16/archives/theater-handkes-kaspar-is-staged-in-brooklyn-the-cast.html| title=Theater: Handke's 'Kaspar' Is Staged in Brooklyn |first=Clive |last=Barnes |author-link=Clive Barnes |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 16, 1973 |access-date=February 28, 2020 | url-access=subscription}} The Harlot and the Hunted, The Seagull (January 1974),{{cite news |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30817FC3E59127A93C6AB178AD85F408785F9 | title=Theater: Good 'Seagull'; Chekhov Play Staged by the Roundabout |first=Clive |last=Barnes |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 24, 1974 |access-date=October 22, 2013 | url-access=subscription}} Total Eclipse (February 1974),{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/25/archives/stage-total-eclipse-by-the-chelsea.html |title=Stage: 'Total Eclipse' by the Chelsea |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Clive | last=Barnes |date=February 25, 1974 |access-date=February 28, 2020 |url-access=subscription}} Macbeth, In the Boom Boom Room, Cracks, Professional Resident Company, What Every Woman Knows, The Father, King Lear, Power Failure and, in mid-1972, appeared in a Jean Cocteau double bill, Orphée and The Human Voice, at the Jean Cocteau Theater at 43 Bond Street.{{cite news| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xOYCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22And+They+Put+Handcuffs+on+the+Flowers%22+nyc+%22christopher+lloyd%22&pg=PA13| title=In and Around Town: Theater > Off and Off-Off Broadway > Current| magazine=New York| page=13| date=August 14, 1972| editor-first=Ruth| editor-last=Gilbert}}
Lloyd returned to Broadway for the musical Happy End. He performed in Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Possessed at Yale Repertory Theater,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/12/archives/stage-the-possessed-clear-vision-of-torment-the-cast.html |title=Stage: 'The Possessed,' Clear Vision of Torment |author-link=Mel Gussow |first=Mel |last=Gussow |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 12, 1974 |access-date= October 22, 2013 |url-access=subscription}} and in Jay Broad's premiere of White Pelican at the P.A.F. Playhouse in Huntington Station, New York, on Long Island.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/25/archives/new-jersey-opinion-new-lines-old-trouper.html |title=New Lines, Old Trouper |first=Barbara |last=Delatiner |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 25, 1976 |access-date=October 22, 2013 |url-access=subscription}}
In 1977, he said of his training at the Neighborhood Playhouse under Meisner, "My work up to then had been very uneven. I would be good one night, dull the next. Meisner made me aware of how to be consistent in using the best that I have to offer. But I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/24/archives/new-face-christopher-lloyd-a-real-happy-end.html |title=New Face: Christopher Lloyd; A Real 'Happy End' |first=Robert |last=Berkvist |date=June 24, 1977 |access-date=February 28, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |url-access=subscription}}
His first film role was psychiatric patient Max Taber in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), alongside future co-star Danny DeVito.{{cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/christopher-lloyd-on-playing-a-vampire-a-taxi-driver-1798234109|title=Christopher Lloyd on playing a vampire, a taxi driver, a toon, and more |website=The A.V. Club |date=October 12, 2012 |access-date=February 28, 2020 |last=Harris |first=Will |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025064038/http://www.avclub.com/articles/random-roles-christopher-lloyd%2C86582/ }} He 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. In 1985, he appeared in the pilot episode of Street Hawk. The following year, he played the reviled Professor B.O. Beanes on the television series Amazing Stories. Other roles include Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) (on suggestion of fellow actor and friend Leonard Nimoy), Professor Plum in Clue (1985), Professor Dimple in an episode of Road to Avonlea (for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series), the villain Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Merlock the Sorcerer in DuckTales the Movie (1990), Switchblade Sam in Dennis the Menace (1993), Zoltan in Radioland Murders (1994), and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993).
Lloyd portrayed the star character in the adventure game Toonstruck, released in November 1996. In 1999, he was reunited onscreen with Michael J. Fox in an episode of Spin City entitled "Back to the Future IV — Judgment Day", in which Lloyd plays Owen Kingston, the former mentor of Fox's character, Mike Flaherty, who stopped by City Hall to see Kingston, only to proclaim himself God. That same year, Lloyd starred in the film remake of the 1960s series My Favorite Martian. He starred on the television series Deadly Games in the mid-1990s and was a regular on the sitcom Stacked in the mid-2000s. In 2003, he guest-starred in three of the 13 produced episodes of Tremors: The Series as the character Cletus Poffenburger. In November 2007, 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. He 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.{{cite news |last1=Morgan |first1=Terry |title=Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol |url=https://variety.com/2008/legit/markets-festivals/charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol-1200472622/ |magazine=Variety |access-date=February 28, 2020 |date=December 29, 2008}} In 2009, he appeared in a comedic trailer for a faux horror film version of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory entitled Gobstopper, in which he played Willy Wonka as a horror film-style villain.{{cite web |url=http://gobstoppermovie.com/ |title=Cast & Crew |website=GobstopperMovie.com |access-date=October 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321002620/http://www.gobstoppermovie.com/cast.html |archive-date=March 21, 2009}}
In 2010, the Vermont-based Weston Playhouse, of which Lloyd's brother Sam was an active member, asked if there was a role Lloyd would be interested in taking on. Lloyd chose Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, which played at Weston and at other venues throughout Vermont that fall.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/theater/26lloyd.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 | title=Christopher Lloyd stars in 'Death of a Salesman' |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=September 8, 2010 |last=Itzkoff |first=Dave |date=August 25, 2010 |url-access=subscription}} Also that September, he reprised his role as Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in Back to the Future: The Game, an episodic adventure game series developed by Telltale Games.{{cite news | url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2010/08/telltale-games-times-back-to-the-future-project/1 |title=Telltale Games times 'Back to the Future' project |first=Mike |last=Snider |date=September 1, 2010 |access-date=September 1, 2010 |newspaper=USA Today }} That same month, the production company 3D Entertainment Films announced Lloyd would star as an eccentric professor who with his lab assistant explore the various dimensions in Time, the Fourth Dimension, an approximately 45-minute Imax 3D film that was planned for release in 2012.{{cite press release |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/christopher-lloyd-is-back-in-time-the-fourth-dimension-a-new-imax-theatre-film-103718234.html |title=Christopher Lloyd is Back in 'Time, the Fourth Dimension', a New IMAX Theatre Film |publisher=3D Entertainment Films |date=September 24, 2010 |via=PR Newswire |access-date=July 26, 2020 |archive-date=September 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928121422/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/christopher-lloyd-is-back-in-time-the-fourth-dimension-a-new-imax-theatre-film-103718234.html |url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2010/film/news/christopher-lloyd-goes-back-in-time-1118024582/ |title=Christopher Lloyd goes back in 'Time' |date=September 24, 2010 |first=Dave |last=McNary |magazine=Variety |access-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200727000025/https://variety.com/2010/film/news/christopher-lloyd-goes-back-in-time-1118024582/ |url-status=live}}
On January 21, 2011, he appeared in "The Firefly" episode of the J. J. Abrams television series Fringe as Roscoe Joyce.{{cite web | url=https://ew.com/article/2011/01/21/fringe-firefly-season-3-episode-10/| title=The return of 'Fringe' recap: 'The Firefly' glowed with love, loss, and Christopher Lloyd |first=Ken |last=Tucker |date=January 21, 2011 |access-date=January 25, 2011 | magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} That August, he reprised the role of Dr. Emmett Brown (from Back to the Future) as part of an advertising campaign for Garbarino,{{cite news |url=http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/454208/Tucumanos/Campa%C3%B1a-publicitaria-Doc-Emmet-Brown-exito-YouTube.html |title=Campaña publicitaria del Doc Emmet Brown es un éxito en YouTube |trans-title=Advertising campaign with "Doc" Emmett Brown is a hit on YouTube |newspaper=La Gaceta |location=Tucumán, Argentina |date=September 8, 2011 |access-date=June 14, 2012}} an Argentine appliance company, and also as part of Nike's "Back For the Future" campaign for the benefit of The Michael J. Fox Foundation. In 2012 and 2013, Lloyd voiced Doc Brown in two episodes of Robot Chicken. He was a guest star on the 100th episode of the USA Network sitcom Psych as Martin Khan in 2013.
In May 2013, 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/theater/reviews/the-caucasian-chalk-circle-at-classic-stage-company.html |title=A Little Groucho Marx, a Little King Solomon |last=Isherwood |first=Charles |date=May 30, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=February 28, 2020 |url-access=subscription}}
On the October 21, 2015, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Lloyd and Michael J. Fox appeared in a Back to the Future skit to commemorate the date in the second installment of the film trilogy.{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156689301233374 |title=Marty McFly & Doc Brown Visit Jimmy Kimmel Live |website=Facebook |date=October 21, 2015 |access-date= September 8, 2019}}
In May 2018, 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. He is set to reprise the role in an episode of its spin-off, The Conners, airing May 4, 2022.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2022/04/the-conners-christopher-lloyd-lou-1235002433/ |title='The Conners': Christopher Lloyd To Reprise 'Roseanne' Character Lou In ABC Spinoff |website=Deadline Hollywood |first=Rosy |last=Cordero |date=April 14, 2022 |access-date=April 14, 2022}} In late 2019, he provided the voice of Xehanort in the "Re Mind" downloadable content of Kingdom Hearts III, taking over the role from the late Leonard Nimoy and Rutger Hauer, and reprised the role in the 2020 video game Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory.
By July 2020, Lloyd was cast as The Alchemist in Man & Witch, a family-friendly fantasy-adventure film directed by Rob Margolies, with Jim Henson's Creature Shop set to create the puppets for the film.{{cite magazine |title='NeverEnding Story' Queen Tami Stronach to Star in Fantasy Film With Sean Astin, Christopher Lloyd (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/neverending-story-queen-tami-stronach-star-fantasy-man-witch-1302386/ |access-date=March 18, 2022 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en}}
In March 2021, Lloyd played the best friend of William Shatner in the romantic comedy film Senior Moment, also starring Jean Smart.{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/christopher-lloyd-william-shatner-senior-moment-1202028883/ |title=Christopher Lloyd Joins William Shatner in Comedy 'Senior Moment' (EXCLUSIVE) |work=Variety |date=April 12, 2017 }}
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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.{{cite web |last=Pulliam-Moore |first=Charles |date=September 3, 2021 |title=Rick and Morty…This Is Heavy |url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/rick-and-morty-this-is-heavy-1847613393 |access-date=September 3, 2021 |website=Gizmodo}}{{cite web |url=https://screenrant.com/rick-morty-live-action-christopher-lloyd-pickle-video |title=New Rick & Morty Live-Action Clip Has Christopher Lloyd Eat a Pickle |last=Guttmann |first=Graeme |date=September 5, 2021 |access-date=September 5, 2021 |website=Screen Rant}} Addressing his own and original voice actor Justin Roiland's portrayals of Sanchez compared to Doc Brown, Lloyd stated that "he felt like Doc and Rick were like two brothers that took different paths."{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/pida3l/i_am_living_for_these_rick_and_morty_liveaction/hbordqz |title=Paul B. Cummings: "Chris said to me that he felt like Doc and Rick were like two brothers that took different paths. I thought that was a very interesting thing for him to say." |last=Cummings |first=Paul B. |date=September 5, 2021 |website=r/rickandmorty |access-date=September 5, 2021}}
In March 2022, Lloyd appeared in a promotion for the time travel film The Adam Project along with two of its stars, Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo.{{cite web |last=Walsh |first=Michael |date=March 11, 2022 |title=Christopher Lloyd Shares a Time PSA with Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo |url=https://nerdist.com/article/christopher-lloyd-time-psa-ryan-reynolds-mark-ruffalo-the-adam-project/ |website=Nerdist}}
In April 2022, it was announced that Lloyd would star in Spirit Halloween: The Movie, a film produced in partnership with the Spirit Halloween retailer.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/spirit-halloween-movie-christopher-lloyd-1235230046/|title=Spirit Halloween Store Film in the Works Starring Christopher Lloyd, Rachael Leigh Cook (Exclusive)|last=Yossman|first=K.J.|date=April 11, 2022|website=Variety|access-date=April 12, 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/spirit-halloween-movie-christopher-lloyd-rachael-leigh-cook |title=Christopher Lloyd to Star in Movie Based On Spirit Halloween Store |last=Plant |first=Logan |date=April 11, 2022 |website=IGN |access-date=April 12, 2022}} He 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.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/spirit-halloween-movie-trailer-1235330745/|title='Spirit Halloween: The Movie' Brings Costume Store to Life in Spooky Trailer|last=Panaligan|first=EJ|date=August 1, 2022|website=Variety|access-date=August 2, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/spirit-halloween-movie-images-plot-1235271762/|title='Spirit Halloween': First Photos, Plot Details From Movie Inspired by Costume Store (Exclusive)|last=Yossman|first=K.J.|date=May 20, 2022|website=Variety|access-date=August 4, 2022}} The film was released on video-on-demand (VOD) on October 11, 2022.{{cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/spirit-halloween-the-movie-teaser-christopher-lloyd-1849355470|title=Spirit Halloween: The Movie Is Real, and Has the Teaser to Prove It|last=Eddy|first=Cheryl|date=August 1, 2022|website=Gizmodo|access-date=August 2, 2022}}
In April 2023, Lloyd guest starred in an episode of the third season of The Mandalorian, portraying the role of Commissioner Helgait.{{cite magazine |last1=Kit |first1=Borys |last2=Couch |first2=Aaron |title='Star Wars': Christopher Lloyd Joins 'The Mandalorian' Season 3 (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mandalorian-season-3-casts-christopher-lloyd-1235112715/ |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=March 18, 2022 |date=March 18, 2022}} In June 2023, Lloyd was announced to be starring in the live-action Knuckles series, which premiered in April 2024.{{Cite web |last=Petski|first=Denise|date=June 14, 2023|title=Cary Elwes, Stockard Channing, Christopher Lloyd, Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel Join 'Sonic The Hedgehog' Spinoff Series 'Knuckles'|url=https://deadline.com/2023/06/cary-elwes-stockard-channing-christopher-lloyd-paul-scheer-rob-huebel-sonic-the-hedgehog-spinoff-knuckles-1235417410/|access-date=June 14, 2023|website=Deadline Hollywood}}
Personal life
Lloyd married Catharine Dallas Dixon Boyd on June 6, 1959.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/06/07/archives/catharine-boyd-attended-by-six-at-hermarriage-church-in-westport-is.html |title=Catharine Boyd Attended by Six At Her Marriage |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 7, 1959 |access-date=October 22, 2013 |url-access=subscription}} They divorced in 1971.{{cite news |date=September 25, 2002 |url= https://apnews.com/16b9089614a10f3f4fe0c15ecd354eb6|title=Ex-wife sues actor Lloyd for unpaid alimony |website=Associated Press |archive-date=June 21, 2020 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20200621191659/https://apnews.com/16b9089614a10f3f4fe0c15ecd354eb6 |url-status=live |quote=Catherine Boyd Lloyd of Manhattan says ... related to their 1971 divorce after 12 years of marriage. Lloyd ... is now married to screenwriter Jane Walker Wood.}} He married actress Kay Tornborg in 1974, divorcing her circa 1987.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-22-tm-14729-story.html |title=Always on Sunday: The Making of a Flea-Market Fanatic |first=Bevin |last=Hillier |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=March 22, 1987 |archive-date=June 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621195104/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-22-tm-14729-story.html |url-status=live |quote=In 1974 she married actor Christopher Lloyd.... (They are now in the process of getting a divorce.)}} Lloyd's third marriage, to Carol Ann Vanek, had lasted more than two years when they were in the process of divorce in July 1991.{{cite journal |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20115481,00.html |title=Passages |journal=People |date=July 8, 1991 |first=J. D. |last=Podolsky |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005822/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20115481,00.html |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |quote=Actor Christopher Lloyd ... and his wife, homemaker Carol Ann Vanek Lloyd, are divorcing after more than two years of marriage...}} His fourth marriage, to screenwriter Jane Walker Wood, lasted from 1992 to 2005.
In 2016, he married Lisa Loiacono,{{cite news |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/back-to-the-future-cast-where-are-they-now/lea-thompson-lorraine-baines/ |title='Back to the Future' Cast: Where Are They Now? |magazine=US Weekly |last=Nardino |first=Meredith |date=July 3, 2021 |access-date=July 26, 2021 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207204341/https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/back-to-the-future-cast-where-are-they-now/lea-thompson-lorraine-baines/ |archive-date=February 7, 2021}} who was Lloyd's real estate agent when he sold his house in Montecito, California, in 2012.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-hotprop-christopher-lloyd-20120323-story.html |title=Actor Christopher Lloyd lists Montecito home at $6.45 million |first=Lauren |last=Beale |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=March 23, 2012 |access-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-date=February 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224211410/http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-hotprop-christopher-lloyd-20120323-story.html |url-status=live}} His former house on that lot was destroyed in the Tea Fire of November 2008.{{cite news |title=Stars' Homes Destroyed & Threatened By Montecito Fire |work=Access Hollywood | date= November 14, 2008 |url=https://www.accessonline.com/articles/stars-homes-destroyed-threatened-by-montecito-fire-66244| access-date=February 28, 2020 |archive-date=August 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814052213/http://www.accesshollywood.com/stars-homes-destroyed-and-threatened-by-montecito-fire_article_12191 |url-status=live}}
Lloyd's philanthropist mother, Ruth Lapham Lloyd, died in 1984 at age 88. Her other surviving children were Donald L. Mygatt (who died in 2003), Antoinette L. Mygatt Lucas, Samuel Lloyd III (who later died in 2017), Ruth Lloyd Scott, Ax Lloyd, and Adele L. Kinney.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/12/obituaries/ruth-lapham-lloyd-88-dies-aided-metropolitan-museum.html |title=Ruth Lapham Lloyd, 88, Dies; Aided Metropolitan Museum |date=October 12, 1984 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=October 22, 2013}} Lloyd's nephew, Sam Lloyd (1963–2020), was known for playing lawyer Ted Buckland on Scrubs.
Filmography
= Film =
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
| 1976
| data-sort-value="Adams Chronicles, The" | The Adams Chronicles | Episode: "Chapter VIII: John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State" |
| rowspan="2"|1978
| Lacy and the Mississippi Queen | Jennings |
| data-sort-value="Word, The" | The Word
| Hans Bogardus |
| 1978–1979
| Arnold Scully / Vincent Carew | 2 episodes |
| 1978–1983
| Taxi | Reverend Jim Ignatowski | 84 episodes |
| 1979
| Stunt Seven a.k.a. The Fantastic Seven | Skip Hartman | Television film{{cite web |title=Stunt Seven |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/479864/stunt-seven |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624211300/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/479864/Stunt-Seven/ |archive-date=June 24, 2017 |access-date=July 26, 2020 |website=Turner Classic Movies}}{{cite web |title=The Fantastic Seven (1979) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7742582d |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508064554/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7742582d |archive-date=May 8, 2020 |access-date=July 26, 2020 |website=British Film Institute}} |
| rowspan="3"|1982
| The Calico Kid | 3 episodes |
| American Playhouse
| Paul | Episode: "Pilgrim, Farewell" |
| Money on the Side
| Sergeant Stampone | Television film |
| 1983
| September Gun | Jack Brian |
| rowspan="3"|1984
| Cheers | Phillip Semenko | 2 episodes |
| Old Friends
| Jerry Forbes |
| data-sort-value="Cowboy and the Ballerina, The" | The Cowboy and the Ballerina
| Woody |
| 1985
| Anthony Corrido | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1986
| Prof. Beanes | Episode: "Go to the Head of the Class" |
| 1987
| Tales from the Hollywood Hills: | Pat Hobby | Television film |
| 1990
| data-sort-value="Earth Day Special, The" | The Earth Day Special | Television specialA Matter of Time: The Unauthorized Back to the Future Lexicon p. 300 |
| 1991–1992
| Back to the Future: The Animated Series | Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown | Live action; 26 episodes |
| rowspan="3"|1992
| William "Weasel" Weasler | Television film |
| Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
| Frank Iarossi | Television film |
| Road to Avonlea
| Alistair Dimple | Episode: "Another Point of View" |
| 1994
| Mr. Hunch | Television film |
| rowspan="2"|1995
| Episode: "Fly Paper" |
| Rent-a-Kid
| Lawrence 'Larry' Kayvey | Television film |
| 1995–1996
| Sebastian Jackal / | 13 episodes |
| 1996
| data-sort-value="Right to Remain Silent, The" | The Right to Remain Silent | Johnny Benjamin | Television film |
| rowspan="2"|1997
| Aaron Quicksilver | Television film |
| Angels in the Endzone
| Al "The Boss" Angel | Television film |
| 1998
| data-sort-value="Ransom of Red Chief, The" | The Ransom of Red Chief | Sam Howard |
| rowspan="3"|1999
| Owen Kingston | Episode: "Back to the Future IV" |
| Alice in Wonderland
| Television film |
| It Came from the Sky
| Jarvis Moody | Television film |
| rowspan="4"|2001
| data-sort-value="Tick, The" | The Tick | Mr. Fishladder | Uncredited |
| Wit
| Dr. Harvey Kelekian | Television film |
| Chasing Destiny
| Jet James | Television film |
| When Good Ghouls Go Bad
| Uncle Fred Walker | Television film |
| 2002–present
| The Hacker |
| rowspan="2"|2002
| Walter | Episode: "Family Reunion" |
| data-sort-value="Big Time, The" | The Big Time
| Doc Powers | Television film |
| rowspan="2"|2003
| Ed | Burt Kiffle | Episode: "The Move" |
| Tremors
| Dr. Cletus Poffenberger | 3 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2004
| data-sort-value="Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, The" | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | Snail | Voice, episode: "Dumb Luck" |
| I Dream
| Prof. Toone | 13 episodes |
| 2004–2005
| Lou Russo | 11 episodes |
| rowspan="3"|2005
| data-sort-value="West Wing, The" | The West Wing | Prof. Lawrence Lessig | Episode: "The Wake Up Call" |
| King of the Hill
| Smitty | Voice, episode: "Care-Takin' Care of Business" |
| Detectives
| Anderson in Launderette | Television film |
| 2005–2006
| Stacked | Harold March | 19 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2006
| Everett Neely | Episode: "Valerie on the Stairs" |
| data-sort-value="Perfect Day, A" | A Perfect Day
| Michael | Television film |
| 2007
| Numbers | Ross Moore | Episode: "Graphic" |
| rowspan="2"|2008
| Episode: "Camelot" |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent
| Carmine | Episode: "Vanishing Act" |
| rowspan="2"|2009
| Meteor | Prof. Daniel Lehman | 2 episodes |
| Knights of Bloodsteel
| Tesselink | 2 episodes |
| 2010
| Chuck | Dr. Leo Dreyfus | Episode: "Chuck versus the Tooth" |
| rowspan="2"|2011
| Fringe | Roscoe Joyce | Episode: "The Firefly" |
| Family Practice
| Robert Passion Foote | Unaired pilot |
| 2011–2013
| Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown / | Voice, 2 episodes |
| rowspan="3" | 2012
| Dorothy and the Witches of Oz | Television film |
| R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
| Grandpa | Episode: "Grampires: Part 1" |
| Anything But Christmas
| Harry |
| rowspan="2" | 2013
| Dennis Powers | Episode: " Credit Where Credit Is Due" |
| Psych
| Martin Kahn | Episode: "100 Clues" |
| rowspan="4" | 2014
| data-sort-value="Michael J. Fox Show, The" | The Michael J. Fox Show | Principal McTavish | Episode: "Health" |
| Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys
| Mayor Akerman | Television film |
| Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse
| Harry Setag | Television film |
| Over the Garden Wall
| The Woodsman |
| 2014–2015
| Professor Hargraves | 12 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2015
| data-sort-value="Simpsons, The" | The Simpsons | Rev. Jim Ignatowski | Voice, episode: "My Fare Lady" |
| Just in Time for Christmas
| Grandpa Bob |
| 2016
| data-sort-value="Big Bang Theory, The" | The Big Bang Theory | Theodore | Episode: "The Property Division Collision" |
| 2017–2018
| The Missionary / Zalmon Shaw | 3 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2018
| Roseanne | Lou | Episode: "No Country for Old Women" |
| Guess Who Died
| Mort | Unaired pilot |
| rowspan="2" |2019
| A.P. Bio | Melvin | Episode: "Melvin" |
| Big City Greens
| Voice, episode: "Green Christmas" |
| rowspan="2" |2020
| Self | Episode: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" |
| NCIS
| Joseph "Joe" Smith | Episode: "The Arizona" |
| 2021
| Next Stop, Christmas | Train Conductor | Hallmark television film |
| 2022
| data-sort-value="Conners, The" | The Conners | Lou | Episode: "The Best Laid Plans, A Contrabassoon and A Sinking Feeling" |
| rowspan="2" | 2023
| data-sort-value="Mandalorian, The" | The Mandalorian | Commissioner Helgait | Episode: "Chapter 22: Guns for Hire" |
| data-sort-value="Million Little Things, A" | A Million Little Things
| Himself | Episode: "Father's Day" |
| rowspan="2" | 2024
| Knuckles | Pachacamac | Voice, 2 episodes{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/06/cary-elwes-stockard-channing-christopher-lloyd-paul-scheer-rob-huebel-sonic-the-hedgehog-spinoff-knuckles-1235417410/|title=Cary Elwes, Stockard Channing, Christopher Lloyd, Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel Join 'Sonic The Hedgehog' Spinoff Series 'Knuckles'|website=Deadline|first=Denise|last=Petski|date=June 14, 2023|access-date=June 14, 2023}} |
| Hacks
| Larry Arbuckle | Episode: "The Deborah Vance Christmas Spectacular" |
| 2025
| Everybody's Live with John Mulaney | Willy Loman / Himself | Episode: "Lending People Money" |
| 2025
| {{TBA}} |
= Theatre =
| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! Venue | |||
| 1961 | And They Put Handcuffs on Flowers | New York | |
| 1969 | Red, White and Maddox | Bombardier | Cort Theatre, Broadway |
| rowspan="2"|1973 | Kaspar | Kaspar | Chelsea Theater Center, Off-Broadway |
| The Seagull | Konstantin Treplev | Roundabout Stage II, Off-Broadway | |
| rowspan="3"|1974 | Macbeth | Banquo / Cathness | Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Off-Broadway |
| Total Eclipse | Verlaine | Chelsea Theater Center, Off-Broadway | |
| In the Boom Boom Room | Al | The Public Theater, Off-Broadway | |
| 1977 | Happy End | Bill Cracker | Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway |
| 1990 | data-sort-value="Father, The" | The Father | Captain Lassen | American Repertory Theater, Massachusetts |
| 1998 | Waiting for Godot | Pozzo | CSC Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2001 | data-sort-value="Unexpected Man, The" | The Unexpected Man | Parsky | Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles |
| rowspan="2" |2002 | Morning's at Seven | Carl Bolton | Broadway, Broadway |
| Twelfth Night | Malvolio | Delacorte Theatre, Off-Broadway | |
| 2003 | Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted | Dalton Trumbo | Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2008 | data-sort-value="Christmas Carol, A" | A Christmas Carol | Scrooge | Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles |
| 2010 | Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman | Weston Playhouse, Vermont |
| 2013 | data-sort-value="Caucasian Chalk Circle, The" | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | The Singer / Azdak | CSC Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2018 | Our Town | Stage Manager | Weston Playhouse, Vermont |
| 2018 | Pound | Ezra Pound | Theatre Row, Off-Broadway |
| 2021 | King Lear | King Lear | New Spruce Theater, Lenox, Massachusetts |
=Video games=
= Music videos =
| class="wikitable" |
| style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
! Year ! Artist ! Title ! Role |
| 1985
| align="left"| "The Power of Love" | rowspan="2" | Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown |
| 2008
|O'Neal McKnight |"Check Your Coat" |
=Other=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1990
| Back to the Future: The Pinball | rowspan="3" | Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown |
| 1991
| Back to the Future: The Ride | rowspan="2" | Simulator ride |
| 2008
| data-sort-value="Simpsons Ride, The" | The Simpsons Ride |
Awards
References
{{Reflist}}
Further reading
- {{Cite book |last=Napoleon |first=Davi |author-link=Davi Napoleon |year=1991 |title=Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater |title-link=Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater |publisher=Iowa State University Press |isbn=978-0-8138-1713-2}} Contains discussion of his early work Off-Broadway, including the production of Happy End at the Chelsea Theater Center, and on Broadway, Kaspar and Total Eclipse.
External links
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