Christopher Lloyd

Christopher Allen Lloyd is an American actor. He is known for portraying Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi. Lloyd also starred as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family. He earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance in Road to Avonlea.

About Christopher Lloyd in brief

Summary Christopher LloydChristopher Allen Lloyd is an American actor. He has appeared in theater productions, films, and television since 1961. Lloyd came to public attention in Northeastern theater productions during the 1960s and early 1970s. He is known for portraying Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi. Lloyd also starred as Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and its sequel Addams family Values. He earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance in Road to Avonlea, and won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in Twenty Bucks. Lloyd has done extensive voice work, including Merlock in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp and Grigori Rasputin in Anastasia. He also appeared in the Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall and the PBS Kids series Cyberchase, which earned him two further Emmy nominations.

Lloyd is a descendant of Mayflower passengers, including John Howland and Lewis Henry Lapham. Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938, in Stamford, Connecticut, and is the son of Ruth Lloyd, a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham, and her lawyer husband Samuel R. Lloyd Jr. His maternal grandfather was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company, and Lloyd is also a descendant. He is the youngest of three boys and four girls, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s. Lloyd has also been nominated for two Saturn Awards and a BIFA Award. He made 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.”