Christopher Lloyd (actor)

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Christopher Lloyd (2010)

Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938 in Stamford , Connecticut ) is an American actor . He was best known as Doc Brown in the film trilogy Back to the Future .

Life

Christopher Lloyd is the son of Ruth Lapham (the sister of former mayor of San Francisco , Roger Lapham ) and Samuel R. Lloyd. He has four sisters and two brothers. Lloyd graduated from Staples High School in Westport , Connecticut in 1958 .

After graduating from the Neighborhood Playhouse Theater in New York City , he played on Broadway, among others . Christopher Lloyd made his film debut in 1975 in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Jack Nicholson . Since then he has starred in over 200 films and television series. He usually played strange or crazy, but good-natured characters in comedies.

His most famous roles were those of Dr. "Doc" Emmett Lathrop Brown in the Back-to-the-Future trilogy and Uncle Fester in the hit comedy Addams Family in 1991 and the sequel The Addams Family in Crazy Tradition . He played the villain Judge Doom alongside Bob Hoskins in the 1988 comedy Wrong Play with Roger Rabbit . In 1996, Lloyd starred in the point-and-click adventure game Toonstruck . In 1999 he appeared as a white knight in the television film Alice in Wonderland . In the same year he took on a role as a mentor to his Back-to-the-Future colleague Michael J. Fox on an episode of the series Chaos City . In 2002, Lloyd made a guest appearance as Hal's father on the series Malcolm in the Middle .

In 2014, Lloyd made a highly acclaimed cameo as Doc Brown in the comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West .

Lloyd has had four marriages. From 1959 to 1971 he was married to Catherine Boyd, from 1975 to 1987 to Kay Tornborg, from 1988 to 1991 with Carol Ann Vanek and from 1992 to 2005 with Jane Walker Wood. His nephew Sam Lloyd (1963-2020) was also active as an actor and was known, among other things, through the television series Scrubs - The Beginners .

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • 1982: Emmy Award (for taxi )
  • 1983: Emmy Award (for taxi )
  • 1992: Emmy Award (for Road to Avonlea )

German voice actors

Lloyd has been dubbed by over forty different voice actors over the course of his career. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was Hartmut Neugebauer , the German voice. From the first part of Back to the Future the main speaker should be Ernst Jacobi , but the synchronization was too exhausting for him; so it was only with two films, Back to the Future and The Dream Team . The dubbing director Michael Nowka decided on Lutz Mackensy as the German voice for the following parts, because he happened to be in the dubbing studio. Mackensy has since dubbed Lloyd in most films. Other speakers were Hermann Ebeling , Joachim Höppner , Norbert Gescher and a few more. In I Am Not a Serial Killer , Lloyd was dubbed by Aart Veder .

Web links

Commons : Christopher Lloyd  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous index | Actor | Christopher Lloyd. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The media godparents: Lutz Mackensy - Interview with the voice of Stanley Tucci, Christopher Lloyd, Rowan Atkinson. March 16, 2018, accessed June 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lloyd, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lloyd, Christopher Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stamford , Connecticut , United States