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- His film career began in the Cuckoo's Nest. A lot of actors pay their dues with small roles in forgettable movies before getting their break, but in that sense Christopher Lloyd was lucky.
- He refused to Shoot the Sun Down. Some aspiring actors are willing to endure anything to get on the big screen. Apparently, even when he was still starting out, Lloyd would only deal with so much nonsense.
- Taxi steered Lloyd's career in a new direction. Before working on Taxi, Christopher Lloyd wanted nothing to do with with sitcoms. He told Pop Goes the Culture TV after moving to Los Angeles he told his agents not to bother submitting his names to any sitcoms.
- He loved playing a Klingon. While you might not find him signing autographs at many Star Trek conventions, that doesn't mean Christopher Lloyd didn't have a ball ordering the death of Captain Kirk's son in 1984's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
- He Was Considered to Play Jack Torrance in The Shining
- He Almost Didn’T Play Doc Brown
- His Ancestors Came Over to The Us on The Mayflower
- His California Home Was Destroyed in A Fire in 2008
- His Grandfather Co-Founded The Texaco Oil Company
- Bruno Kirby Gave Lloyd His Godfather Part II Fat Suit to Play Uncle Fester
- He Once Went Ahead with A Play Despite Almost Breaking A Leg The Day Before
- He Hates Doing Talk Shows and Considers Himself “Very Shy”
- He Based His Portrayal of Doc Brown on Albert Einstein and Leopold Stokowski
- His Dream Role Would Be Don Quixote
It’s rumoured that Lloyd was in the running for the role of Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror, The Shining. While, at first, it’s hard to imagine anyone but Jack Nicholson as the film’s lead, Lloyd’s knack for playing complex characters might have actually worked well with Jack Torrance’s tortured persona. It seems that Stephen King, a...
Lloyd recently revealed that he almost turned down the chance to play Doc Brown in Back to the Future. “I had just accepted a role in a play – a great role – in a play in New York, and that’s where I was gonna go. So I kind of dismissed this ‘Back to the Future’script,” he said on Your Morning in 2018. “I allowed [the script] to slip into the trash...
Lloyd is a descendant of passengers of the Mayflower, the English ship that transported Puritan settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Specifically, Lloyd can trace his ancestry back to passenger John Howland. According to the Associated Press, Howland worked as the servant of John Carver, the first governor of the New Plymouth Colony. Ho...
Tragedy struck in 2008 when Lloyd’s California home was destroyed in the Montecito Tea Fire. Lloyd was filming in Vancouver at the time of the disaster, but rushed back home once he heard his house had been affected. The ‘Tea Fire’ started at the Tea Garden Estate and ripped through an area full of celebrity homes. Oprah Winfrey, Michael Douglas, R...
Lloyd’s maternal grandfather co-founded the Texaco oil company. Today, Texaco is one of the largest oil businesses in the world. Texaco was founded in Beaumont, Texas in 1901 by Joseph S Cullinan, Thomas J Donoghue, Walter Benona Sharp, Arnold Schlaet – and Lewis Lapham, Lloyd’s grandfather. The venture was hugely successful. In 1928 Texaco became ...
Lloyd may have been much leaner than the original Uncle Fester, but that wasn’t going to stop him from playing Gomez Addams’ rotund brother. Underneath Fester’s iconic black coat, Lloyd concealed a fat suit gifted to him by Bruno Kirby, who had used the very same padding in The Godfather Part II. Kirby had used the suit to appear bulkier in his rol...
In 1977, Lloyd starred alongside Meryl Streep in a Broadway production of the musical Happy End. Disaster struckwhen Lloyd almost broke his leg the day before the play was supposed to open. The budding actor had ripped two ligaments in his right leg and was reduced to hobbling around on crutches. While, ordinarily, his understudy would have stepped...
Lloyd’s 1990 interview with Terry Wogan is probably up there with one of the most awkward exchanges on TV. It’s painful to watch Lloyd offer monosyllabic answers to Wogan’s repeated questions as Mary Steenburgen desperately tries to keep the conversation going. Speaking to The Guardian in 2010, Lloyd put down the cringeworthy interview to the simpl...
It makes sense that Lloyd turned to Albert Einstein when it came to figuring out how best to portray the mad but brilliant Doc Brown. As well as drawing on Einstein’s eccentricity, Lloyd’s frizzy white hair in the film was also inspired by the physicist’s iconic wispy locks. Lloyd also drew on the conductor Leopold Stowoski when it came to bringing...
Lloyd has played a great variety of roles in his time – from mad scientist Doc Brown to Russian Svengali Rasputin. But the veteran actor recently revealed that his dream would be to play Don Quixote. Speaking to Under the Radar in 2015, Lloyd confessed: “This is kind of a fantasy I think about. If somebody came to me and said, “How would you like t...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Christopher Lloyd is an American actor best known for his role as the eccentric Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the successful 'Back to the Future' film franchise.
May 19, 2023 · May 19th 2023, 9:22am. Where Christopher Lloyd wants to go, he may not need roads, but he’ll need a whole lot of people on board. Christopher Lloyd has announced that he is ready to go back...
Oct 22, 2022 · StarTrek.com. Thanks to his storied career, Christopher Lloyd is many things to many people. To millions of TV viewers, he’s Reverend Jim Ignatowski from Taxi. Moviegoers around the globe remember his performances as Doc Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Uncle Fester in the Addams Family features.
Aug 26, 2021 · LENOX, Mass. — At 5 p.m., the late-summer sun blisters, 91 in the shade. Christopher Lloyd, who created a repository of outsized characters, strides across the stage under a copse of soaring spruce.
Christopher Lloyd, an actor whose performing credits include a wide variety of motion picture, television and theatrical roles, has been known to make magic himself. A two-time Emmy award winner for his role as the spaced-out Reverend Jim on television's "Taxi," Lloyd has captivated both critics and audiences alike with his winning portrayals ...
