Happy Birthday Christopher Lloyd!

Happy Birthday Christopher Lloyd!  He of course started out in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) as one of the patients, Max Taber.  One of his iconic tv roles was as Reverend Jim Ignatwoski, a cameo that turned into a series regular, on Taxi (1978-1983).  An early genre role was as Commander Kruge, the Klingon fighting against Kirk in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).  Then, he was John Bigboote in The Adventures of Bucakaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984).  He will of course be forever known in the charming, eccentric and brilliant Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future (1985).  Lloyd was also Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988).  Then, returned to play Doc Brown in Back to the Future Part II (1989).  Lloyd went back to the past, the Old West, and found Clara Clayton in Back to the Future III (1990).  One of the fun parts of playing Doc Brown was when he filmed several scenes for Back to the Future…The Ride in 1991.  Unfortunately, the ride closed in 2007.  He also starred as Doc Brown in the live action segments of the Back to the Future (1991-1992) animated series.  

Christopher Lloyd played Uncle Fester in the comedy adaptations, The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993).  A nice part was his role as Al the Boss Angel in Angels in the Outfield (1994).  Next, he played Uncle Martin, the Martian, in the adaptation of My Favorite Martian (1999).  Lloyd was also in another theme park attraction playing Cap’n Jack in the Haunted Lighthouse (2003) at Sea World and Busch Gardens theme parks.  It was directed by Joe Dante with a story by R.L. Stine.  In the Tremors (2003) tv series he played Dr. Cletus Poffenberger.  Lloyd starred in the Mick Harris directed episode of Masters of Horror, “Valerie on the Stairs” (2005).  He played the sorcerer Tesselink in the tv fantasy mini-series Knights of Bloodsteel (2009).  Lloyd played Mr. Carl Goodman in the horror comedies, Piranha 3D (2010) and the sequel Piranha 3DD (2012).  He reunited with his Back to the Future co-star as Principal McTavish in a 2014 episode of The Michael J. Fox Show.  Then, he played Kroenig in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). He was in SyFy’s series adapting the film, 12 Monkeys (2017-2018) playing Zalmon Shaw.  Happy Birthday Christopher Lloyd!