Christopher Lloyd Biography

Lloyd's first major motion picture role was as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. However, he may be most remembered for his roles as Reverend Jim Ignatowski, the ex-hippie cabbie on the TV sitcom Taxi, and the eccentric inventor Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy of movies.

Lloyd also played notable roles as Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Professor Dimple in an episode of Road to Avonlea, the villain Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family.

Lloyd also appeared as the lead character in the computer game Toonstruck. He performs the voice of The Hacker on the children's math mystery cartoon Cyberchase (January 2002-present) on PBS Kids GO!. In 1999, Lloyd starred in the movie It Came From the Sky with Yasmine Bleeth. On one episode of Malcolm in the Middle, he plays Malcolm's paternal grandfather. He portrayed the Constitutionalist Lawrence Lessig (who in real life is twenty-three years younger than Lloyd) in an episode of the sixth season of the West Wing.

Many of Lloyd's roles seem to lean toward comic relief, whether as hyper characters like Reverend Jim or Doc Brown, or as uptight conservatives such as in The Dream Team and Mr. Mom. Lloyd has showed considerable range as a dramatic actor, however, in movies such as Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead as a leprous projectionist, and Wit.

Lloyd rarely appears in public or gives interviews (he gave a rare interview on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Family Films in 2005). Some of his best friends, co-stars and fans who meet him describe him as a very shy and quiet man.Lloyd's most recent role was on the Fox sitcom Stacked, opposite Pamela Anderson; however, it was cancelled during the second season.

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• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: What idiot dressed you in that outfit?
  2. Marty McFly: You did.
  From Back to the Future Part III. Submitted by Joe N (20 days ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: I'm sure in 1985 plutonium is in every corner drug store, but in 1955, its a little hard to come by! I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you're stuck here
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Kevin D (2 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Oh my god. They found me; I don't know how but they found me. RUN FOR IT, MARTY!
  2. Marty McFly: Who? Who?
  3. Marty McFly: What do you think? The Libyans!
  4. Marty McFly: HOLY SHIT!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Matt N (4 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Is there a problem with Earth's gravitational pull in the future? Why is everything so heavy?
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Alexander H (5 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: [running out of the room] 1.21 gigawatts!
  From Back to the Future Part II. Submitted by David F (6 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: When this thing gets up to 88 mph, you're gonna see some serious s***.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Aaron S (6 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: It means your future hasn't been written yet, no one's has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.
  From Back to the Future Part III. Submitted by Dann M (6 months ago)

• 1. Uncle Martin: My regular ship is in the shop for its mid-millenium tune-up.
  From My Favorite Martian. Submitted by Frances H (6 months ago)

• 1. Uncle Martin: Humans are really the amoebas of the universe.
  2. Tim O'Hara: This from a man who talks to his suit.
  From My Favorite Martian. Submitted by Frances H (6 months ago)

• 1. Uncle Martin: Martians use 100% of their brain capacity. Humans less than 10.
  2. Tim O'Hara: I think we use more than 10.
  3. Uncle Martin: Your astronauts pee in their space suits. Case closed!
  From My Favorite Martian. Submitted by Frances H (6 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Who's President of the United States in 1985?
  2. Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
  3. Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan?! The actor?! Ha! Then who's Vice President? Jerry Lewis?
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Tyler F (7 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Things have certainly changed around here. I remember when this was all farmland as far as the eye can see! Old Mr. Peabody owned all of this! He had this crazy idea of...breeding pine trees.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Andrew D (8 months ago)

• 1. Mr. Goodman: These piranhas spent eons in underground lakes and rivers.
  From Piranha 3DD. Submitted by John P (9 months ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: What about all that talk about screwing up future events? The space-time continuum?
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: Well, I figured, what the hell.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Matthew D (9 months ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: Hey, Doc. Where are you going now? Back to the future?
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: No, already been there.
  From Back to the Future Part III. Submitted by Matthew D (9 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: It's a very interesting story, future boy, but there's one thing that doesn't make sense, If a me of the future is now in the past, how could possibly know about it?
  2. Marty McFly: You sent me a letter.
  From Back to the Future Part III. Submitted by Matthew D (9 months ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: Hey, Doc. You'd better back up, we don't have enough road to get up to 88.
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we going we don't need roads.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Matthew D (10 months ago)

• 1. Charlie Wilcox: I WAS FROZEN TODAY.
  From Suburban Commando. Submitted by Pablo B (10 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Oh my God. They found me, I dont know how but they found me. Run for it Marty!
  2. Marty McFly: Who, who!?
  3. Dr. Emmett Brown: Who do you think!? The Libyans!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Zach S (10 months ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: Doc, you don't just walk into a store, and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: Course! From a group of Lybian Nationalists They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn I gave them a shiny bomb caseing full of used pinball machine parts!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by S.R. H (11 months ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Karen M (11 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: If you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Karen M (11 months ago)

• 1. Train Fireman: Is this a holdup?
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: No, it's a science experiment!
  From Back to the Future Part III. Submitted by Nicky S (12 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Alright then, Future Boy, whose president of the United States in 1985?
  2. Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
  3. Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor? Ha! Then whose vice president? Jerry Lewis?
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by S.R. H (12 months ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Tony T (12 months ago)

• 1. Maddy: We need your expertise Mr. Goodman.
  2. Mr. Goodman: Why?
  3. Maddy: We think they're back...
  From Piranha 3DD. Submitted by Corey R (12 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: You?ve got to come back with me!
  2. Marty McFly: Where?
  3. Dr. Emmett Brown: Back to the future!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Isabella M (12 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Catherine C (12 months ago)

• 1. Mr. Goodman: The piranhas could become confused. Then try to enter man made draining systems.
  From Piranha 3DD. Submitted by Arturo P (13 months ago)

• 1. Charlie Wilcox: I was frozen today!
  From Suburban Commando. Submitted by Austin G (13 months ago)

• 1. The Wizard of Oz: I thought this would never end, worst movie this year.
  From Dorothy and the Witches of Oz. Submitted by Jackie B (14 months ago)

• 1. Rasputin: Your Imperial Highness. Look what ten years has done to us: you a beautiful young flower and me a rotting corpse.
  2. Anastasia: That face!
  3. Rasputin: Last seen at a party like this one.
  4. Anastasia: A curse...
  From Anastasia. Submitted by Gavin C (14 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Great Scott!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Joaquin P (14 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
  From Back to the Future Part II. Submitted by Pancho P (15 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: No! It can't be; I just sent you back to the future!
  2. Marty McFly: No, I know; you *did* send me back to the future. But I'm back - I'm back *from* the future.
  3. Dr. Emmett Brown: Great Scott!
  From Back to the Future Part II. Submitted by Rocky F (16 months ago)

• 1. Prof. Plum: What are you afraid of, a fate worse than death?
  2. Mrs. Peacock: No, just death, isn't that enough?
  From Clue. Submitted by David E (16 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Nusfish K (16 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you gonna see some serious shit.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Michelle C (17 months ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: So what does this thing run on...gasoline?
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: No! It requires something with a little more kick...plutonium!
  3. Marty McFly: Wait, Doc, are you telling me...that this sucker is nuclear?
  4. Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no! The plutonium is required to generate the 1.21 jigawatts needed to power the car!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Augusta M (18 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: There's that word again. 'Heavy'. Is there something wrong in the future with the earth's gravitational pull?
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Augusta M (18 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: 1.21 GIGAWATTS!
  2. Marty McFly: What the hell is gigawatt?
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Pun C (19 months ago)

• 1. Mr. Goodman: This is no ordinary piranha! This species of piranha is two million years old!
  From Piranha 3-D. Submitted by Frank P (19 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Calvin J (19 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Great Scott!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Aaron L (20 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: 1.21 gigawatts!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Erik W (21 months ago)

• 1. Girl Scout: Is this made from real lemons?
  2. Wednesday Addams: Yes.
  3. Girl Scout: I only like all-natural foods and beverages, organically grown, with no preservatives. Are you sure they're real lemons?
  4. Wednesday Addams: Yes.
  5. Gordon Craven: Well, I'll tell you what. I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies. Do we have a deal?
  6. Gordon Craven: Are they made from real Girl Scouts?
  From The Addams Family. Submitted by Filipe M (21 months ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: Great scott.
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: I know, this is heavy.
  From Back to the Future Part III. Submitted by Cameron D (22 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: If my calculations are correct... when this baby hits 88 miles-per-hour... you're gonna see some serious (EXPLETIVE).
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Timothy M (22 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Oh my god. They found me. I don't know how but they found me!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Samuel A (23 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Zev B (23 months ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: You're not going to believe this. We have to go back to 1955.
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: I don' t believe it!
  From Back to the Future Part II. Submitted by Austin G (23 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Great Scott!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Iron W (24 months ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour, you're going to see some serious shit.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Benny B (2 years ago)

• 1. Charlie Wilcox: I was frozen today!
  From Suburban Commando. Submitted by dyl p (2 years ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE GIGAWATTS!!!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Bonnie S (2 years ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

• 1. Mr. Goodman: The piranha hunt in packs. The first bite draws blood, blood draws the pack.
  From Piranha 3-D. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: GREAT SCOTT!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by William H (2 years ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me "future boy", who is the president of the United States in 1985?
  2. Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
  3. Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?! Who's vice president? Jerry Lewis?!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Adam B (2 years ago)

• 1. Marty McFly: Wait a minute Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?
  2. Dr. Emmett Brown: Precisely!
  3. Marty McFly: Whoa this is heavy.
  4. Dr. Emmett Brown: There's that word again! Heavy! Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Paul Z (2 years ago)

• 1. Dr. Emmett Brown: 1.21 JIGA WATTS!!!!!
  2. Marty McFly: What the hell is a Jiga Watt?!
  From Back to the Future. Submitted by Tyler C (2 years ago)

• 1. Eddie Valiant: Holy smoke! He's a toon!
  2. Judge Doom: Surprised?!
  3. Eddie Valiant: Not really. That lame-brain freeway idea could only be cooked up by a toon.
  4. Judge Doom: Not just any toon!... ...Remember me Eddie?! When I killed your brother, I talked just... like.. THIS!!!
  From Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Submitted by Huy P (2 years ago)