# Who is Christopher Lloyd to you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570 "2015-04-02T00:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/1 "2015-04-02T00:45:13Z")
Character actor Christopher Lloyd has created some very memorable and iconic characters over the years. Who do you most identify him with. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/2 "2015-04-02T00:49:52Z")
You forgot James Caldwell. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/3 "2015-04-02T00:53:31Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > You forgot James Caldwell. Well I did include “Someone Else”. But you should just vote for Rev Jim in that case. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/4 "2015-04-02T00:56:55Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Well I did include “Someone Else”. But you should just vote for Rev Jim in that case. Before or after Harvard? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/5 "2015-04-02T00:57:48Z")
Always and forever Reverend Jim. _ **Bobby Wheeler:** [Bobby helps Jim fill out his test] Have you ever experienced loss of consciousness, hallucinations, dizzy spells, convulsive disorders, fainting, or periods of loss of memory? **Reverend Jim Ignatowski:** Hasn’t everyone? **Elaine O’Connor-Nardo:** Put no. **Bobby Wheeler:** Mental illness or narcotic addiction? **Reverend Jim Ignatowski:** That’s a tough choice. **Elaine O’Connor-Nardo:** Put no! **Bobby Wheeler:** OK, that’s it! You ready for the test. **Reverend Jim Ignatowski:** I thought that was the test!_ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/6 "2015-04-02T01:02:13Z")
Somewhere between Doc Brown and Reverend Jim, but I went with Doc because BTTF is one of my favouritest movies ever so it’s in my thoughts more frequently. He was also in a brief TV show that never got very far called _Best of the West_. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/7 "2015-04-02T01:03:14Z")
My first thought is Reverend Jim then I start to wonder if you mean the producer who’s name always confuses me and makes me think of Reverend Jim. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/8 "2015-04-02T01:08:34Z")
Doc Brown. I saw Taxi before BttF, but I was wee at the time, and didn’t quite build up the ability to connect actors, yet. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/9 "2015-04-02T01:10:33Z")
Reverend Jim. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/10 "2015-04-02T01:14:01Z")
the guy who doesn’t know what a yellow light means. And kills hostages to show that his intentions are sincere. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/11 "2015-04-02T01:15:55Z")
In descending order Doc. Brown Judge Doom Kruge ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/12 "2015-04-02T01:18:38Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Doc Brown. I saw Taxi before BttF, but I was wee at the time, and didn’t quite build up the ability to connect actors, yet. I saw _Legend Of The Lone Ranger_ before seeing him in anything else, but (a) that’s clearly not the right answer; and (b) c’mon, he’s Doc Brown. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/13 "2015-04-02T01:28:07Z")
Arthur’s boss in the season premiere of the live action teevee show **The Tick** from 2001. The greatest thing in television history. Only lasted nine episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/14 "2015-04-02T01:32:08Z")
I, or course, had to say Doc Brown, but it always bothers me that he gets little respect for his portrayal of Kruge in _Star Trek III_. For me he played the most realistic Klingon ever: A cold, sadistic, misogynistic, human & Vulcan hating, power craving killer\*!\* And in the ‘Someone Else’ category I always loved his early role as the lunatic Taber in \*One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest \*(in which he also starred alongside an early Danny DeVito). ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/15 "2015-04-02T01:32:22Z")
I still remember saying to myself “Rev Jim as a Klingon???” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/16 "2015-04-02T01:35:51Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > I, or course, had to say Doc Brown, but it always bothers me that he gets little respect for his portrayal of Kruge in _Star Trek III_. For me he played the most realistic Klingon ever: A cold, sadistic, misogynistic, human & Vulcan hating, power craving killer\*!\* And in the ‘Someone Else’ category I always loved his early role as the lunatic Taber in \*One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest \*(in which he also starred alongside an early Danny DeVito). Well I did include Taber as one of the 8 choices for just that reason. That and it was his first role. I agree he was an awesome Klingon, but he’ll always be … > [@kopek](#): > > I still remember saying to myself “Rev Jim as a Klingon???” … Rev Jim to me as I had the same moment during Star Trek III. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/17 "2015-04-02T02:03:14Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > My first thought is Reverend Jim then I start to wonder if you mean the producer who’s name always confuses me and makes me think of Reverend Jim. Me too. The writer/producer should have been an option. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/18 "2015-04-02T02:09:44Z")
Doc Brown, followed by Hacker, in that PBS kids’ show. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/19 "2015-04-02T03:02:56Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Somewhere between Doc Brown and Reverend Jim, but I went with Doc because BTTF is one of my favouritest movies ever so it’s in my thoughts more frequently. > > He was also in a brief TV show that never got very far called _Best of the West_. I put Jim (though I actually said Doc Brown’s name first). I think we balanced it out. I guess to me he’s “Christopher Lloyd,” but I feel like I have to say, “Doc Brown” for people who might not know whom I mean. (There’s another Christopher Lloyd who was a TV producer; and not everyone knows _Taxi_ I guess.) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570/20 "2015-04-02T03:03:38Z")
Other: The polite, well-dressed liquor store robber from _Twenty Bucks_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-christopher-lloyd-to-you/716570.md?page=2)