Christopher Lloyd (TV producer)

Christopher Lloyd is an American TV screenwriter and producer. Lloyd is co-creator and executive producer of the TV series Modern Family, which he produces with Steven Levitan. Prior to that, Lloyd had an extensive career on many series, primarily Frasier. He has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on Modern Family and Frasier. He currently holds the record for winning the most Primetime Emmy awards as either a comedy or drama series producer.^[1]

Career

Lloyd began screenwriting with the first four seasons of The Golden Girls. From there he moved on to the comedy Wings, and then to Frasier, where he became its showrunner. While he was executive producer, Frasier won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for five consecutive years, the first time any series had done so.^[1] Lloyd left Frasier after its first seven seasons, returning to helm its final season. He moved on to such series as Out of Practice (where he first worked with Modern Family’s Ty Burrell), Back To You and then to Modern Family, which also won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for five consecutive years. Lloyd is the only person to have achieved this distinction twice. As a screenwriter, his work includes the animated feature film Flushed Away (2006), for which he received an Annie Award.

Personal life

Lloyd is the son of Arline and sitcom writer David Lloyd (1934–2009).^[2] Since 1995, he has been married to actress, writer, and voiceover performer Arleen Sorkin, with whom he has two sons,^[3] Eli and Owen.^[4]

Writing credits

The Golden Girls

• "Second Motherhood"
• "The Sisters"
• "Dorothy's Prized Pupil"
• "Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself"
• "Strange Bedfellows"
• "The Artist"
• "Mixed Blessings"
• "The One That Got Away"
• "Scared Straight"
• "Blind Date"
• "Little Sister"

Wings

• "Marriage, Italian Style"
• "The Taming of the Shrew"
• "Take My Life, Please"
• "Lifeboat"
• "It May Have Happened One Night"
• "Goodbye Old Friend"

Frasier

• "I Hate Frasier Crane"
• "Flour Child"
• "Fool Me Once, Shame On You..."
• "Dark Victory"
• "Shrink Rap"
• "Moon Dance"
• "The Show Where Diane Comes Back"
• "Mixed Doubles"
• "The 1000th Show" (with Joe Keenan)
• "Perspectives On Christmas"
• "Good Grief"
• "Rivals"
• "Something Borrowed, Someone Blue" (with Joe Keenan)
• "High Holidays"
• "Goodnight, Seattle" (with Joe Keenan) (Series Finale)

Modern Family

• "Pilot" (with Steven Levitan and won for Episodic Comedy at Writers Guild of America Awards 2009)
• "Coal Digger"
• "Up All Night"
• "Manny Get Your Gun" (story credits)
• "Party Crasher (with Danny Zuker)"

Producing credits

• Dream for an Insomniac (1996)

References

External links

• Christopher Lloyd on IMDb
• Christopher Lloyd interview video at the Archive of American Television