Christopher Lloyd is an American TV screenwriter and producer of Wings, Frasier

Frasier

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...

, Out of Practice

Out of Practice

Out of Practice is an American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on CBS from September 19, 2005 to March 29, 2006. With producers Joe Keenan and Christopher Lloyd at the helm, the show was about a family of five doctors who had little in common and usually did not get along...

, Back to You

Back to You

Back to You is an American situation comedy series, which aired on Fox from September 19, 2007 to May 14, 2008. The creators and executive producers were Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, and the director was James Burrows. The series starred Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton as squabbling...

, and Modern Family

Modern Family

Modern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, which debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan serve as showrunner and executive producers, under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label...

. He has won nine Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

s, but is best known for his screenwriting on Frasier

Frasier

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...

, where he was a co-executive producer from 1993 to 1994 and an executive producer from 1994 to 2000, and again from 2003 to 2004.

Lloyd began screenwriting with the first four seasons of The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris, which originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida...

. His father was sitcom writer David Lloyd

David Lloyd (writer)

David Lloyd was an American screenwriter and producer for television.He wrote for many popular and award-winning sitcoms, such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier and Wings. Lloyd wrote the Emmy-winning "Chuckles Bites the Dust", an episode of the...

 (1934–2009). Recent works as a screenwriter include the film Flushed Away

Flushed Away

Flushed Away is a 2006 computer animated British film directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell. It is a partnership between Aardman Animations of Wallace and Gromit fame, and DreamWorks Animation, and is Aardman's first completely computer-animated feature as opposed to the usual stop-motion.The film...

, for which he received an Annie Award

Annie Award

The Annie Awards have been presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972...

, and creator and executive producer of the series Modern Family

Modern Family

Modern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, which debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan serve as showrunner and executive producers, under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label...

.

Lloyd is married to actress and voice over artist Arleen Sorkin

Arleen Sorkin

Arleen Sorkin is an American actress, screenwriter, presenter and comedienne. Sorkin is known for portraying Calliope Jones on the NBC daytime serial Days of our Lives and for voicing Batman DC comic supervillainess Harley Quinn in Batman: The Animated Series and the many animated series and...

, perhaps best known as the voice of Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn was first introduced as a villain on September 11, 1992, in the animated series Batman: The Animated Series, later adapted into DC Comics' Batman comic books. As suggested by her name , she is clad in the manner of a traditional harlequin jester...

. They have two children, Eli and Owen.

Writing credits

The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris, which originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida...

• "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

Frasier

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...

• "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
  Goodnight, Seattle
  "Goodnight, Seattle" is the title of the series finale of the long-running American sitcom Frasier. It aired on May 13, 2004, in the 11th year of the series...
  
  " (with Joe Keenan) (Series Finale)

Modern Family

Modern Family

Modern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, which debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan serve as showrunner and executive producers, under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label...

• "Pilot
  Pilot (Modern Family)
  The pilot episode of the television series Modern Family, written by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd and directed by Jason Winer, premiered on ABC in the United States on September 23, 2009. The pilot introduces viewers to three sets of people who make up a single family...
  
  " (with Steven Levitan
  Steven Levitan
  Steven E. Levitan is an American director, screenwriter and producer of television comedies. He has created such TV series as Just Shoot Me!, Stark Raving Mad, Stacked, Back to You, and Modern Family....
  
   and won for Episodic Comedy at Writers Guild of America Awards 2009
  Writers Guild of America Awards 2009
  The 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film, television, and videogame writers of 2009. Winners were announced on February 20, 2010.-Best Adapted Screenplay:*Crazy Heart*Julie & Julia...
  
  )
• "Coal Digger
  Coal Digger
  "Coal Digger" is the fifth episode of the American family sitcom, Modern Family. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company in the United States on October 21, 2009....
  
  "
• "Up All Night
  Up All Night (Modern Family)
  "Up All Night" is the eleventh episode of the first season for the ABC series Modern Family. It premiered on ABC in the United States on January 6, 2010. The episode was written by co-creator Christopher Lloyd and directed by Michael Spiller. In the episode, Gloria is less than pleased with Jay's...
  
  "
• "Manny Get Your Gun
  Manny Get Your Gun
  "Manny Get Your Gun" is the eighth episode of the second season of the sitcom, Modern Family and the 32nd overall. It originally aired November 17, 2010 on the American Broadcasting Company...
  
  " (story credits)

External links

• "The art of writing and making films: 'Flushed Away'"