Christopher Lloyd (TV producer)

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Christopher Lloyd
Born (1960-06-18) June 18, 1960 (age 63)
Occupations
Years active1986–present
Notable work Frasier , Modern Family
Spouse
(m. 1995;died 2023)
Children2
Relatives David Lloyd (father)

Christopher Lloyd (born June 18, 1960) is an American television producer and screenwriter. Lloyd is the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC mockumentary family sitcom Modern Family , which he co-created and produced with Steven Levitan. Lloyd has had an extensive career on many series, primarily Frasier .

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Lloyd has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on Modern Family and Frasier. He holds the record for 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 . He then wrote for the comedy Wings; then 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 seventh season, then returned to helm its final (eleventh) season. He then produced the series Out of Practice (where he first worked with Modern Family's Ty Burrell); Back To You; and Modern Family, which also won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for five consecutive years. As a screenwriter, Lloyd's work includes the animated feature film Flushed Away (2006), for which he received an Annie Award. In 2000, he received an overall deal at Paramount. [2] He quit in 2006 to join Fox in partnership with Steven Levitan. [3]

Personal life

Lloyd was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, [4] the son of Arline and sitcom writer David Lloyd (1934–2009). [5] From 1995 until her death in 2023, he was married to actress, writer, and voiceover performer Arleen Sorkin, with whom he had two sons, [6] Eli and Owen. [7]

Filmography

YearTitleCredited asNetwork
WriterProducer
1986–1989 The Golden Girls YesNo NBC
1991–1993 Wings YesYes
1993–2004 Frasier YesExecutive
2005–2006 Out of Practice YesExecutive CBS
2007–2008 Back to You YesExecutive Fox
2009–2020 Modern Family YesExecutive ABC
TBAUntitled Alec Baldwin/Kelsey Grammer projectYesExecutiveTBA [8]

Writing credits

The Golden Girls
Wings
Frasier
Modern Family

Producing credits

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  7. "The art of writing and making films: Flushed Away". "About the Filmmakers", Flushed Away press kit, via The Writing Studio. Archived from the original on February 25, 2007.
  8. "Alec Baldwin-Kelsey Grammer Comedy Passed on by ABC". April 24, 2021.