Emmett "Doc" Lathrop Brown, Ph.D.

Portrayed by: Christoper Lloyd
Voiced by: Dan Castellanata

Job Title : Inventor of Time Travel;
Inventor and Tinkerer Extraordinaire;
Confidence Trickster to Libyan Terrorists;
Time Traveller; Mad Scientist
Schools Attended: University of California, Berkely and MIT
Status: Married to Clara Clayton
Affiliations: Hill Valley University (formerly, as Professor of Physics)

Christopher Lloyed as Dr. Emmet 'Doc' Brown

Fictional biography:
..born in 1922 in Hill Valley, California
..mother was Sarah Lathrop
..father was of the Van Brauns hailing from Germany / Austria-Hungary
..family has established social credentials in Hill Valley, California (having lived there since the 1880s)
..family has amassed a large fortune that Doc inherited in the 1950s

Geek symptoms:
..at age 11, he discovered the works of his favorite author, Jules Verne, and thereafter dedicated his life to science
..at age 12, he embarked on his first scientific exploration with an attempt to dig to the center of the earth (as inspired the Jules Verne novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth")
..in his late teens and early 20s (circa 1942), he worked on the manhattan project, where he learned about nuclear physics and plutonium.
..has many many pet dogs over the years whom he has named after his scientist role models (such as Copernicus, Einstein, Newton, Edison)

Did you know :
..his signature catchphrase is an exclamatory "Great Scott!"
..he is a great fan of jazz music, Jules Verne, and anything that has to do with the "Western" timeframe in american history
..his appearance and mannerisms are loosely inspired by Leopold Stokowski (renowned orchestral conductor) and Albert Einstein
..his pet dog in the year 1985 named "Einstein" (or "Einie" for short) is the first living creature to have successfully completed time travel by jumping one minute in time from 1:20am October 26, 1985 to 1:21am on the same day.
..he has appeared in 3 live-action movies (1985-1990), an animated series for television (1991-1992), an amusement park ride at the Universal Studios Hollywood, a television commercial, and as a guest performer during the opening keynote of Microsoft TechEd in June, 2007.
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