answers: Michael J. Fox
context: Back to the Future Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly, who accidentally travels back in time to 1955, where he meets his future parents and becomes his mother's romantic interest. Christopher Lloyd portrays the eccentric scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, inventor of the time-traveling DeLorean, who helps Marty repair history and return to 1985. Zemeckis and Gale wrote the script after Gale wondered whether he would have befriended his father if they had attended school </s> the movie and his television sitcom "Family Ties". The director, Robert Zemeckis, said that while Stoltz provided an admirable performance, it lacked the precise comedic sense that Zemeckis was seeking. Some of the original footage, where Stoltz does not appear but was on set, was used in the film. Stoltz playing the character was referenced in the 2010 episode of "Fringe" titled "Peter" when, in a parallel universe, a theater marquee reads ""Back to the Future" starring Eric Stoltz". In 1985, Stoltz garnered attention with a Golden Globe nomination starring as Rocky Dennis in "Mask". Among other roles in the </s> the lawyer on "Scrubs". Christopher Lloyd Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian. Lloyd came to public attention in Northeastern theater productions during the 1960s and early 1970s, earning an Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award for his work. He made his screen debut in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), and gained widespread recognition as Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series "Taxi" (1978–1983), for which he won two Emmy Awards. Lloyd also starred as Emmett "Doc" Brown in the "Back to the Future" trilogy, Judge Doom in "Who Framed
question: who played marty in back to the future