[[File:EmmettBrown1_400x400.jpg|thumb|Emmett Brown Age, 71 in 1985.]][[File:TqTX0.jpg|thumb|Emmett Brown Age, 41 in 1955.]][[File:Bttf3-doc-640-359.jpg|thumb|256px|Emmett Brown Age, 71 as Citizen Brown in 1986A. ]]
[[File:YoungDB.jpg|thumb|288px|Young Emmett Brown Age, 17 in 1931.]][[File:ㄹㄹ.jpg|thumb|286px|Young Emmett Brown with His Father Judge Erhardt Brown.]] {{Character|name = Emmett Lathrop 'Doc' Brown|birth = October 22, 1914|age8 = 17|age2 = 41|age3 = 71|gender = Male|hair = Brown (1931)
Blond (1955)
Blond (1955)
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White (1985 ~ )|eyes = Brown|film = Christopher Lloyd|age1 = Not yet born|age4 = 101 (Likely Deceased)|imageBG = [[Image:DocBrown.jpg.|260px]]}}[[File:EmmettBrown1_400x400.jpg|thumb|Emmett Brown Age, 71 in 1985.]][[File:TqTX0.jpg|thumb|Emmett Brown Age, 41 in 1955.]][[File:Bttf3-doc-640-359.jpg|thumb|256px|Emmett Brown Age, 71 as Citizen Brown in 1986A. ]]
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[[File:YoungDB.jpg|thumb|288px|Young Emmett Brown Age, 17 in 1931.]][[File:ㄹㄹ.jpg|thumb|286px|Young Emmett Brown with His Father Judge Erhardt Brown.]]* The "L" in Emmett L. Brown's name stands for "Lathrop", it has been speculated that this may have been his mother's maiden name, although there is no evidence for this.
*The [[Back to the Future novelization|novelization]] and screenplays states that he is 65 in [[1985]], although an episode of the [[Back to the Future: The Animated Series|animated series]] claims he was born in 1922. In ''[[Back to the Future: The Game]]'', Emmett is 17 in 1931, which means that he was born in 1914.
*The [[Back to the Future novelization|novelization]] and screenplays states that he is 65 in [[1985]], although an episode of the [[Back to the Future: The Animated Series|animated series]] claims he was born in 1922. In ''[[Back to the Future: The Game]]'', Emmett is 17 in 1931, which means that he was born in 1914.
*''"[[Christopher Lloyd]] says that his model for creating the character was actually the conductor Leopold Stokowski, with the hair that way, and the big, broad gestures. Doc Brown walks around like he's conducting the orchestra of the world."'' - [[Bob Gale]]
*''"[[Christopher Lloyd]] says that his model for creating the character was actually the conductor Leopold Stokowski, with the hair that way, and the big, broad gestures. Doc Brown walks around like he's conducting the orchestra of the world."'' - [[Bob Gale]]
Young Emmett Brown with His Father Judge Erhardt Brown.
* The "L" in Emmett L. Brown's name stands for "Lathrop", it has been speculated that this may have been his mother's maiden name, although there is no evidence for this.
"Christopher Lloyd says that his model for creating the character was actually the conductor Leopold Stokowski, with the hair that way, and the big, broad gestures. Doc Brown walks around like he's conducting the orchestra of the world." - Bob Gale
In addition Albert Einstein was an influence to the character
It has been speculated that "Doc" is supposed to be a relative of real-life scientist Wernher von Braun.
Doc's family was presumably from the German Empire or Austria-Hungary.
First Citizen Brown's balding and spectacled appearance in the game looked similar to Christopher Lloyd's real-life appearance as in the 2010s.
The interior of Doc Brown's 1955 Mansion is the Blacker House. It was built by architects Charles Greene and Henry Greene; the same architects that built the Gamble House.
Robert Zemeckis, co-writer/director of the films, has suggested that during the early 1940s, Doc worked on the Manhattan Project (which could explained the reason why the Libyan terrorists specifically picked Doc to build them a nuclear weapon), though this is never mentioned on screen.
In a 2002 question and answer session at USC for the DVD of Back to the Future, Zemeckis said that John Lithgow had been considered for the role of Doc Brown, but Lithgow was unavailable. Producer Neil Canton, who had recently worked with Lithgow on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, suggested Christopher Lloyd, who had been in the film as well.
In the 2009 documentary Looking Back to the Future, one of the features on the 2009 DVD re-release of Back to the Future, Zemeckis said that Jeff Goldblum, who had also been in Buckaroo Banzai, was the next choice if Lloyd declined the role.
Lloyd, in the 2009 documentary, said that he had an offer for an off-Broadway theatrical production at
Emmett Brown Age, 71 in 1885.
the same time that he would be filming Back to the Future, and debated whether to appear on stage, or portraying Doc Brown.
Doc owns a clock that is shown at the beginning of Back to the Future Part I that shows an old man in a jacket and a hat hanging on to the minute hand just like the 1955 Doc later on in the movie and also resembled Harold Lloyd (no relation) in "Safety Last".
If one looks very closely at each time Doc is shot by the Libyans, the second time has a very obvious difference to show that he didn't really die. The first Doc (with no knowledge) gets fired upon so much, he literally balances on one foot before toppling over backwards. The second Doc (with the foresight to wear the vest) merely waves up his arms and then falls backwards using his arms for some cushion.
Strangely enough, the first time Doc is shot by the Libyans, there is no blood at all, when it should have painted Doc's van (one could conclude he had the vest because it could have been a predestination paradox). However, one likely explanation is that when Doc first died, he was sent recoiling by the gunfire and landed on the parking lot pavement, thus any blood could have seeped there. However, the film producers likely did not want to focus on blood as that was not that crucial to the plot, only that Marty must now go back in time to warn the younger Doc. Other likely explanation is not wishing to jeopardize their overall family-friendly image of the film by risking it getting rated PG-13 or R.
Christopher Lloyd got nominated for Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Doc (BTTF1).
The brief "Hi" that Doc and Lorraine give each other, after Lorraine follows Marty to Doc's garage, (besides being the only time in any of the three films that Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson share a scene) is the only time that Doc directly interacts with any member of the McFly family, besides Marty, on-screen. Doc did supposedly incapacitate Martin McFly, Jr. with his sleep inducer in 2015, but this occurred off-camera.
