News "Inside Story: The Santa Clause"
12 / 20 / 11
The Biography Channel's "Inside Story" will be airing a special on the first Santa Clause film December 24 & 25. Check your local listings for more information. You can also copy and paste the link bellow to check out Eric in extra segments that did not make the final cut.
http://www.biography.com/tv/inside-story/episodes/the-santa-clause
New Agent
11 / 08 / 11
Eric has now signed with the Osbrink Agency !
Bio page updated
03 / 19 / 11
A biography has been added to the Bio page. Check it out.
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03 / 14 / 11
Ericlloyd.com, it's alive, it's alive!!!
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After an entire childhood growing up in front of the camera, Eric Lloyd has graduated from Chapman University and is now back on the scene working both in front of and behind the camera. Eric is best known as "the kid from the Santa Clause" for his role as Tim Allen's son Charlie in The Santa Clause trilogy (1994-2006). Besides these holiday blockbusters, Eric spent his childhood as the son of many leading stars in Hollywood such as Jason Alexander's son in Dunston Checks In (1995), Woody Allen's son in Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Christina Applegate's son in the NBC sitcom Jesse (1998-2000). He also portrayed the younger versions of Robert Downy Jr. in Heart and Souls (1993) and Fred Savage in The Wonder Years (1988-1992). When he wasn't busy with feature films and prime-time television sitcoms, Eric built up quite an impressive resume of commercials for both radio and television as well as TV Guest spots, TV movies, two animated features, a cartoon series and even a CD-Rom for Steven Spielbergs DreamWorks Interactive. But now we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's go back to the start. Eric began his acting career when he was 18 months old in a Unisys Computer commercial and then with his older sister Emily Ann Lloyd in a Huntington Bank commercial. Between the ages of two and five, Eric had a recurring role on The Wonder Years playing a young Fred Savage in the home movie flashbacks. Next, he starred in his first sitcom Laurie Hill with Delanie Matthews and Ellen DeGeneres on ABC. Making his feature film debut at age five in Heart and Souls, Eric brought us to tears as young Thomas (Robert Downey Jr.'s character as a child) co-starring alongside Alfre Woodard, Charles Grodin and Kyra Sedgwick. In the summer of 1993, Eric co-starred with Kirk Douglas and Michael J. Fox in the feature film Greedy, directed by Jonathan Lynn. In the fall of that same year, Lee Grant directed him in the T.V. movie Seasons of the Heart, playing Carol Burnett's grandson. Seasons of the Heart was quickly followed by two more television movies, A Family Torn Apart with Neil Patrick Harris, and In the Best of Families with Kelly McGillis. A month before his 8th birthday, Eric began filming Disney's hit movie The Santa Clause costarring as Tim Allen's son and sharing the North Pole adventure. He went on to film Abandoned and Deceived, a television movie for NBC. Soon after, Eric snagged the role of Kyle Grant in the 20th Century Fox film Dunston Checks In starring with Jason Alexander, Faye Dunaway and an orangutan named Sammy. The following year Eric kept very busy. He was hand picked by Woody Allen to play his son Hilly in Deconstructing Harry. Directly following his New York adventure, Eric starred in the independent short Splittin Image and did two cameos as the young George Clooney in Batman and Robin and as young Billy Crystal in My Giant. In 1996, Eric filmed his first CD-Rom game Goosebumps...Escape from Horrorland for Steven Spielbergs DreamWorks Interactive (DreamWorks SKG). This was the second game developed by the company. Upon completion, Eric tried his hand at animation lending his voice to the characters Neddie in the series Little Wizards for Warner Brothers and Blankey in Disney's The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars and The Brave Little Toaster Goes To School. In the spring of 1997, Eric found himself in the backwoods of Georgia playing young Truman Capote opposite Patty Duke and Piper Laurie in Hallmark's television movie A Christmas Memory. It was there he received his beloved Yorkshire terrier "Wicket" (named after the Ewok from Star Wars), a gift from Patty Duke. Later that same year, Eric completed production on Luminous Motion, an independent feature produced by Good Machine (The Ice Storm) and co-starring Debra Unger (The Game) as his mother.In the summer of 1998, Eric spent his vacation in Australia filming Chameleon, a Sci-Fi movie for UPN with Bobby Phillips. With laser guns, high-tech motorcycles, stunts and special effects, filming was like stepping into the Star Wars universe for the young actor. Eric returned to the states and began his two year run on the sitcom Jesse as Christina Applegate's son "little John" By this time, Eric was in junior high and spending three weeks of every month on set shooting. The other week was spent back in public school. With high school fast approaching, Eric felt a wedge begin to form between his newly found social life as a tween and his childhood career. He knew that he wanted to be present for the entirety of high school. So therefore, he began to slow down on acting. Eric left school only twice to guest star opposite Noah Wylie on the show ER in 2001 and to once again play the role of Charlie in the Santa Clause sequel in 2002. In his first year of high school, Eric enrolled in a brand new TV Production class. The class was small and Eric was able to get very comfortable and hands on with the schools brand new studio, analog VHS mixing board and G4 Mac computers. By his sophomore year he was one of the main producers and head editor behind his schools daily bulletin. Eric began to realize the vast amount of knowledge he had passively learned throughout his years being on set after set. Slowly, he began to learn the terminology behind the things in his head that he thought were just standard everyday knowledge. "Because everyone grows up knowing what the rule of thirds is... don't they?" That same year, Eric got his first guitar (Fender Strat) and began taking guitar lessons. Until then Eric's musical palette was limited to his parents tastes and the one CD he owned which was a John William's greatest scores compilation. The start of high school opened Eric up to the vast array of music in the world and the obsession began. A year later he purchased a drum set and began to slowly put some rhythm into his Caucasian blood. Along with some friends from school, Erics band began making way too much noise in his mothers garage. "Let's just say the police started to phone the house when neighbors complained rather than taking the time to come out... again." Around that same time, Eric started to see the world behind the camera as more than just a fun hobby. During the summer following his sophomore year, he attended a summer film camp based at Biosphere 2 in the middle of the desert outside of Tucson, Arizona. This experience gave him the chance to get his hands on 16mm and 35mm film. Although comfortable around the large 35mm cameras and rigs from his childhood, this was the first time he was able to take one apart to see how they worked. It was also the first time he was able to roll footage through one for his own projects. This proved a good step forward because he was able to learn the program Final Cut Pro. Eric returned to school with some new tricks up his sleeve and due to the growing class size of his then Advanced TV Productions class, Eric was enlisted by his teacher, Mrs. Brown, to help her teach the students Final Cut. During the summer before his senior year, Eric felt that his course would lead him to film school. In anticipation he took another summer film course, this time with the New York Film Academy. These classes were much more intense than the previous summers experience. They took place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he and his peers were housed in one of Harvard's oldest dorms. After a summer of creativity and learning, his final year of high school started. Eric hit the books to try and post some stellar SAT scores and final grades as he began the application process for college. Within a year, the answers were received. After all the forms, questions, interviews, a pile of recommendation letters and a self-made DVD of all his amateur and professional film work in front of and behind the camera he was accepted at Chapman Universitys Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Once again Eric felt it was important to gain an education and to be present throughout his time at Chapman. As a result he held off from acting, returning only to do the final installment of the Santa Clause trilogy, The Escape Clause. Three years later, he graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Film Production from Chapman. After college Eric finally had time to breathe. Taking time off, he retreated from the world he knew and decided to cross one off his bucket list by backpacking through Europe. With no solid plan of attack other than the quest for some great stories and the means to broaden his scope of life, he arrived in London with nothing but a backpack and euro-rail pass. In a trip that would incorporate over thirteen cities and seven countries, Eric found himself living life to the fullest and stepping out of his comfort zone.Within the last five years, music had become intertwined with his film studies. Utilizing the vast amount of resources at Chapman, Eric began to learn the techniques of audio recording and the program Pro Tools. After his return from Europe, Eric decided to put more time into his ongoing ventures in music performance and engineering. He headed into the studio to record his bands first record, a self-titled EP produced, recorded and engineered by Eric at Crate Studios in Montrose CA. One hundred copies of the album were made and given out at local shows. Catching wind of a low budget horror feature in 2010, Eric began crewing as a 2nd 2nd AD on Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2, written and directed by special effects master turned director Robert Hall. The film starred Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hills, 90210) and Johnathon Schaech (That Thing You Do). After learning of Eric's childhood career, he was asked to take a small cameo role as one of Green's henchmen in the film. Following this endeavor, Eric began a string of union and non-union features and commercials working as an AD or APOC. He further continues to write and play music with the lead guitar player from his previous band, and has a five track EP in production for release early next year. Eric has recently signed with the Osbrink Agency in hopes of returning to silver screen.
