John Bedford Lloyd (born January 2, 1956) is an American character actor.
Lloyd was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of architect Edward Bedford Lloyd (died 1990) and women's clothing designer and wedding planner Ann (1925-2008), daughter of John Whitmore Storrs, of Fairfield, Connecticut.
Lloyd's parents lived at Southport, and at Greens Farms, Connecticut, later also residing at Palm Beach, Florida; they renovated and remodeled 'a number of houses' in both states.
[2][3] While studying at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, he was cast in the play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and decided to become a professional actor.
He's appeared in movies such as Trading Places, Crossing Delancey, Philadelphia, Fair Game, The Bourne Supremacy, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and The Front Runner and in TV series such as Hometown, Law & Order, Aliens in the Family, John Adams, and Ozark.