<P> The Reverend Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski, played by Christopher Lloyd, was a fictional character in the 1970s television series Taxi . A gentle soul, Jim, in his own words, was "the living embodiment of the Sixties ." His most noticeable character trait was his extremely "spaced out" behavior as a result of extensive 1960s drug use . </P> <P> Ignatowski was born James Caldwell . He claimed to have been born in Spokane, Washington, although his often - unreliable memory makes this information quite open to question . However, he was definitely raised in Boston, Massachusetts as one of three children in a very well - to - do family . </P>

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