Sam Lloyd

Sam Lloyd, an American actor and singer, was born in Springfield, Vermont, in 1963. He attended Syracuse University in the 1980s and appeared in a student film by Paul Perry, Fan Mail. He played Ted Buckland, a lawyer, on the comedy drama Scrubs and the sitcom Cougar Town. His other television jobs included a housing lawyer on Malcolm in the Middle, a man who asked the White House to release UFO information on The West Wing, and Albert Goldfine on Desperate Housewives. On Seinfeld he appeared in two episodes as Ricky, a character fixated on TV Guide who fell for Elaine. He also sang in an a cappella ensemble, the Blanks, which performed on Scrubs as The Worthless Peons, also called Ted's Band. In addition, he was the bassist in a Beatles tribute act, the Butties, and learned to play left handed to mirror Paul McCartney. He died in 2020.