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Crispin Glover

Acting · Born 1964-04-20 · New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is an American film actor, director and screenwriter, recording artist, publisher and author. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen such as George McFly in Back to the Future, Layne in River's Edge, unfriendly recluse Rubin Farr in Rubin and Ed, the "Creepy Thin Man" in the big screen adaptation of Charlie's Angels and its sequel, Willard Stiles in the Willard remake, The Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, and as Phil in Hot Tub Time Machine. In the late 1980s Glover started his company, Volcanic Eruptions, which issues his books and also serves as the production company of Glover's films, What Is It? and It is Fine. Everything is Fine! Glover tours with those films and plans to film more at the property he owns in the Czech Republic.

Known for

Filmography

2027The Third ParentTommy Taffy
2025No! YOU'RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a DistanceBrutus Muldoon (1888) / Chronos Muldoon (1918) / Damocles Muldoon (1948)
2025A Blind BargainDr. Gruber
2025Mr. KMr. K
2022Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of CuriositiesRichard Upton Pickman
2021Smiley Face KillersHooded Figure
2019Lucky DayLuc
2019We Have Always Lived in the CastleUncle Julian Blackwood
2018Saat des TerrorsJames Logan Davis
2018The Con Is OnGabriel Anderson
2018Back to the Future: The Hill Valley ChroniclesGeorge McFly
2017American GodsMr. World
2015Aimy in a CageClaude Bohringer
2015Texas RisingMosley Baker
2015InfluenceDr Manfred Abuse
2015Beaver Trilogy Part IVHimself (archive footage)
2014The Bag ManNed
2012Freaky DeakyWoody Ricks
2010Open Season 3Fifi (voice)
2010Mr. NiceErnie Combs
2010Hot Tub Time MachinePhil
2010Alice in WonderlandIlosovic Stayne / Knave of Hearts
2009The Donner PartyWilliam Foster
20099#6 (voice)
2008Open Season 2Fifi (voice)
2008Freezer Burn: The Invasion of LaxdaleViergacht
2007It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.Director
2007BeowulfGrendel (Voice)
2007Simon SaysSimon / Stanley
2007The Wizard of GoreMontag the Magnificent
2007Epic MovieWilly
2005Drop Dead SexyEddie
2005What Is It?Dueling Demi-God Auteur / The Young Man's Inner Psyche and Id
2005The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSelf
2004Incident at Loch NessSelf - Party Guest
2004Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2003The Year of the Rat
2003Charlie's Angels: Full ThrottleThin Man
2003WillardWillard Stiles
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self
2002Like MikeStan Bittleman
2002Crime and PunishmentRodion Raskolnikov
2001Fast SofaJules Langdon
2001BartlebyBartleby
2001Andy Warhol: The Complete PictureSelf
2000Charlie's AngelsThin Man
2000Nurse BettyRoy
2000Beaver TrilogyLarry Huff
1997EP Daily
1996The People vs. Larry FlyntArlo
1995Dead ManTrain Fireman
1994Even Cowgirls Get the BluesHoward Barth
1994ChasersHoward Finster
1993What's Eating Gilbert GrapeBobby McBurney
1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest
1993Hotel RoomDanny
1992Rubin & EdRubin Farr
1992Little NoisesJoey Kremple
199130 Door KeyMiętus
1991The DoorsAndy Warhol
1990Wild at HeartDell
1990Where the Heart IsLionel
1989Back to the Future Part IIGeorge McFly (archive footage)
1989TwisterHowdy
1986River's EdgeLayne
1986At Close RangeLucas
1985The Orkly KidLarry
1985Back to the FutureGeorge McFly
1984TeachersDanny
1984High School U.S.A.Bo Middleton
1984Friday the 13th: The Final ChapterJimmy Mortimer
1984Racing with the MoonGatsby Boy
1983High School U.S.A.Archie Feld
1983My TutorJack
1983The Kid with the 200 I.Q.New Student
1982Family TiesDoug
1982Late Night with David LettermanSelf - Guest
1981The Best of TimesCrispin
1979The Facts of Life
1974Happy Days
—A Hero's Journey: The Making of BeowulfGrendel
—Skinemax
—Death of a Brewer

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