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Crispin Glover

Acting

Born April 20, 1964 · New York City, New York, USA

Also known as Crispin Hellion Glover

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.

Filmography50+ titles

Back to the Future

1985as George McFly

Back to the Future Part II

1989as George McFly (archive footage)

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993as Bobby McBurney

Happy Days

1974

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

2022as Richard Upton Pickman

Beaver Trilogy Part IV

2015as Himself (archive footage)

Dead Man

1995as Train Fireman

Family Ties

1982as Doug

American Gods

2017as Mr. World

The Doors

1991as Andy Warhol

The Facts of Life

1979

9

2009as #6 (voice)

The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996as Arlo

Wild at Heart

1990as Dell

At Close Range

1986as Lucas

Alice in Wonderland

2010as Ilosovic Stayne / Knave of Hearts

River's Edge

1986as Layne

Mr. K

2024as Mr. K

Racing with the Moon

1984as Gatsby Boy

Texas Rising

2015as Mosley Baker

Where the Heart Is

1990as Lionel

Mr. Nice

2010as Ernie Combs

Willard

2003as Willard Stiles

Like Mike

2002as Stan Bittleman

Nurse Betty

2000as Roy

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

1984as Jimmy Mortimer

Hot Tub Time Machine

2010as Phil

Open Season 2

2008as Fifi (voice)

Beowulf

2007as Grendel

Charlie's Angels

2000as Thin Man

Incident at Loch Ness

2004as Self - Party Guest

Bartleby

2001as Bartleby

Open Season 3

2010as Fifi (voice)

Teachers

1984as Danny

Twister

1989as Howdy

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

2018as Uncle Julian Blackwood

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

2003as Thin Man

High School U.S.A.

1983as Archie Feld

Lucky Day

2019as Luc

Chasers

1994as Howard Finster

The Bag Man

2014as Ned

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003as Self

Crime and Punishment

2002as Rodion Raskolnikov

Freaky Deaky

2012as Woody Ricks

Simon Says

2006as Simon / Stanley

Drop Dead Sexy

2005as Eddie

The Donner Party

2009as William Foster

The Wizard of Gore

2007as Montag the Magnificent

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

1993as Howard Barth

The Con is On

2018as Gabriel Anderson