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Crispin Glover

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Crispin Glover

Born April 20, 1964 in New York City, New York, USA63 films

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.

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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.

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Back to the Future posterFirst watchBack to the Future19858.3as George McFlyEighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest.View film

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape poster7.7What's Eating Gilbert Grape1993Alice in Wonderland poster6.6Alice in Wonderland20109 poster7.092009Dead Man poster7.3Dead Man1995Wild at Heart poster7.0Wild at Heart1990The Doors poster7.1The Doors1991The People vs. Larry Flynt poster7.0The People vs. Larry Flynt1996Charlie's Angels poster5.9Charlie's Angels2000

Filmography

63 films as actor
  1. TBASkinemax
  2. TBADeath of a Brewer
  3. 2027The Third ParentTommy Taffy
  4. 2025No! YOU'RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a DistanceBrutus Muldoon (1888) / Chronos Muldoon (1918) / Damocles Muldoon (1948)
  5. 2025A Blind BargainDr. Gruber
  6. 2025Mr. KMr. K
  7. 2021Smiley Face KillersHooded Figure
  8. 2021Red Bird LaneJonah
  9. 2019Lucky DayLuc
  10. 2019We Have Always Lived in the CastleUncle Julian Blackwood
  11. 2018Saat des TerrorsJames Logan Davis
  12. 2018By the Rivers of BabylonWilliam
  13. 2018The Con Is OnGabriel Anderson
  14. 2015Aimy in a CageClaude Bohringer
  15. 2015InfluenceDr Manfred Abuse
  16. 2014The Bag ManNed
  17. 2012Freaky DeakyWoody Ricks
  18. 2010Open Season 3Fifi (voice)
  19. 2010Mr. NiceErnie Combs
  20. 2010Hot Tub Time MachinePhil
  21. 2010Alice in WonderlandIlosovic Stayne / Knave of Hearts
  22. 2009The Donner PartyWilliam Foster
  23. 20099#6 (voice)
  24. 2008Open Season 2Fifi (voice)
  25. 2008Freezer Burn: The Invasion of LaxdaleViergacht
  26. 2007BeowulfGrendel (Voice)
  27. 2007Simon SaysSimon / Stanley
  28. 2007The Wizard of GoreMontag the Magnificent
  29. 2007Epic MovieWilly
  30. 2005Drop Dead SexyEddie
  31. 2005What Is It?Dueling Demi-God Auteur / The Young Man's Inner Psyche and Id
  32. 2003Charlie's Angels: Full ThrottleThin Man
  33. 2003WillardWillard Stiles
  34. 2002Like MikeStan Bittleman
  35. 2002Crime and PunishmentRodion Raskolnikov
  36. 2001Fast SofaJules Langdon
  37. 2001BartlebyBartleby
  38. 2000Charlie's AngelsThin Man
  39. 2000Nurse BettyRoy
  40. 1996The People vs. Larry FlyntArlo
  41. 1995Dead ManTrain Fireman
  42. 1994Even Cowgirls Get the BluesHoward Barth
  43. 1994ChasersHoward Finster
  44. 1993What's Eating Gilbert GrapeBobby McBurney
  45. 1992Rubin & EdRubin Farr
  46. 1992Little NoisesJoey Kremple
  47. 199130 Door KeyMiętus
  48. 1991The DoorsAndy Warhol
  49. 1990Wild at HeartDell
  50. 1990Where the Heart IsLionel
  51. 1989TwisterHowdy
  52. 1986River's EdgeLayne
  53. 1986At Close RangeLucas
  54. 1985The Orkly KidLarry
  55. 1985Back to the FutureGeorge McFly
  56. 1984TeachersDanny
  57. 1984High School U.S.A.Bo Middleton
  58. 1984Friday the 13th: The Final ChapterJimmy Mortimer
  59. 1984Racing with the MoonGatsby Boy
  60. 1983High School U.S.A.Archie Feld
  61. 1983My TutorJack
  62. 1983The Kid with the 200 I.Q.New Student
  63. 1981The Best of TimesCrispin