
Crispin 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.
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Known For
Acting History
2026
The Third Parent as Tommy Taffy
2025No! YOU'RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance as Brutus Muldoon (1888) / Chronos Muldoon (1918) / Damocles Muldoon (1948)
2025A Blind Bargain as Dr. Gruber
2025Mr. K as Mr. K
2022Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities as Richard Upton Pickman
2020Smiley Face Killers as Hooded Figure
2019Lucky Day as Luc
2019We Have Always Lived in the Castle as Uncle Julian Blackwood
2018Saat des Terrors as James Logan Davis
2018The Con Is On as Gabriel Anderson
2017American Gods as Mr. World
2015Aimy in a Cage as Claude Bohringer
2015Texas Rising as Mosley Baker
2015Beaver Trilogy Part IV as Himself (archive footage)
2015Influence as Dr Manfred Abuse
2014The Bag Man as Ned
2012Freaky Deaky as Woody Ricks
2010Open Season 3 as Fifi (voice)
2010Mr. Nice as Ernie Combs
2010Hot Tub Time Machine as Phil
2010Alice in Wonderland as Ilosovic Stayne / Knave of Hearts
2009The Donner Party as William Foster
20099 as #6 (voice)
2008Open Season 2 as Fifi (voice)
2008Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale as Viergacht
2007Beowulf as Grendel
2007Simon Says as Simon / Stanley
2007The Wizard of Gore as Montag the Magnificent
2007Epic Movie as Willy
2005Drop Dead Sexy as Eddie
2005What Is It? as Dueling Demi-God Auteur / The Young Man's Inner Psyche and Id
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004Incident at Loch Ness as Self - Party Guest
2004Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2003Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle as Thin Man
2003Willard as Willard Stiles
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002Like Mike as Stan Bittleman
2002Crime and Punishment as Rodion Raskolnikov
2001Fast Sofa as Jules Langdon
2001Bartleby as Bartleby
2001Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture as Self
2000Charlie's Angels as Thin Man
2000Nurse Betty as Roy
2000Beaver Trilogy as Larry Huff
1997EP Daily
1996The People vs. Larry Flynt as Arlo
1995Dead Man as Train Fireman
1994Even Cowgirls Get the Blues as Howard Barth
1994Chasers as Howard Finster
1993What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Bobby McBurney
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Hotel Room as Danny
1992Rubin & Ed as Rubin Farr
1992Little Noises as Joey Kremple
199130 Door Key as Miętus
1991The Doors as Andy Warhol
1990Wild at Heart as Dell
1990Where the Heart Is as Lionel
1989Back to the Future Part II as George McFly (archive footage)
1989Twister as Howdy
1986River's Edge as Layne
1986At Close Range as Lucas
1985The Orkly Kid as Larry
1985Back to the Future as George McFly
1984Teachers as Danny
1984High School U.S.A. as Bo Middleton
1984Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter as Jimmy Mortimer
1984Racing with the Moon as Gatsby Boy
1983High School U.S.A. as Archie Feld
1983My Tutor as Jack
1983The Kid with the 200 I.Q. as New Student
1982Family Ties as Doug
1981The Best of Times as Crispin
1979The Facts of Life
1974Happy Days
—Death of a Brewer
—A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf as Grendel
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