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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Back to the Future
as George McFly
1985
Dead Man
as Train Fireman
1995
Wild at Heart
as Dell
1990
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
as Bobby McBurney
1993
The People vs. Larry Flynt
as Arlo
1996
My Tutor
as Jack
1983
Beowulf
as Grendel
2007
Nurse Betty
as Roy
2000
Willard
as Willard Stiles
2003
Charlie's Angels
as Thin Man
2000
Simon Says
as Simon / Stanley
2007
Drop Dead Sexy
as Eddie
2005
River's Edge
as Layne
1986
Like Mike
as Stan Bittleman
2002
Hot Tub Time Machine
as Phil
2010
Teachers
as Danny
1984
Chasers
as Howard Finster
1994
Alice in Wonderland
as Ilosovic Stayne / Knave of Hearts
2010
9
as #6 (voice)
2009
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
as Thin Man
2003
TV Appearances
EP Daily
1997
The Facts of Life
1979
Happy Days
1974
American Gods
as Mr. World
2017
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
Texas Rising
as Mosley Baker
2015
Hotel Room
as Danny
1993
Family Ties
as Doug
1982
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
as Richard Upton Pickman
2022
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
Back to the Future: The Hill Valley Chronicles
as George McFly
2018