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 T...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Third Parent
2025
as Tommy Taffy
A neighborhood Fourth of July celebration is interrupted by a ferociously bizarre anomaly who overpowers a family in order to teach them how to become...

Mr. K
2025
as Mr. K
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel, he has slept in. His attempts to get ou...

Smiley Face Killers
2020
as Hooded Figure
Handsome young soccer player Jake Graham believes he is going insane, unable to shake the feeling of being stalked by something, by someone.

Lucky Day
2019
as Luc
Red, a safe cracker who has just been released from prison, is trying to hold his family together as his past catches up with him in the form of Luc, ...

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
2019
as Uncle Julian Blackwood
In Shirleyville, Vermont, during the sixties, sisters Merricat and Constance, along with their ailing uncle Julian, confined to a wheelchair, live iso...

Saat des Terrors
2018
as James Logan Davis
In the feature film "Seed of Terror", a German secret service agent during her assignment abroad in Pakistan recognizes that attacks on civilians in M...

The Con Is On
2018
as Gabriel Anderson
In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot...

Aimy in a Cage
2015
as Claude Bohringer
A teenage orphan and delinquent rebels against her evil family during a global virus outbreak.

Influence
2015
as Dr Manfred Abuse
"Influence" is a story about the key events of the Wielkopolska Uprising - a dramatic arrival of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań, and the people who p...

Beaver Trilogy Part IV
2015
as Himself (archive footage)
A chance meeting in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker Trent Harris and a young man from Beaver, Utah inspired the creation of an underground fil...

The Bag Man
2014
as Ned
A criminal waits in a seedy motel for his boss after killing several men to steal a bag.

Freaky Deaky
2012
as Woody Ricks
Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.

Open Season 3
2010
as Fifi (voice)
Boog, Elliot, and their forest friends return with an all-new adventure, this time in a Big Top Circus! The comedy begins when Boog's pals choose thei...

Mr. Nice
2010
as Ernie Combs
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le...

Hot Tub Time Machine
2010
as Phil
Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does noth...

Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Ilosovic Stayne / Knave of Hearts
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

The Donner Party
2009
as William Foster
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expa...

9
2009
as #6 (voice)
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small comm...

Open Season 2
2008
as Fifi (voice)
After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampe...

Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale
2008
as Viergacht
Disguised as executives from a Dutch Oil Company, Aliens from outer space buy a local farming company and promise to create jobs for the failing farmi...
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
2007
Director, Music Supervisor, Editor
Paul, a man suffering from cerebral palsy, lives an unfulfilled life in a nursing home. Sitting in his wheelchair, he fantasizes about a life in which...

Beowulf
2007
as Grendel
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.

Simon Says
2007
as Simon / Stanley
Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths wi...

The Wizard of Gore
2007
as Montag the Magnificent
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in...

Epic Movie
2007
as Willy
When the Pevensie siblings each follow their own path, they find themselves at Willy's Chocolate Factory. Walking through a wardrobe, they discover th...

Drop Dead Sexy
2005
as Eddie
When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.

What Is It?
2005
as Dueling Demi-God Auteur / The Young Man's Inner Psyche and Id
A young man journeys through a bizarre land inhabited by mentally impaired people, demons, and snails.

What Is It?
2005
Writer, Director, Producer
A young man journeys through a bizarre land inhabited by mentally impaired people, demons, and snails.

Incident at Loch Ness
2004
as Self - Party Guest
When renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, they uncover much mo...

Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
A documentary about the making of the movie Wild at Heart, produced for the DVD release of the film.

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2003
as Thin Man
The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Progra...

Willard
2003
as Willard Stiles
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry crea...

Like Mike
2002
as Stan Bittleman
Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to ...

Crime and Punishment
2002
as Rodion Raskolnikov
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.

Fast Sofa
2001
as Jules Langdon
Rick, a dope fiend, believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger, a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick...

Bartleby
2001
as Bartleby
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
as Self
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous...

Charlie's Angels
2000
as Thin Man
The captivating crime-fighting trio who are masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts are back! When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plo...

Nurse Betty
2000
as Roy
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kans...

Beaver Trilogy
2000
as Larry Huff
Our story begins in 1979, with a chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dr...

The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996
as Arlo
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living p...

Dead Man
1995
as Train Fireman
William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a jou...

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
as Howard Barth
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.

Chasers
1994
as Howard Finster
Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip...

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
as Bobby McBurney
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't lea...

Rubin & Ed
1992
as Rubin Farr
Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Th...

Little Noises
1992
as Joey Kremple
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.

30 Door Key
1991
as Miętus
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous n...

The Doors
1991
as Andy Warhol
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

Wild at Heart
1990
as Dell
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a te...

Where the Heart Is
1990
as Lionel
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.

Back to the Future Part II
1989
as George McFly (archive footage)
Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff...

Twister
1989
as Howdy
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is...

River's Edge
1986
as Layne
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, ea...

At Close Range
1986
as Lucas
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a ga...

The Orkly Kid
1985
as Larry
Larry (Crispin Glover) organizes a talent show in an attempt to get on TV but the small town of Orkly, Idaho, isn't ready for his Olivia Newton-John i...

Back to the Future
1985
as George McFly
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother...

Teachers
1984
as Danny
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still canno...
High School U.S.A.
1984
as Bo Middleton
Principal of Excelsior High School deals with a rivalry between student groups and his own interest in the new counselor.

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1984
as Jimmy Mortimer
After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.

Racing with the Moon
1984
as Gatsby Boy
In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. He...

High School U.S.A.
1983
as Archie Feld
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie betw...

My Tutor
1983
as Jack
High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive ...

The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
1983
as New Student
A 13-year-old genius goes to college and tries to cope not only with campus social life, but also with his professor.

The Best of Times
1981
as Crispin
This ABC pilot starred 7 teenagers in a 80's style Laugh-In. It told the light and dark side of teenage thoughts with dancing and singing added in for...

A Blind Bargain
N/A
as Dr. Gruber
Set in 1970, A BLIND BARGAIN reimagines the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name. A desperate young man strikes a dark deal with an unhin...
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
N/A
as Grendel
A behind the scenes look at the production of Beowulf
Skinemax
N/A
Examining the softcore porn industry of the early 1990s, the film follows Morgan Sands, a failing indie film director, and his unlikely friendship wit...