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Biography

Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is an American film actor , film director|director and screenwriter , recording artist , publisher, and author . Glover is known for portraying eccentricity (behavior)|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 , Andy Warhol in The Doors, the "Thin Man" in the big screen adaptation of Charlie's Angels (film)|Charlie's Angels and its sequel, Willard Stiles in the Willard (2003 film)|Willard remake, The Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)|Alice in Wonderland , and as Phil in Hot Tub Time Machine (and effectively as a WillyWonka-parody in Epic Movie ). He is also the voice of Fifi (Open Season)|Fifi in the Open Season (film series)| Open Season franchise and most recently has appeared in the screen adaption of the Elmore Leonard novel "Freaky Deaky."

In the late 1980s, Glover started his company, Volcanic Eruptions , which publishes his books and also serves as the production company for Glover's films, What Is It? and It is Fine. Everything is Fine! Glover tours with his movies and plans to create more films at the property he owns in the Czech Republic .

Early life

Glover was raised as an only child born in New York City, and moved to Los Angeles with his family at the age of five. His father is actor Bruce Glover and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Lillian Betty Krachey ( married and maiden names Krachey|née ) Bloom Koerber, was an actress and dancer who retired upon his birth. He is of English, Czech, German and Swedish descent. He was named after the Saint Crispin's Day speech from William Shakespeare 's play Henry V (play)|Henry V , which his parents enjoyed. "Hellion", his real middle name, had earlier been used as a false middle name by his father, who did not like his own real middle name, Herbert. As a child, Glover attended The Mirman School from grade one through nine. He then attended both Venice High School (Los Angeles)|Venice High for grade ten and eleven and Beverly Hills High School only for the senior year of grade twelve and graduated in 1982.

Career

Acting career

Glover began acting professionally at the age of 13. He appeared in several sitcom s as a teenager , including Happy Days and Family Ties . His first film role was in 1983's My Tutor . That led to roles in Teachers (film)|Teachers (1984) and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984). He then worked with director Trent Harris on the third chapter of the Beaver Trilogy , entitled The Orkly Kid . In this short film, he portrayed a small town man who organizes a local talent show to showcase his obsession with Olivia Newton-John , much to the embarrassment of the local community. At the climax of the film, Glover does his rendition, in full drag (clothing)|drag , of Newton-John's "Please Don't Keep Me Waiting" from her 1979 album Totally Hot .

His breakout role was as George McFly in Robert Zemeckis 's Back to the Future , an international box office success following its release in 1985. Glover did not, however, come to an agreement with the producers to appear in the sequels. Zemeckis used some previously filmed footage of Glover from the first movie in Back to the Future Part II (Glover being billed as 'George McFly in footage from Back to the Future ' in the closing credits) and inter-spliced new footage of Jeffrey Weissman , who was introduced using prosthetics (including a false chin, nose and cheekbones) and various obfuscating methods & ndash; background, sunglasses, rear shot, even upside down & ndash; to play the role of George McFly in the sequels. Because the producers put another actor in make-up to make that actor look like Glover, and inter-spliced that footage of him from the first film in order to fool audiences in to believing he was in the second film, Glover sued the producers (including Steven Spielberg ) on the grounds that the producers did not own Glover's likeness. Because of Glover's lawsuit, there are now clauses in The Screen Actors Guild (TV/Film performer labor union) collective bargaining agreements to the effect that producers and actors are not able to do such things. The case was settled out of court and became one of the most important factors in SAG rule history.

He has continued to play exceedingly eccentricity (behaviour)|eccentric types, e.g., playing Andy Warhol in Oliver Stone 's The Doors (film)|The Doors in 1991 in film|1991 , as well as the title characters in Bartleby (2001 film)|Bartleby ( 2001 in film|2001 ) and Willard (2003 movie)|Willard ( 2003 in film|2003 ). He received mainstream attention as the "Thin Man" in the '' Charlie's Angels (film)|Charlie's Angels films; the character had initially been cast as a speaking role, but Glover, noting that the lines as written were exposition, convinced the producers to eliminate the lines to create a darker image for the character.

Glover was a co-interlocutor with Norm Hill and Werner Herzog for the special feature commentary for the DVD of Werner Herzog 's Even Dwarfs Started Small and Fata Morgana (1972 film)|Fata Morgana .

Glover starred in the 2007 in film|2007 film Beowulf (2007 film)|Beowulf as the monster Grendel , playing the part via performance capture technology. The film was Glover's first collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis since the original Back to the Future film.

Late Night appearance

Glover controversially appeared on Late Night with David Letterman on July 28, 1987, to promote the movie '' River's Edge , in which he starred. Unbeknownst to Letterman and the audience, Glover appeared in character as "Rubin", from a then-unreleased movie Rubin and Ed '', wearing platform shoe s and a wig . Rather than a conventional interview, Glover staged an Andy Kaufman -like prank. After being goaded by a woman in the audience (who some argue had been planted), Glover stated that he "knew that this was gonna happen" and that "the press, they can do things, they can twist things around". After challenging David Letterman|Letterman to an arm-wrestling match, Glover delivered an impromptu karate kick a few feet from Letterman while stating, "I'm strong... I can kick!" Letterman then abruptly ended the segment by walking off stage, saying "I'm going to check on the Top 10", as the program cut to commercial.

The subsequent confusion and controversy surrounding his appearance was compounded by the fact that Rubin and Ed was not actually released until 1991; however, the movie had been in development since before Back to the Future & nbsp;— Crispin had actually already devised Rubin's "look" by 1985. Almost no-one, apparently including Letterman, understood what Glover was doing and the interview became the hallmark of the "weird" TV guest.

Glover returned to the Letterman show twice after that, the first nearly a month later, and then again almost 3 years after where he participated in a more nearly standard interview, but made it questionable whether he was ever on the show before and used a variety of delay tactics explaining the incident; he did say something about it being "an interesting thing." Glover then appeared two years later promoting a record album. When again asked about his first appearance, Glover launched into a long story, mentioning meeting a fellow resembling himself named Rubin, and needing to appear on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson simultaneous to his appearance with Letterman. Here Letterman cut him off to talk about the album Glover was promoting, as the time allotted for the interview was more than halfway over. Glover has subsequently refused to go into detail about the reasons for his behavior on the show, other than to mention that he's flattered that fans are still speculating on the performance more than 20 years later.. Retrieved 2009-12-24. Glover has also mentioned that he prefers there to be an "air of mystery" about the appearance.

Music

In 1989, during a hiatus from films, Glover released an album called The Big Problem ? The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be|The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be through Restless Records , produced by Barnes & Barnes (of " Fish Heads (song)|Fish Heads " fame). The album features original songs like "Clowny Clown Clown", odd versions of Lee Hazlewood 's " These Boots Are Made for Walkin' " and Charles Manson 's "I'll Never Say Never to Always" (sung in falsetto ), and readings from his art books Rat Catching and Oak Mot (see Books section below). Sample pages from these books are featured in the album's liner notes.

The back cover of the album is a collage of figures relating to each track on the album, with an inscription: "All words and lyrics point to THE BIG PROBLEM. The solution lay within the title; LET IT BE. Crispin Hellion Glover wants to know what you think these nine things all have in common." He included a telephone number on the back of the album, encouraging listeners to phone when they had figured out the element that all pieces had in common. He has said the telephone number was a pre-internet way of letting people know about the books. As for the "Nine things in common" Glover has said "It is really just the theme of the album." Glover later commented that he was surprised how many people realized what it was.

In 2003, he recorded a version of the Michael Jackson song " Ben (song)|Ben " to coincide with the release of the film Willard (2003 film)|Willard . In the eccentric music video for the song, which is included on the Willard DVD, he sings to a rat named Ben.

A number of songs using Glover's name as the title have been recorded by various artists, including Shoegaze/Gothic Rock band Scarling. and Chicago outsider music|outsider musician Wesley Willis . In the early 2000s a Kansas City band named itself Onward Crispin Glover after receiving the blessing of Glover.

Books

Glover has written between 15 and 20 books. Oak-Mot and Rat Catching are featured prominently during his Big Slide Show presentation, and are presented as visual art as much as written art. He constructs the books by reusing old novels and other publications which have fallen into public domain due to their age (for example, Rat Catching was constructed from an 1896 book Studies in the Art of Rat Catching , and Oak-Mot was constructed from an 1868 novel of the same title). He rearranges text, blacks out certain standing passages, and adds his own prose (and sometimes images) into the margins and elsewhere, thus creating an entirely new story. Four of his books have been published so far, through his publishing company, Volcanic Eruptions . Other known titles include The Backward Swing , A New World and Round My House .

Year†	Title
1982	Billow and the Rock ‡
1988	Rat-Catching
1989	Oak-Mot
1990	Concrete Inspection *
1992	What it is, and How it is Done •

†The publishing years listed above may not represent first edition publication dates, but may include subsequent available editions.

‡Not published.

*Re-issued.

•Out of Print.

Directorial work

Glover made his directorial debut with 2005's What Is It? , a surrealism|surreal film featuring a cast of actors with Down syndrome . It premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival . The movie, with a budget of only $150,000, took almost a decade to complete and was originally intended to be a short film. Most of the primary footage was shot in 12 days, stretched over a two-and-a-half year period. Production was mostly funded by the actor's roles in Willard (2003 film)|Willard and the '' Charlie's Angels (film)|Charlie's Angels '' films. Glover's second film, It Is Fine& #33; Everything Is Fine. was written by Utah writer-actor Steven C. Stewart. Stewart was born with a severe case of cerebral palsy and had been confined to a nursing home for about ten years. The second film is a fantastical psycho-sexual re-telling of life from Stewart's point of view. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival . Glover is planning a third film called It Is Mine which will end the It? Trilogy.

Filmography

Year !! Film !! Character
1981	Best of Times	Crispin
1982	The Facts of Life (TV series)>The Facts of Life	Cadet #1
1983 in film	The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
	My Tutor	Jack
	High School U.S.A.	Archie Feld
	Happy Days	Roach
	Hill Street Blues	Space Cadet
1984	Family Ties	Doug
	Racing with the Moon	Gatsby Boy
	Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter	Jimbo Anderson
	Teachers	Danny
1985	The Orkly Kid	Larry
1985	Back to the Future	George McFly
1986	At Close Range	Lucas
1986	'' River's Edge	Layne
1989	Twister (1989 film)>Twister	Howdy
1990	Where the Heart Is	Lionel
1990	Wild at Heart	Dell
1991	Rubin and Ed	Rubin Farr
	Little Noises	Joey
	Ferdydurke	Mintus
	The Doors	Andy Warhol
1993	Hotel Room	Danny
	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	Howard Barth
	'' What's Eating Gilbert Grape	Bobby McBurney
1994	Chasers	Howard Finster
1995	Dead Man	Train Fireman
1996	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Arlo
2000	Nurse Betty	Roy Ostery
2000	Charlie's Angels	The Thin Man
2001	Bartleby	Bartleby
2001	Fast Sofa	Jules Langdon
2002	Crime and Punishment (2002 film)>Crime and Punishment	Raskolnikov
2002	Like Mike	Stan Bittleman
2003	Willard	Willard Stiles
2003	'' Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	The Thin Man
2004	Incident at Loch Ness	Party Guest
2005	What Is It?	Dueling Demi-God Auteur / The young man's inner psyche
2005	Drop Dead Sexy	Eddie
2006	Simon Says (film)>Simon Says	Simon / Stanley
2007	Epic Movie	Willy
	Wizard of Gore (2007 film)>The Wizard of Gore	Montag the Magnificent
	It is Fine. Everything is Fine!	(director)
	Beowulf (2007 film)>Beowulf	Grendel
2008	Open Season 2	Fifi (Open Season)>Fifi (voice only)
2008	Freezer Burn:The Invasion of Laxdale	Viergacht
2009	Party (film)>The Donner Party	William Foster
2009	9	6 (voice only)
2010	Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)>Alice in Wonderland	Adventures in Wonderland)>The Knave of Hearts
	Hot Tub Time Machine	Phil
	Open Season 3	Fifi (Open Season)>Fifi (voice only)

Television work

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