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Full Name: Crispin Hellion Glover
Born: September 20, 1964, New York, New York
CRISPIN GLOVER moved to Los Angeles when he was four, and began acting while still in elementary school. His father is actor Bruce Glover and his mother is a former dancer-actress.
A talented child actor who had an agent by the age of 13, Glover won a co-starring role in the Los Angeles production of "The Sound of Music" starring Florence Henderson. While attending both Venice and Beverly Hills High, he also found time for acting classes with such coaches as Dan Mason and Peggy Feury.
After high school, he appeared on television series such as Hill St. Blues, Family Ties and Happy Days. "It was just about this time that I decided to focus in on motion pictures," Glover recalls. "I think it's important to know your direction".
As the 47-year-old George McFly in Back to the Future, Glover's on-set performances often broke up both the cast and crew. Borrowing a low but quirky voice from an old acting teacher he once knew, his posture and hand gestures seem to take on a life of their own....until he is no longer a fresh-faced high school student, but a rather sad-faced suburban male, just struggling to keep up. "I used to play with a character like that in acting classes," he notes. "I also borrowed from my father, using some of the gestures I've grown up watching."
Off-camera, Glover is known as an eccentric dresser ("I prefer old clothes") and drives a 1961 convertible Studebaker. He enjoys painting, and in fact convinced co-star Lea Thompson to paint a canvas with him one night during the production.
Back to the Future marked Glover's fifth feature film. He was seen in Teachers appearing with Nick Nolte and Ralph Macchio as a rebellious high school student who is shot by the police. His other film credits include Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter, Racing with the Moon and My Tutor. He is particularly proud of a film which he starred in at the American Film Institute in 1984 called The Orkly Kid.
It's uncertain exactly why Glover declined to reprise his role as George McFly for the two Back to the Future sequels. Sources close to the projects say that he wanted too much money, script aproval, and various other heavy demands upon the filmmakers. Others say he just didn't want to be stereotyped into one character. For what ever reason, the filmmakers made some major rewrites on the scripts to make the part smaller, and replaced him with actor Jeffrey Weissman in some heavy prosthetics.
Aside from his film and television career, Crispin Glover had recorded a couple of albums. In 1989, he released The Big Problem Does Not Equal The Solution - The Solution Equals Let It Be. on the Restless label (#72316), which featured a remake of the Nancy Sinatra hit "These Boots Are Made For Walking". He has recorded a second album called The Big Love Album, which has yet to be released. He also writes his own literature and poems, and distributes them through his own publishing company called "Volcanic Eruptions". He has written several books to date, including Rat Catching (1987), Oak Mot (1990), and Concrete Inspection (1992).
He's been seen in the films The Doors, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and Chasers. He has also provided some voice-over work for the USA Network's animated series Duckman.
Crispin Glover still resides in Los Angeles.
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