Crispin Glover Biography

Fast Facts

• Winner of a New Visions Award Special Mention at the 2007 Stiges-Catalonian International Film Festival for "It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine․"
• Received third place and a Chainsaw Award at the 2004 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards as best actor for "Willard․"
• Recipient of the Jury Award at the 2005 Ann Arbor Film Festival for best narrative film for "What Is It?"
• Recipient of the Carnet Jove Jury Award at the 2006 Stiges-Catalonian International Film Festival as Midnight X-Treme for "What Is It?"
• Attended The Mirman School, a private K through 8 school for mentally-gifted children
• Born to actors Bruce and Mary Elizabeth Glover
• Started the production company Volcanic Eruptions in 1987
• Best known for playing eccentric characters like George McFly in "Back to the Future," Andy Warhol in "The Doors" and Willard Stiles in "Willard․"
• Released an album entitled "The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be," with original songs such as "Clowny Clown Clown" and odd versions of Lee Hazlewood's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'․"
• Named for a Shakespearean speech in "Henry V" that his parents both enjoyed
• His inspirations are Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and Andy Kaufman