Crispin Glover
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The ThumbScore for Crispin Glover (71.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 22 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Crispin's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Audiences rate Crispin Glover’s films higher than 50% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): What's Eating Gilbert Grape (YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla, Pluto TV) · Dead Man (Fandango at Home, Shout! TV, Plex, Tubi) · Hot Tub Time Machine (Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · River's Edge (Hoopla) · Racing with the Moon (Kanopy) · Willard (Plex, Kanopy) and 3 more.
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Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is an American actor, filmmaker, author, and artist. He is known for portraying eccentric character roles on screen. His breakout role was as George McFly in Back to the Future (1985), which he followed by playing one of the leading roles in River's Edge (1986). Through the 1990s, Glover garnered attention for portraying smaller roles in films such as Wild at Heart (1990), The Doors (1991), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), and Dead Man (1995).
Starting with his role as the Thin Man in Charlie's Angels (2000), he began to star in more mainstream films. These films include a reprisal of the Thin Man in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Willard (2003), Beowulf (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Hot Tub Time Machine (2010). From 2017 to 2021, he starred as Mr. World in the Starz television series American Gods. Glover has published books, such as Rat Catching (1988), and has directed art films, such as What Is It? (2005), It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007), and No! YOU'RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance (2025).
Glover began acting professionally at the age of 13, his first role being Friedrich von Trapp in a theatre production of The Sound of Music at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with Florence Henderson. He appeared in several sitcoms as a teenager, including Happy Days and Family Ties. He appeared in a main role alongside Nicolas Cage in a television pilot titled The Best Of Times (1981), which aired on ABC, but was never picked up by the network. His first film role was in My Tutor (1983), which he subsequently followed with roles in Teachers and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (both 1984).
He then worked with director Trent Harris on the third chapter of the Beaver Trilogy, titled The Orkly Kid (1985). His breakout role was as George McFly in Robert Zemeckis's Back to the Future (1985), an international box-office success. During filming, Glover vocalized his objections to the film's ending, believing it to equate material reward with moral success. Zemeckis ignored his complaints. Due to these initial disagreements and a salary dispute, Glover did not return for either of the Back to the Future sequels, and his role was taken over by Jeffrey Weissman.
Born 1964-04-20 in New York City, New York, USA.
On ThumbScore, Crispin Glover appears in 22 films with an average audience score of 71.6%, most frequently in the Adventure genre.
