Crispin Glover

What's the deal with this guy? Gay, straight? He doesn't seem to do much acting anymore and he always seems to play odd, twitchy characters. Sometimes he looks ugly and other times he's strangely handsome and I'm curious where the bulk of his income comes from.

He lives on the cheap in Romania

R1 Crispin Glover has a beautiful mansion in the Czech Republic not Romania.

I bet he has sex rooms and hires local Czech trade.

Is he related to John Glover?

Unusual guy and I always liked him. Made pedo allegations against Spielberg I’m sure that wasn’t that great for his career.

Is Spielberg a pedo or what? I know he's a target for those QAnon whackadoodle types, but he's come up a lot in conversations over the years.

His Steven Spielberg… rant? The guy seems nuts.

I shall withhold comment.

He looks good in the AD pics.

He's a brilliant, fourth-wall dramatic artist. Just before the famous Letterman-kicking appearance, Glover went on the Tonight Show with Carson. It's glimpse into just how behind-the-curtain he's been cultivating his persona.

My favorite photo of Crispin Glover taken by the immensely talented Rocky Schenck.

He has an incredible head of hair. I’m jealous of that.

Another great photo of Crispin taken by Rocky Schenck...

He's still upset about how the producers of "Back To the Future II" stole his likeness, I don't blame him.

(These interviewers are subpar, by the way, I don't know how they're so popular)

He's who Warner Brothers should have cast as the Joker instead of Jared Leto. Admittedly instead of sending castmates dead rats and used condoms to get into the role he might have sent actual lethal booby traps, but would that really have been so bad?

I get him confused with Matthew Modine sometimes.

I know he does rent out rooms in his L.A. and CR houses on AirBnB. He'll even be home at some point for you to talk to. I imagine he's probably spying on you or do some elaborate psych experiment on you.

I love r17's suggestion of his casting him as the Joker. Would have been pitch perfect.

R18, Crispin starred alongside Matthew Modine in the oddly teen-boy erotic movie Birdie. Crispin's been in the biz for a while. Also, his lookalike dad is in Chinatown.

R20 Glover wasn't in Birdy.

His dad was one of the gay lovers villains in the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever.

That's Crispin HELLION Glover, to you!

I used to be subscribed to his newsletter so I know.

Wasn’t there a Saint Crispin?

I never say this about anyone but I could see him actually being asexual. There aren't many out there, but it wouldn't shock me if he's one of them.

R25, this is a stupid fact that is lodged into my brain- he does date women, and he's into role-play.

About the time he published that essay on Spielberg, he was on Letterman and scared him so much with his threatening behavior that Letterman stood up and backed away from him as the show broke for a commercial. By the time the show came back, security had escorted him away. Between those two things he had trouble getting work for a long time.

Note, btw, that the "essay" doesn't contain a single direct accusation. It is entirely a series of questions.

He's into playmate type models and antique gynecological equipment.

He wasn't asexual the night I spent a few hours alone with him in the early 90s.

I can tell just by looking at him that he's bisexual, has a big dick and is a freak between the sheets.

[quote] Is he related to John Glover?

Is he related to Julian Glover?

[quote] I could see him actually being asexual

Crude people say this man was asexual, but he would have used nicer, polysyllabic description.

Apparently, he held up production on Friday the 13th 4 by making them retrieve a toy airplane he flew into the lake. Such a weird and funny story.

Trisha Paytas claimed to have fucked him. If true, he must have very low standards.

A young Crispin Glover with long hair has always reminded me of Paula Poundstone.

Essays can contain nothing but questions.

[Probably a smart approach to write questions instead of statements that could temp Spielberg to put him through an expensive legal battle.]

The Letterman "kicking" incident was all pure "theater."

Masterful drama too.

Crispin was in a movie-character costume.

He revisited Letterman and looked very dashing.

(But still played a character.)

He never talks about working with Eric Stoltz and the whole casting controversary. Weird.

I love him, whatever he is.

Most people, I would be surprised to discover there were a lot of bodies buried in their basement.

I'd be surprised if Glover DOESN'T have bodies there.

He has talked about the Stoltz thing, but not as much as other BTTF cast members.

Where the hell does he get his money, is he from wealth?

In the AD interview, he stated this, "I had considered purchasing a farm in upstate New York to shoot productions, and a Manhattan apartment. Purchasing the chateau ended up making more sense and working out."

Real estate isn't cheap. Upstate NY is now getting rather expensive, let alone a Manhattan co-op or condo. Crispin rarely works, if he does, it's in an indie film.

Crispin is not related to Julian or John Glover, but his father, Bruce Glover, is an actor.

"Glover is an only child, born in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles with his family at the age of five.

He is the son of actor Bruce Glover and actress and dancer Marion Elizabeth Lillian Betty Krachey, who retired upon his birth. He was named after the Saint Crispin's Day speech from William Shakespeare's 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 Germanic middle name, Herbert.

Glover's father is of English, Czech, and Swedish descent, while his mother has Czech (area surrounding Milevsko) and German ancestry. As a child, Glover attended the Mirman School from first through ninth grades. He then attended both Venice High for 10th and 11th grades, and Beverly Hills High School for 12th grade; he graduated in 1982."

"Glover is not married, nor does he have children, citing his busy career as one of the reasons for which he feels unfit to be a father, as he feels that a father should be there for his children. From 2001 to 2003, Glover dated Alexa Lauren, a Penthouse magazine 'Pet of the Month' for September 1999."

He happens to be related to Danny Glover.

Trisha Paytas is repulsive. The dude has BAAAAD taste.

The Penthouse chick wasn't so attractive either.

Crispin Glover and I are the same age, 58. I've always liked him as an actor, very odd,, peculiar, but charismatic, eccentric persona, mysterious, I like his freaky vibe in a good way, he's very intoxicating, hypnotic, you can't take your eyes off him. CG as the Joker would have been Wild! :-)

[quote]He happens to be related to Danny Glover.

You mean he's had relations with Danny?

He put out a recording: “ THE BIG PROBLEM ≠ the solution. The Solution = LET IT BE”; my friend lent me the cassette tape in 1990. I still have no fucking idea what it was about. Has anyone here ever heard of it/heard it? At the time, I only really knew him from the David Letterman appearance…

His aunt, Gladys Glover was temporarily the toast of New York City.

R49. I love old pics of Manhattan. Is that Columbus Circle? Or maybe Lincoln Center decades ago?

I respect him because he's one of very few legit left-wingers in Hollywood.

He's mesmerizing and off-putting, at the same time.

Correct me if I’m wrong but it seemed like, after Back to the Future, he expected to be some enormous Hollywood star but was actually quite difficult to work with? Maybe he has some personality disorder? Or is just genuinely an oddball?

Is the Czech mansion part of his trolling?

Where is his money coming from? Good investments?

This man barely has enough of a career to sustain multiple homes and just living. Unless they become hits, most indie films don't make much money.

[quote]Is he related to John Glover?

Nope. Danny Glover.

He kicked David Letterman? My respect for him just increased.

He always looks like he's acting - even in crazed roles - which is ironic considering he should playing himself (as he has a reputation for being a major oddball). Friday the 1th 4 is (surprisingly) one of the very few times he's given a lived-in performance.

Crispin Glover is a fascinating, uniquely creative individual. I'd even go out on a limb and call him a true artist. He is one of those strange creatures that you can't pin down, can't fully understand, and whose eternal mystique inspires a lot of curiosity and conjecture.

He's also hot as hell. A misfit loner type who started out with a gangly body and an odd, angular face, and grew into his features in manhood. He's become very classically handsome as he's aged. That's usually a sign that a person hasn't worn themselves out with booze.

That Czech mansion is radically incredible. Impeccable taste, he has. Show me an LA-based actor that lives so well. (One assume's his Back To The Future royalties paid for the renovations. )

Good on him! We love to see an actor who doesn't play the Hollywood games and lives life on their own terms.

R48 I remember that bit of weirdness only because I worked in a music and movies store in 1990, when it was released. That was my first glimmer that Glover was perhaps even weirder than the characters he usually played.

I don't know whether I read this in an interview or saw him on a talk show. Glover said he, James Spader and some friends were at a strip club. During a routine, the stripper was bent in some odd position, saw them in the audience, and said something like "hey, aren't you James Spader?" This would have been back when Spader was in his 20s and his movie career was doing well.

He's a strange one, that guy. He can go from suave and debonair to weird with just the way he wears his hair.

This enfilade is a dream.

I liked his Mr World on American Gods.

But isn't he playing the same character all the time?

The album he did had a phone number on it. You can call and leave him a message snd tell him what you thought of the album.

The number still works: 213-464-5053.

I suspect that, like many/most in Hollywood, he has some kind of personality disorder. He seemed to sabotage his own career by getting too big for his boots after Back To the Future (which he was great in), believing that he was pretty much the star of the show and making unreasonable demands only to find out that, like pretty much anyone in the industry, he was actually rather dispensable. If you want to play the game you have to…well, play the game. I like him though, he seems a genuine eccentric.

He's always creeped me out. The Czech mansion is stunning, though.

r66, the area code changed for the Hollywood exchange 464. It's 323 now.

In the 00’s I worked with him at a radio station benefit/appearance in NJ, and sat next to him for two hours while the DJ interviewed him and volunteers answered phones. He showed up on time, was “on” on mic when was needed, but also solemn and kooky when required. He showed up for what was needed and did great. Despite all the antics in his career I found him remarkably bullshit-less. He looked exactly in person like he did on screen. Great head of hair.

Years later I interviewed him for a story about actors playing Warhol in films for Radar (that went nowhere) and he was the first legit actor to get back to me and answer all my questions. Again, he came across as a seasoned pro who had his act together.

My impression of him is that he’s eccentric to an extreme in how he wasn’t to be perceived, and he communicates that well. But behind the scenes he’s very organized and meticulous and has his act together.

R17 Agreed. He should have been cast in every role Jared Leto ever had.

For the uninitiated, please investigate THE BEAVER TRILOGY. Glover took part in filmed recreations of a bizarre incident in the late 70’s where a man (Richard LaVon Griffiths, aka Gary) convinced a local news crew to film him doing celebrity impersonations in an empty theater, including a notorious Olivia Newton John number. The original footage from 1979 is included, and then “fictionalized” starring a young Sean Penn, and again with Glover, both made in the early 80’s. The doc was released in 2000.

[quote] and said something like "hey, aren't you James Spader?

R62 Wow that's fascinating

One note actor who pretends to be weird all the time. Surprised at all you dummies falling for it. Do better.

I like him a lot. I don’t care if his weirdness is an “act” or not. Very unique presence.

My friends and I were obsessed with his cameo as Cousin Dell in Wild at Heart.

To this day, we scream at each other "I'm MAKING MY LUNCH!!"

R72 thank you. I MUST see that. I'll have a cocktail dînatoire and screen it for friends.

Do you think he’d have gone on to bigger things, mainstream wise, if he hadn’t pissed off the Back to the Future creators and had been featured in parts II and III? Is it possible he was blacklisted by Hollywood?

Beginning with R61, we have a bunch of bumpity Bump Bitches posting madly. R61 responds to a year old comment - probably one of hers - in a time zone far from North America or in the middle of the night. Then another dozen quick comments. This is how the troll sock puppets get their posting wings.

R77 oh my god, I've seen Wild at Heart and I have no memory of this at all. Must've blocked it out.

I think in some photos with his hair combed back he looks like an old claasic Hollywood star. Very handsome.

He was weird in that Charlie's Angels movie! I don't think he even had any dialogue, just weird actions/screams/hair thing.

Oh my God, here she comes. The "I know your entire posting history and habits and I'm calling you OUT" troll.

Who cares??

R80, get a LIFE

"He was weird in that Charlie's Angels movie! "

I thought he was great as the thin man. Creepy, deadly quirky. Perfect villain.

R80 On a thread about Crispin Glover, I hardly think this is a bad thing. You'd rather them bump another Trump thread? Something about royal family? J a n e t? T r a n s?

R84, we care for the following reasons:

The Bump Bitches aren't here to talk about Crispin Glover. They are here to get karma for their sockpuppet accounts. That's why they (they meaning you) bumped a year-old thread with no recent comments and nothing really new to say.

They use these sockpuppet accounts to spam the site with anti-trans, anti-Black, KKKlan Granny, anti-LGBT, and pro-conservatard threads and comments.

That's why it's important, when you see a thread being bumped, that you FF and block the thread bumper, unless it's totally obvious that the new post is relevant and timely, and not just an attempt at finding someplace to post for karma.

I provide the details such as the time of night posted and such, to point out that it's a person trying to get away with shit, and not posting in a sincere manner. Again, bump bitching is fake engagement with the goal of posting hate speech on The Datalounge.

Hope that helps, R84 and R61!

R87, how do you connect the bumping to hate speech beyond you simply saying so.

Maybe Glover was in the CR and decided to bump this thread. I have as much evidence for that as you do for your theory.

Crispin Glover is a King. He's just living his best life. He's more interesting than any of you weirdos.

R87 I think you have too much time on your hands.

Well, r74, it was funny when he related it. The stripper was contorted in some odd position during her routine and stopped to talk to James Spader.

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