Ezra Buzzington is an American character actor for film and TV.With over 50 film credits (and dozens of television appearances), Ezra Buzzington has been referred to as "the Dennis Hopper of underground cinema". He's played characters ranging from "Weird Al the Waiter" in Ghost World to "Goggle" (a mutant) in The Hills Have Eyes. He appeared in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture "The Artist" and has recurred on FX's "Justified" as Harvey Jones, County Clerk of Harlan County. He plays Oswald Eisengrim opposite John Malkovich as Blackbeard in NBC's network series Crossbones. He's worked with directors David Fincher (twice), Alexandre Aja (twice), Terry Zwigoff (twice), Rob Zombie (twice), Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, George Clooney, Clint Eastwood and the Farrelly Brothers (also twice). He's known as a chameleonic risk-taker who embraces a role without regard to the character's politically incorrect characteristics. "It's always about the script and the director." He has said. "I'll play roles other people shy away from because I believe these underbelly characters really need a voice."Known in professional theatrical circles as the "Father of the Fringe" movement in the United States, he is the Founder of the Seattle Fringe Festival, Co-Founder of the New York International Fringe Festival with John Clancy and Aaron Beall and Advisor for the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Originally cast for 6 of 10 episodes on the NBC series "Crossbones", after working with him on the first three shows, writer/show creator Neil Cross added Ezra's character Oswald Eisengrim to 3 more episodes.
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Active in regional theatre as well as film and television and a prolific writer and director for the stage.
With his Cockney dialect, he beat out several real British actors for his role as The Barker in The Prestige (2006). He's actually from Muncie, Indiana.
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Got his name from his maternal grandfather, who used it as his stage name when he headlined in vaudeville.
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The oft-quoted line "Get yer cock outta my Chrysler, you son of a bitch!" in Me, Myself & Irene (2000) was an ad-lib by Ezra on set. Jim Carrey suggested the walk that Ezra used as his handicapped character.
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Moments before shooting his scene in Secretary (2002), he looked down on the floor in his trailer and saw the ruler he uses to smack his hand as he's instructing the typing class. He wanted to use it, as he felt it was a good foreshadowing for Maggie Gyllenhaal's character's upcoming journey.
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