Ezra Buzzington

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Ezra Buzzington in 2008
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Occupation(s) Film, television actor

Ezra Buzzington is an American character actor in film and television. A figure in underground cinema, Buzzington is also the founder of the Seattle Fringe Festival and co-founder of the New York International Fringe Festival.

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Career

With over 60 film credits (and dozens of television appearances), Buzzington has been referred to as "the Dennis Hopper of underground cinema". He has played characters ranging from "Weird Al the Waiter" in Ghost World to "Goggle" (a mutant) in The Hills Have Eyes and Tudley in the Crime thriller film The Chair . [1] He also appeared in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture The Artist . He has worked with directors David Fincher (twice), Alexandre Aja (twice), Terry Zwigoff (twice), Rob Zombie (twice), David Slade (four times), Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, George Clooney, Clint Eastwood and the Farrelly Brothers (also twice). He was a series regular in the role of Oswald Eisengrim on NBC's Crossbones opposite John Malkovich's Blackbeard, recurred on NBC's Law & Order True Crime as DDA Elliot Alhadeff, recurred on ABC's The Middle as the hard of hearing co-worker of Neil Flynn's character, starred in an episode of CBS's How I Met Your Mother and made several appearances on Justified for FX.

He is the founder of the Seattle Fringe Festival,[ citation needed ] co-founder of the New York International Fringe Festival with John Clancy and Aaron Beall,[ citation needed ] and an advisor for the Hollywood Fringe Festival during its first seven years.[ citation needed ] He is also the creator of Theatrism, a metaphysical approach to theatrical staging.

Personal life

He lives in Los Angeles, California. [2] He was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana.[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
199327 Pieces of MeBold
1997 A, B, C... Manhattan Zach
1999 Fight Club Inspector Dent
1999 The Woman Chaser Piano Player
1999 Magnolia Smiling Peanut Patron #2
2000 The Million Dollar Hotel Reporter
2000 Me, Myself & Irene Disabled Guy
2001 Say It Isn't So Stewart
2001 Ghost World Weird Al
2001 The Man from Elysian Fields Construction Forman
2001RainOfficer Ben Patterson
2002 Secretary Typing Teacher
2004In the Land of Milk and MoneyHaggard Dad
2004 Zen Noir Ed
2005The Rain MakersLou
2006 Art School Confidential Leslie
2006 Bondage Fred
2006 The Hills Have Eyes Goggle
2006The Gold BraceletMurderer
2006 The Prestige Ticket Hawker
2006Outta SyncPoppy Poppenheimer (The DJ)
2007The Haunting of Marsten ManorHank
2007 Boxboarders! Zoltar
2007 Underdog Referee
2007 Halloween Graveyard KeeperUncredited
2008 Julia George
2008 Spy School Mr. Bailey
2008Skeletons in the DesertBob Chamberlain
2008 Mirrors Terrence Berry
2008Trickery MimicryPassenger
2009 Someone's Knocking at the Door John Hopper
2009 Tripping Forward Casting Director #1
2009Scream of the BikiniCult Leader
2010 New Terminal Hotel Spitz
2010The AuctioneersDean
2010 Darkening Sky Guy
2011 The Artist Journalist
2011 Breath of Hate Hate
2012 Bad Ass Store Clerk
2012 Any Day Now Larry
2012 Dust Up Sheriff Nathan Haggler
2012Lost LakeVern
2013Dug UpDevin Chase
2014Real HeroesThe Announcer
2015The Last HouseHate
2016Gone: VR 360Mr. Avery
2016 Trash Fire Pastor Sterling
2016The ChairTudley
2016The Holy ManHomeless Digger Otis
2017 Mohawk Hezekiah Holt
2018 Nightmare Cinema Janitor / Ron / Thing
20192177: The San Francisco Love Hacker CrimesThornton
2020 The Nowhere Inn Limo Driver
2020 The Estate Mr. Amis
2020BleachSpecial Agent Musk
2023 Brooklyn 45 Mjr. Paul DiFranco
2023 Dark Harvest The Farmer

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998 Sabrina the Teenage Witch Clerk #2Episode: "Sabrina and the Beanstalk"
1998 The Jamie Foxx Show Hotel GuestEpisode: "Jamie Returns"
1998 The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer George AxelrodEpisode: "School Daze"
1998 Party of Five LeonEpisode: "Tender Age"
1999 The Magnificent Seven BankerEpisode: "Sins of the Past"
1999 Hyperion Bay MechanicEpisode: "Strange Days"
1999 The Norm Show Mr. GreyEpisode: "Norm Dates a Client"
1999 G vs E BeanEpisode: "Evilator"
2000 The Hughleys Bean PusherEpisode: "Two Jacks and a Beanstalk"
2000 Buffy the Vampire Slayer BartenderEpisode: "Family"
2001 The Huntress Haskell BeauvilleEpisode: "With Great Power"
2003 Karen Sisco Desk ClerkEpisode: "Nostalgia"
2004 10-8: Officers on Duty FreddyEpisode: "Love Don't Love Nobody"
2005 Strong Medicine BartenderEpisode: "Paternity Test"
2006 Windfall ManEpisode: "Running with the Devil"
2008 Weeds OritzEpisode: "Lady's a Charm"
2008 Leverage FrankEpisode: "The Bank Shot Job"
2009 How I Met Your Mother Highway Cop #1Episode: "As Fast as She Can"
2009–2011 Poor Paul Bradford5 episodes
2010–2012 Justified Harvey Jones / Roy the Bartender4 episodes
2011 Melissa & Joey CarlEpisode: "Mel and Joe's Anniversary"
2012 Criminal Minds Louis SillsEpisode: "Heathridge Manor"
2012 Bones Ephraim BabcockEpisode: "The Family in the Feud"
2013 American Horror Story Sedated PatientEpisode: "The Name Game"
2013–2018 The Middle Wayne4 episodes
2014 Enlisted Private SwaggleEpisode: "Pilot"
2014 Crossbones Eisengrim8 episodes
2016 Teen Wolf TraversEpisode: "Amplification"
2017 Baskets ChuckEpisode: "Reverie"
2017 Law & Order True Crime DDA Elliott Alhadeff2 episodes
2018 Counterpart Rail Thin ManEpisode: "No Man's Land - Part Two"
2019 Doom Patrol Dr. BertrandEpisode: "Paw Patrol"
2020 Into the Dark The AdministratorEpisode: "The Current Occupant"
2021 Station 19 JerryEpisode: "Learning to Fly"

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