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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.
With over 70 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 and the Oscar-nominated The Fabelmans . 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.
He lives in Los Angeles, California. [2] He was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana.[ citation needed ]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1993 | 27 Pieces of Me | Bold | |
| 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 | |
| 2001 | Rain | Officer Ben Patterson | |
| 2002 | Secretary | Typing Teacher | |
| 2004 | In the Land of Milk and Money | Haggard Dad | |
| 2004 | Zen Noir | Ed | |
| 2005 | The Rain Makers | Lou | |
| 2006 | Art School Confidential | Leslie | |
| 2006 | Bondage | Fred | |
| 2006 | The Hills Have Eyes | Goggle | |
| 2006 | The Gold Bracelet | Murderer | |
| 2006 | The Prestige | Ticket Hawker | |
| 2006 | Outta Sync | Poppy Poppenheimer (The DJ) | |
| 2007 | The Haunting of Marsten Manor | Hank | |
| 2007 | Boxboarders! | Zoltar | |
| 2007 | Underdog | Referee | |
| 2007 | Halloween | Graveyard Keeper | Uncredited |
| 2008 | Julia | George | |
| 2008 | Spy School | Mr. Bailey | |
| 2008 | Skeletons in the Desert | Bob Chamberlain | |
| 2008 | Mirrors | Terrence Berry | |
| 2008 | Trickery Mimicry | Passenger | |
| 2009 | Someone's Knocking at the Door | John Hopper | |
| 2009 | Tripping Forward | Casting Director #1 | |
| 2009 | Scream of the Bikini | Cult Leader | |
| 2010 | New Terminal Hotel | Spitz | |
| 2010 | The Auctioneers | Dean | |
| 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 | |
| 2012 | Lost Lake | Vern | |
| 2013 | Dug Up | Devin Chase | |
| 2014 | Real Heroes | The Announcer | |
| 2015 | The Last House | Hate | |
| 2016 | Gone: VR 360 | Mr. Avery | |
| 2016 | Trash Fire | Pastor Sterling | |
| 2016 | The Chair | Tudley | |
| 2016 | The Holy Man | Homeless Digger Otis | |
| 2017 | Mohawk | Hezekiah Holt | |
| 2018 | Nightmare Cinema | Janitor / Ron / Thing | |
| 2019 | 2177: The San Francisco Love Hacker Crimes | Thornton | |
| 2020 | The Nowhere Inn | Limo Driver | |
| 2020 | The Estate | Mr. Amis | |
| 2020 | Bleach | Special Agent Musk | |
| 2023 | Brooklyn 45 | Mjr. Paul DiFranco | |
| 2023 | Dark Harvest | The Farmer |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1998 | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | Clerk #2 | Episode: "Sabrina and the Beanstalk" |
| 1998 | The Jamie Foxx Show | Hotel Guest | Episode: "Jamie Returns" |
| 1998 | The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer | George Axelrod | Episode: "School Daze" |
| 1998 | Party of Five | Leon | Episode: "Tender Age" |
| 1999 | The Magnificent Seven | Banker | Episode: "Sins of the Past" |
| 1999 | Hyperion Bay | Mechanic | Episode: "Strange Days" |
| 1999 | The Norm Show | Mr. Grey | Episode: "Norm Dates a Client" |
| 1999 | G vs E | Bean | Episode: "Evilator" |
| 2000 | The Hughleys | Bean Pusher | Episode: "Two Jacks and a Beanstalk" |
| 2000 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Bartender | Episode: "Family" |
| 2001 | The Huntress | Haskell Beauville | Episode: "With Great Power" |
| 2003 | Karen Sisco | Desk Clerk | Episode: "Nostalgia" |
| 2004 | 10-8: Officers on Duty | Freddy | Episode: "Love Don't Love Nobody" |
| 2005 | Strong Medicine | Bartender | Episode: "Paternity Test" |
| 2006 | Windfall | Man | Episode: "Running with the Devil" |
| 2008 | Weeds | Oritz | Episode: "Lady's a Charm" |
| 2008 | Leverage | Frank | Episode: "The Bank Shot Job" |
| 2009 | How I Met Your Mother | Highway Cop #1 | Episode: "As Fast as She Can" |
| 2009–2011 | Poor Paul | Bradford | 5 episodes |
| 2010–2012 | Justified | Harvey Jones / Roy the Bartender | 4 episodes |
| 2011 | Melissa & Joey | Carl | Episode: "Mel and Joe's Anniversary" |
| 2012 | Criminal Minds | Louis Sills | Episode: "Heathridge Manor" |
| 2012 | Bones | Ephraim Babcock | Episode: "The Family in the Feud" |
| 2013 | American Horror Story | Sedated Patient | Episode: "The Name Game" |
| 2013–2018 | The Middle | Wayne | 4 episodes |
| 2014 | Enlisted | Private Swaggle | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2014 | Crossbones | Eisengrim | 8 episodes |
| 2016 | Teen Wolf | Travers | Episode: "Amplification" |
| 2017 | Baskets | Chuck | Episode: "Reverie" |
| 2017 | Law & Order True Crime | DDA Elliott Alhadeff | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Counterpart | Rail Thin Man | Episode: "No Man's Land - Part Two" |
| 2019 | Doom Patrol | Dr. Bertrand | Episode: "Paw Patrol" |
| 2020 | Into the Dark | The Administrator | Episode: "The Current Occupant" |
| 2021 | Station 19 | Jerry | Episode: "Learning to Fly" |
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