Thomas F. Wilson

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1959 age 0

   Born

2. 1985 age 26

   CreditBack to the Future

3. 1989 age 30

   CreditBack to the Future Part II

4. 1990 age 31

   CreditBack to the Future Part III

5. 2013 age 54

   CreditThe Heat

6. 2016 age 57

   CreditLegends of Tomorrow

• RZRobert Zemeckis3 titles
• ASAlan Silvestri3 titles
• ASArthur Schmidt3 titles
• SSSteven Spielberg3 titles
• BGBob Gale3 titles
• CLChristopher Lloyd3 titles
• LTLea Thompson3 titles
• CGCrispin Glover3 titles
• MFMichael J. Fox3 titles
• JTJames Tolkan3 titles

• A thin and sickly kid, I was pushed around and beaten up by bullies throughout my childhood, until I grew bigger than everybody and it stopped, I knew very well how they operate, and specifically the joy they take in scaring people. I’d stared them in the face so often that it wasn’t particularly challenging to do an impression.

  Thomas F. Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The interchanges I would have — of course, most of them were positive, and most people understand the movie, but there were plenty where the guys would want to put me in a headlock, or push me around a bit, or get into a little tussle with 'that tough guy from Back To The Future, because he’s not that tough after all'. Well, I’m not that tough after all, because I’m an actor; because it’s pretend! And I think that social media, the greater intimacy, maybe — I mean, part of it is false intimacy, but part of it’s real intimacy; you can go and see things about an actor, that’s kind of why I do the YouTube thing, to present, ‘this is me as a person’, that the audience, now, the pop cultural audience, is a more sophisticated audience and a more multi-faceted audience.

  Thomas F. Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Languages

English

Years active

1983–

Notable works

Biff Tannen

Education

Arizona State University, Radnor High School