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Ezra Buzzington in 2008
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Born |
Jonathan Harris Muncie, Indiana |
Residence | Los Angeles, California |
Occupation | Film, television actor |
Ezra Buzzington (born Jonathan Harris) 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 and Tudley in the Crime thriller film The Chair. 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 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.
He lives in Los Angeles, California. He was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana.