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Thomas F. Wilson

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Thomas F. Wilson

Born Apr 15, 1959 · 67 years110 titles 46 movies · 64 TV
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Biography

Thomas Francis Wilson (born April 15, 1959) is an American actor, writer, musician, painter, voice-over artist and stand-up comedian. He is best known for playing Biff Tannen (and his grandson Griff Tannen and great-grandfather Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen) in the Back to the Future trilogy and Coach Ben Fredricks on NBC's Freaks and Geeks. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas F. Wilson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

Tom Wilson · Thomas Wilson

Born

Apr 15, 1959

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

110

Acting credits

1

Directing

3

Writing

1

Other crew

Most critically rated

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Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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1962 1 title(s)

1979 1 title(s)

1982 2 title(s)

1985 2 title(s)

1986 2 title(s)

1988 1 title(s)

1989 2 title(s)

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1991 1 title(s)

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2002 4 title(s)

2003 6 title(s)

2004 5 title(s)

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2008 2 title(s)

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2010 2 title(s)

2011 4 title(s)

2012 2 title(s)

2013 4 title(s)

2015 3 title(s)

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2017 1 title(s)

2018 5 title(s)

2021 3 title(s)

2023 1 title(s)

2024 1 title(s)

2025 2 title(s)