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.
Career 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. 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, co-founder of the New York International Fringe Festival with John Clancy and Aaron Beall, and an advisor for the Hollywood Fringe Festival during its first seven years. He is also the creator of Theatrism, a metaphysical approach to theatrical staging.
Personal life He lives in Los Angeles, California. He was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana.
Filmography
Film +YearTitleRoleNotes199327 Pieces of MeBold1997A, B, C... ManhattanZach1999Fight ClubInspector Dent1999The Woman ChaserPiano Player1999MagnoliaSmiling Peanut Patron #22000The Million Dollar HotelReporter2000Me, Myself & IreneDisabled Guy2001Say It Isn't SoStewart2001Ghost WorldWeird Al2001The Man from Elysian FieldsConstruction Forman2001RainOfficer Ben Patterson2002SecretaryTyping Teacher2004In the Land of Milk and MoneyHaggard Dad2004Zen NoirEd2005The Rain MakersLou2006Art School ConfidentialLeslie2006BondageFred2006The Hills Have EyesGoggle2006The Gold BraceletMurderer2006The PrestigeTicket Hawker2006Outta SyncPoppy Poppenheimer (The DJ)2007The Haunting of Marsten ManorHank2007Boxboarders!Zoltar2007UnderdogReferee2007HalloweenGraveyard KeeperUncredited2008JuliaGeorge2008Spy SchoolMr. Bailey2008Skeletons in the DesertBob Chamberlain2008MirrorsTerrence Berry2008Trickery MimicryPassenger2009Someone's Knocking at the DoorJohn Hopper2009Tripping ForwardCasting Director #12009Scream of the BikiniCult Leader2010New Terminal HotelSpitz2010The AuctioneersDean2010Darkening SkyGuy2011The ArtistJournalist2011Breath of HateHate2012Bad AssStore Clerk2012Any Day NowLarry2012Dust UpSheriff Nathan Haggler2012Lost LakeVern2013Dug UpDevin Chase2014Real HeroesThe Announcer2015The Last HouseHate2016Gone: VR 360Mr. Avery2016Trash FirePastor Sterling2016The ChairTudley2016The Holy ManHomeless Digger Otis2017MohawkHezekiah Holt2018Nightmare CinemaJanitor / Ron / Thing20192177: The San Francisco Love Hacker CrimesThornton2020The Nowhere InnLimo Driver2020The EstateMr. Amis2020BleachSpecial Agent Musk2023Brooklyn 45Mjr. Paul DiFranco 2023Dark HarvestThe Farmer 2025DorotheaChief
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1998Sabrina the Teenage WitchClerk #2Episode: "Sabrina and the Beanstalk"1998The Jamie Foxx ShowHotel GuestEpisode: "Jamie Returns"1998The Secret Diary of Desmond PfeifferGeorge AxelrodEpisode: "School Daze"1998Party of FiveLeonEpisode: "Tender Age"1999The Magnificent SevenBankerEpisode: "Sins of the Past"1999Hyperion BayMechanicEpisode: "Strange Days"1999The Norm ShowMr. GreyEpisode: "Norm Dates a Client"1999G vs EBeanEpisode: "Evilator"2000The HughleysBean PusherEpisode: "Two Jacks and a Beanstalk"2000Buffy the Vampire SlayerBartenderEpisode: "Family"2001The HuntressHaskell BeauvilleEpisode: "With Great Power"2003Karen SiscoDesk ClerkEpisode: "Nostalgia"200410-8: Officers on DutyFreddyEpisode: "Love Don't Love Nobody"2005Strong MedicineBartenderEpisode: "Paternity Test"2006WindfallManEpisode: "Running with the Devil"2008WeedsOritzEpisode: "Lady's a Charm"2008LeverageFrankEpisode: "The Bank Shot Job"2009How I Met Your MotherHighway Cop #1Episode: "As Fast as She Can"2009–2011Poor PaulBradford5 episodes2010–2012JustifiedHarvey Jones / Roy the Bartender4 episodes2011Melissa & JoeyCarlEpisode: "Mel and Joe's Anniversary"2012Criminal MindsLouis SillsEpisode: "Heathridge Manor"2012BonesEphraim BabcockEpisode: "The Family in the Feud"2013American Horror StorySedated PatientEpisode: "The Name Game"2013–2018The MiddleWayne4 episodes2014EnlistedPrivate SwaggleEpisode: "Pilot"2014CrossbonesEisengrim8 episodes2016Teen WolfTraversEpisode: "Amplification"2017BasketsChuckEpisode: "Reverie"2017Law & Order True CrimeDDA Elliott Alhadeff2 episodes2018CounterpartRail Thin ManEpisode: "No Man's Land - Part Two"2019Doom PatrolDr. BertrandEpisode: "Paw Patrol"2020Into the DarkThe AdministratorEpisode: "The Current Occupant"2021Station 19JerryEpisode: "Learning to Fly"
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