Thomas F. Wilson - 1980s

1980s

Wilson had a small role in an episode of NBC's Knight Rider in 1984. His breakthrough role was as a bully named Biff Tannen in the movie Back to the Future. Wilson's talents as a comedian and an actor combined made Biff a character people loved to hate. When Back to the Future became a trilogy, he was asked to perform in these sequels again as Biff's grandson Griff and Biff's great-grandfather Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. His famous catchphrases are "What are you looking at, Butthead?", "Say hi to your mom for me", "Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here", "Hello! Hello, is anybody home?!", and the classics "Hey McFly!","Looky what we have here" and "Think McFly! Think!" In every Back to the Future film, he always ended up in a pile of manure—in each instance, Wilson's Tannen characters were always trying to kill or hurt Michael J. Fox's character Marty McFly. He reprised his role as Biff and voiced various Tannen relatives in the franchise's animated series. Wilson also played the role of a Detroit police officer in Action Jackson.