
Wilson played McKinley High School's Coach Ben Fredricks in the 1999–2000 NBC comedy drama Freaks and Geeks. He also guest starred in an episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in 1997.
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Wilson also starred in the sequels Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1995) and Wing Commander: Prophecy (1997) and contributed his voice to the animated series Wing Commander Academy (1996) in the same role. The character played by Wilson was Major Todd "Maniac" Marshall, a fellow starfighter pilot to Hamill's character. It was the third chapter in the Wing Commander series, but the first to feature live action and was extremely popular at the time. He later went to co-star with Mark Hamill in the video game Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger. In 1992, he voiced gangster Tony Zucco in Batman: The Animated Series and police detective Matt Bluestone in the animated series Gargoyles. When the game was ported to the PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in 2015 in commemoration of the original film's 30th anniversary, Wilson returned to provide Biff's voice in these newer versions. Wilson did not reprise his role as Biff in the initial versions of Telltale's Back to the Future: The Game released in 2011, being replaced by Kid Beyond. He reprised his role as Biff and voiced various Tannen relatives in the animated series. In each Back to the Future film, his character ends up in a pile of manure after trying to kill or hurt Michael J. He returned in the sequels Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III to not only reprise his role as Biff, but to also play Biff's grandson Griff Tannen and great-grandfather Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Wilson's breakthrough role was as the bully Biff Tannen in the 1985 film Back to the Future. He had a small role in the second season of NBC's Knight Rider in an episode titled "A Knight In Shining Armor". He shared an apartment with fellow aspiring comedians Andrew Dice Clay and Yakov Smirnoff, and later joked that he "taught them both about America". In 1981, Wilson moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. In 1979, he got his first significant stage experience as a comedian. He studied international politics at Arizona State University and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. While attending Radnor High School, he was involved in dramatic arts, served as president of the debate team (where his partner was future New York Times columnist David Brooks), played the tuba in the high school band, and was the drum major of the school marching band. was born in Philadelphia on April 15, 1959, and grew up in nearby Wayne.

He also played coach Ben Fredricks in the comedy series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and voices various characters, mainly villains, on the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants (2001–present). He is best known for playing Biff Tannen, Griff Tannen, and Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990).

(born April 15, 1959) is an American actor and comedian.
