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Angus Scrimm Biography
Date of Birth 19 August 1926, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Date of Death 9 January 2016, Tarzana, California, USA (natural causes)
Birth Name Lawrence Rory Guy
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Bio:
The evil screen villain Angus Scrimm, most famous as "The Tall Man" in Don Coscarelli's Phantasm (1979) and its sequels, grew up in Kansas City, but in his teens moved to California and studied drama at USC under William C. de Mille (brother of Cecil B. DeMille). His film debut came as another "Tall Man" he played Abraham Lincoln in an educational film made by Encyclopaedia Brittanica, which led him to a steady career in theater, television and film. His big-screen debut was in Jim, the World's Greatest (1976), directed by then 18-year-old Coscarelli. During this time he was using his birth name, Lawrence Rory Guy. He adopted the stage name Angus Scrimm three years later for his performance in Coscarelli's horror/sci-fi opus "Phantasm", which would mark Scrimm's permanent impression upon modern cinema. His role as the infamous Tall Man has earned him the praise of critics worldwide, as well as a large following of fans. His success in the "Phantasm" films has been parlayed into numerous other malevolent roles including the evil Dr. Sin Do in The Lost Empire (1984), Vlad the Vampire King in Subspecies (1991) and the nefarious Dr. Lyme opposite Nicolas Cage and Charlie Sheen in Deadfall (1993). Scrimm did intriguing double duty as the diabolical Seer and the angelic Systems Operator in Mindwarp (1992), co-starring Bruce Campbell. He did a shock cameo in the Italian film Fatal Frames - Fotogrammi mortali (1996), opposite Stefania Stella and Donald Pleasence, and managed a gleeful parody of himself as the hulking henchman in Transylvania Twist (1989). Scrimm has not limited his career efforts to simply acting, however. As a journalist he has written and edited for "TV Guide", "Cinema Magazine", the now-defunct "Los Angeles Herald-Examiner" and other publications. He has also written liner notes for thousands of LPs and CDs, for just about every genre from classical music to jazz, from Frank Sinatra and The Beatles to Artur Rubinstein and Itzhak Perlman. He won a Grammy award for best album liner notes.
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His character of The Tall Man in the Phantasm movie series and in several parodies and commercials. / Deep voice / Towering height
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Has been nominated several times for Grammy Awards for his liner notes. He has won at least one Grammy Award. That is, he won exactly one Grammy Award as his alter-ego Rory Guy. The category was "Best Album Notes, Classical" and he won for his notes on "Korngold: The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold" in 1974.
In playing the Tall Man, he wore suits that were several sizes too small and a pair of special boots with lifts inside to make him appear taller.
Played the Tall Man in a satirical commercial for Fangoria Magazine, a horror magazine.
Because he was suffering from laryngitis, in the opening scene of Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998) his usually gravelly Tall Man voice sounded more like Orson Welles.
Being a teenager, he worked as a theater usher where he learned by heart all of the dialogue of the movie playing there, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943).
Turned up in his Tall Man costume and said "BOOYYY" when he was asked at a party thrown for a Hollywood Poster shop-owner Ron Borst. Then director Jim Wynorski, who was at this party, subsequently cast him for the role of evil Dr. Sin Do in a film he directed called The Lost Empire (1984).
Speaks French and Flemish.
He is reputed to be an excellent cook.
His stage name, Angus Scrimm, he made up himself, a combination of a relative's name and a stage curtain (called a scrim).
He has done stage work in recent years with the theater company of acclaimed writer Ray Bradbury.
Don Coscarelli wrote the character of "Buddy" in his episode of Masters of Horror (2005) specifically for him, out of necessity of making the story long enough to fit in an hour slot.
He claims he grew up admiring the works of William Powell, Cary Grant, and Ronald Colman.
He is a lover of the comedy genre. His dream acting job would be playing a funny part in a parlor comedy.
He is a devoted fan of classic black and white horror films such as Frankenstein (1931) and Dracula (1931). He reportedly dislikes brutality in movies and gore for gore's sake.
He played the role of a funeral director in an episode of Santa Barbara (1984).
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Films:
Dances with Werewolves
Neumann
2016 Phantasm: Ravager
The Tall Man
2015 Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story
Percy
2014 Disciples
Winston - Azazel
2013 The Trick Is the Treat (Short)
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2012 John Dies at the End
Father Shellnut
2011 Femme Fatales (TV Series)
- The Clinic (2011) ... Dr. Chandler
2010 Satan Hates You
Dr, Michael Gabriel
2009 Spaceman on Earth (Short)
Mr. Grouch
2008 I Sell the Dead
Dr. Quint
2008 Red 71
Coroner
2006 Automatons
The Scientist
2006 Robert and Theresa (Short)
William
2006 Satanic
Dr. Barbary
2005 Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (TV Series)
- Season of the Skull (2005) ... Magistrate (voice)
2005 Masters of Horror (TV Series)
- Incident on and Off a Mountain Road (2005) ... Buddy
2001-2005 Alias (TV Series)
- In Dreams... (2005) ... Calvin McCullough
- Phase One (2003) ... Calvin McCullough
- Snowman (2002) ... Calvin McCullough
- Masquerade (2002) ... Calvin McCullough
- A Broken Heart (2001) ... Calvin McCullough
2004 The Off Season
Ted
2003 Coupling (TV Series)
- Present Tense (2003) ... Manny
2003 The Jersey (TV Series)
- Origins: Part 1 (2003) ... Merlin
2002 Legend of the Phantom Rider
Preacher
2001 The Nightmare Room (TV Series)
- Locker 13 (2001) ... The Fatemaster
2001 FreakyLinks (TV Series)
- Subject: The Harbingers (2001) ... Wilson Ashcroft
2000 Bel Air
Photographer
1998-1999 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (TV Series)
- The Find/The Golden Cue/The FBI Story/The Gravedigger's Nemesis/Last Rites (1999) ... Pete Ringwald (The Gravedigger's Nemesis)
- The Getaway (1998) ... Pete Ringwald
1998 Phantasm IV: Oblivion
The Tall Man / Dr. Jebediah Morningside
1997 Wishmaster
Narrator (voice)
1996 Vampirella (Video)
High Elder
1996 Fatal Frames - Fotogrammi mortali
Man in Grey
1994 Munchie Strikes Back
Kronas
1994 Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
The Tall Man
1993 Deadfall
Dr. Lyme
1992 Mindwarp
Seer / Systems Operator
1992 Munchie
Undertaker
1991 Subspecies
King Vladislav
1989 The Nutt House (TV Series)
- Suites, Lies and Videotape (1989) ... Grim Reaper
1989 Transylvania Twist
Stefen
1988 Phantasm II
The Tall Man
1986 Chopping Mall
Dr. Carrington (as Lawrence Guy)
1985 First Strike
Soviet Destroyer Captain (as Lawrence Guy)
1985 Witches' Brew
Carl Groton (as Lawrence Guy)
1984 Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series)
- Dark Side of the Loon (1984) ... Bum (as Lawrence Guy)
1984 The Lost Empire
Dr. Sin Do / Lee Chuck
1981 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV Series)
- Walt Disney: One Man's Dream (1981) ... Elias Disney (as Lawrence Guy)
1979 Salvage 1 (TV Series)
- Golden Orbit: Part 2 (1979) ... NASA Doctor (as Lawrence Guy)
1979 Phantasm
The Tall Man
1978 Secrets of Three Hungry Wives (TV Movie)
Man Guest (as Lawrence Guy)
1978 Project U.F.O. (TV Series)
- Sighting 4008: The Desert Springs Incident (1978) ... Malan (as Lawrence Guy)
1978 Quincy M.E. (TV Series)
- Gone But Not Forgotten (1978) ... 2nd Executive (as Lawrence Guy)
1977 A Piece of the Action
Monk (as Lawrence Guy)
1976 Jim, the World's Greatest
Jim's Father (as Rory Guy)
1973 Scream Bloody Murder
Dr. Epstein (as Rory Guy)
1972 Sweet Kill
Henry (as Rory Guy)
1951 Abraham Lincoln (Short)
Abraham Lincoln