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Angus Scrimm
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19 August 1926 - 9 January 2016
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Lawrence Rory Guy, known to moviegoers as Angus Scrimm, is an American television and film actor.
Angus was born in the American city of Kansas City on August 19, 1926.
As a teenager, he moved to California, where he enrolled at the University of Southern California to study drama. However, in the first semester, he contracted tuberculosis and was forced to spend two years on treatment, which went to study the masterpieces of world classics, such as Leo Tolstoy and others.
His first film work—before
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Lawrence Rory Guy, known to moviegoers as Angus Scrimm, is an American television and film actor.
Angus was born in the American city of Kansas City on August 19, 1926.
As a teenager, he moved to California, where he enrolled at the University of Southern California to study drama. However, in the first semester, he contracted tuberculosis and was forced to spend two years on treatment, which went to study the masterpieces of world classics, such as Leo Tolstoy and others.
His first film work—before Scrimm began working in theater—was an educational film in which he starred as Abraham Lincoln. However, after that, the future actor had a big break, and his creative career in big cinema began far over forty. Around this time, he met eighteen-year-old director Don Oscarelli, who invited Angus to take part in the film.
World's Best Jim .
This stage was followed by an even more significant, perhaps the most memorable role in the entire creative path of the actor. We are talking about Verzila, the character of the horror film “Fantasm”, which is a classic for horror fans. Angus Scrimm perfectly blended into the image of his character, a kind of humanized equivalent of Death, entered the human world. This role was not accompanied by extensive dialogue, so it needed a man with a colorful texture, which was Skrimm. Giant height, solid age in combination with hair sprinkled with gray hair, a lanky figure and a tall sole with a charcoal shortened suit. It was in this film that the actor acquired his image, which became his hallmark for many decades to come: a good-natured face of a grotesque image with a raised eyebrow, a squinted eye and a protruding lower jaw.
The film was so popular that over the next twenty years, its sequels appeared three times. The last of them was released in 1998 and received the name
"Fantasm 4: Forgetting" .
In addition, viewers of the actor remembered his play in such films as “I Trade the Dead”, “Death Fall”, “Subspecies”, as well as “Mind Clouding”, “Satan Hates You” and “Masters of Horrors”.