Angus Scrimm

Angus Scrimm (19 August 1926-9 January 2016), born as Lawrence Rory Guy, was an American actor and author, best known for playing the Tall Man in the 1979 horror film Phantasm and its sequels.

Biography
Scrimm was born in Kansas City, Kansas. In his teens moved to California and studied drama at USC under William C. de Mille. He began his acting carrer at 1973 and achieved his big-screen debut in Jim, the World's Greatest (1975), directed by then 18-year-old Coscarelli. During this time he was still 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. He participated in four more sequels of that movie. It also led to a steady acting career in theater and television, in which he also participated in other horror movies.

Phantasm 5 was his last horror movie. He died in Los Angeles because of natural causes.