Glenn Shadix(1952-2010)
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
William G. Scott was born in 1952 in Bessemer, Alabama. He attended Birmingham-Southern College for two years. He lived in New York City prior to moving to Hollywood in the late 1970s.
Changing his name to Glenn Shadix, he made his film debut in the poorly received Le facteur sonne toujours deux fois (1981), later winning a breakthrough role in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) as Otho, the pretentious and treacherous interior designer who dangerously dabbles in the paranormal. Tim Burton went on to cast Shadix as the voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town in L'Étrange Noël de monsieur Jack (1993), and Senator Nado in La planète des singes (2001).
Notable television credits include NBC's Seinfeld (1989), and HBO's La caravane de l'étrange (2003). On September 7, 2010, Shadix accidentally fell at his condominium in Birmingham, Alabama, and died of blunt trauma to his head. He had already had mobility problems and was wheelchair-bound. Shadix was survived by his mother, sister and brother-in-law.
Changing his name to Glenn Shadix, he made his film debut in the poorly received Le facteur sonne toujours deux fois (1981), later winning a breakthrough role in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) as Otho, the pretentious and treacherous interior designer who dangerously dabbles in the paranormal. Tim Burton went on to cast Shadix as the voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town in L'Étrange Noël de monsieur Jack (1993), and Senator Nado in La planète des singes (2001).
Notable television credits include NBC's Seinfeld (1989), and HBO's La caravane de l'étrange (2003). On September 7, 2010, Shadix accidentally fell at his condominium in Birmingham, Alabama, and died of blunt trauma to his head. He had already had mobility problems and was wheelchair-bound. Shadix was survived by his mother, sister and brother-in-law.
