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Angus Scrimm is best known for playing the Tall Man - the unforgettable, imposing antagonist of Don Coscarelli's cult fave Phantasm franchise. Scrimm played the Tall Man in each of the series ...

Young Mike (Michael Baldwin) is confronted by the nefarious Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) in Phantasm. Tommy’s death kicks off the larger plot of Phantasm which follows Mike Pearson, a young boy who ...

"Star Wars" actor Angus MacInnes, who was best known for Jon "Dutch" Vander in two of the franchise's films, has died. He was 77. "Our hearts are broken. He was at home surrounded by love & we had ...

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

Angus Scrimm is of course best known for playing the Tall Man in the cult fave Phantasm franchise, but he also made a fleeting appearance in the first entry into the straight-to-video vampire ...

But Phantasm‘s open-door policy with respect ... a gaunt and mysterious undertaker called the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) with superhuman strength and the ability to materialize anywhere.

"Phantasm" was filmed on a minuscule $300,000 ... following Monday so as to only pay for one day's rental. 2. Actor Angus Scrimm is 6 foot 4, and he wore undersized costumes and modified boots ...

Coscarelli may never get the budgets he deserves--and he often says that every time a project falls apart, he goes back to Phantasm, though the recent death of Angus Scrimm makes further ...

Mike (Michael Baldwin) faces off against a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons when he confronts a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) in horror icon Don Coscarelli’s ...

It only makes perfect sense, given that by this point Angus Scrimm was in his nineties, Bannister and Thornbury were in their seventies, and Baldwin was in his mid-fifties, that 2016’s Phantasm ...