Bessemer native, Glenn Shadix, a Hollywood character actor best known for His Role as Otho the interior Decorator in Tim Burton's "Beetle Juice," at last Tuesday morning Following a fall at Birmingham at his condo, a family member said.
Mr. Shadix, Ken appeared in more than just 70 films and TV shows, was 58
"He was having" Problems mobility, and they was in a wheelchair, "Susan Gagne, Shadix's sister, Said Tuesday. "It looks like they Fell and hit at his head in the kitchen, and that's the cause of death."
Gagne Said She found her brother dead in at his kitchen "when she went Thurs is a check on him Tuesday morning that they did Not monetize return of her phone calls.
Besides "Beetle Juice," Mr. Shadix's mutch films Roles included Supporting parts in "Heathers," "Demolition Man," "Meet the Apple Gates" and "Dunston Checks In," as well as a small Role in the steamy Jack Nicholson-Jessica Lange mystery of "The Postman Always Rings Twice," his first film.
It is TV, Mr. Shadix appeared in guest Roles is "Cheers," "The Golden Girls," "Roseanne," "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and "Seinfeld," in their wakes Played Jerry Seinfeld's landlord.
Born in Bessemer, Mr. Shadix Said is at his website That they got interested in acting on, they saw a double feature of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Suddenly, Last Summer" at a drive-in theater as a kid.
"Too Young to ABSORB the Greater subtleties," they wrote, "it nevertheless imprinted a Fascination with film and acting that much never left me."
After Studying theater at Birmingham-Southern College in the mid-1970s, Mr. Shadix moved Thurs New York and later Los Angeles, M Burton Discovered him while they was playing the writer Gertrude Stein in a stage Production.
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