​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angus Scrimm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.