# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/angus-scrimm
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:45:05.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/angus-scrimm"
name: "Angus Scrimm"
slug: "angus-scrimm"
description: "Angus Scrimm was an American actor, author, and journalist, known for his portrayal of the Tall Man in the 1979 horror film Phantasm and its sequels."
tagline: "American actor (1926–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Angus_Scrimm_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-08-19"
deathDate: "2016-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7851522408484434
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump