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Actor Glenn Shadix is dead at age 58
By April MacIntyre Sep 8, 2010, 21:05 GMT
Tim Burton's film "Beetlejuice" featured Alabama native Glenn Shadix as "Otho", an imperious interior designer who was enamored of all things paranormal.
Mr. Shadix died Tuesday morning in his Birmingham home. He was 58.
Susan Gagne, Mr. Shadix's sister told the Birmingham News thather brother had been using a wheelchair to get around, and he fell in his kitchen and hit his head.
Mr. Shadix also was a voice-over actor in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and appeared in numerous smallscreen series. He was reportedly en route back to Hollywood to audition for a Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon film.
Here he talks poignantly about coming out as a gay man, and surviving aversion therapy as a teen:
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