Biography
William Glenn Shadix was an American actor. He was known for his role as Otho in Tim Burton's horror comedy film Beetlejuice and as the voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Complete Filmography

Acts of Death
2007
as Jack Strong
A group of college theater students sneak into the Baxter University theater at night to initiate the 'frosh meat'. Something goes terribly wrong. The...

Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2005
as Claudius
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and fema...

To Kill a Mockumentary
2004
as Karl
A group of mockumentary filmmakers has been hired to make a full-scale studio production. The potential for hilarity is high when this low-rent team h...

Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003
as Garland Madden
Comedy special spotlighting Tracey Ullman’s larger than life character Ruby Romaine from HBO's “Tracey Takes On”. After an illustrious career, vetera...

Sol Goode
2003
as Casting Director
Sol Goode, a charismatic L.A. twenty-something, has always relied on charm, good looks, and fast talk to glide through life. But his luck may have run...

Shut Yer Dirty Little Mouth
2002
as Peter
The true story of Pete and Ray, two down-and-out alcoholics living in the Haight district of San Francisco in the late '80s. Their outrageous and hila...

Planet of the Apes
2001
as Senator Nado
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes domi...

Fast Sofa
2001
as Apartment Manager
Rick, a dope fiend, believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger, a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick...

The World of Stainboy
2000
as Sgt. Glen Dale / Charity Home Matron / TV Announcer #2
Local superhero Stainboy hunts down a series of oddball villains harnessing bizarre powers.

More Dogs Than Bones
2000
as Geoff
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.

Red Dirt
2000
as Virgil Cunningham
At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of their family's matriarch, and his...

Bartok the Magnificent
1999
as Townspeople (voice)
Albino bat Bartok – former sidekick to the wicked Grigori Rasputin – ventures to prove his true worth on a new quest to defeat the legendary Russian w...
Confession of a Florist
1999
as Sheriff Winslow
She loves him. She loves him not.

Chairman of the Board
1998
as Larry
Surfer Edison isn't able to make ends meet with his inventions or his lifestyle. But then he meets billionaire Armand McMillian, who takes a shine to ...

Men
1997
as Neil, poster
A single young woman moves to Los Angeles, gets a job as a chef and has casual affairs.

Sparkler
1997
as Announcer
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel ...

Multiplicity
1996
as Building Inspector
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves ...

The Empty Mirror
1996
Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical fi...

Dunston Checks In
1996
as Lionel Spalding
Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel critic checks in. Trouble is, the critic is really a vil...

Love Affair
1994
as Anthony Rotundo
Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship ...

It Runs in the Family
1994
as Leopold Doppler
It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives. Ralphie is searching for the per...

Dark Side of Genius
1994
as Leon Bennini
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder ...

The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993
as Mayor (voice)
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus an...

Demolition Man
1993
as Associate Bob
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a res...

Sleepwalkers
1992
as Mr. Fallows
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only ...

Bingo
1991
as Duke
Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featurin...

Meet the Applegates
1990
as Greg Samson
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the...

Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon
1989
as Chet
Inheriting a family resort in Hawaii, the Wyatts find it in such a run-down condition that they decide to sell it after trying to fix it up. Amidst co...

Nightlife
1989
At a museum of Mexico City arrives a perfectly conservated mumie. It is a vampire who has died years ago and who returns to life in search of his lost...

Heathers
1988
as Father Ripper
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by...

Sunset
1988
as Roscoe Arbuckle
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Beetlejuice
1988
as Otho
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

Student Exchange
1987
as Mr. Barton
Carol and Neil are are successful in terms of grades, but not very popular at their highschool. When Carol comes to know that two foreign exchange stu...
They Saved Gidget's Brain
1984
as Bobo
Gidget’s parents sell her brain to science in order to buy a Winnebago. Years later, Gidget gets her revenge when her brain is transplanted into the c...
They Saved Gidget's Brain
1984
Writer
Gidget’s parents sell her brain to science in order to buy a Winnebago. Years later, Gidget gets her revenge when her brain is transplanted into the c...

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
as Twin Oaks Customer
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.