Marilyn Manson is known for his outrageous behavior both on and off the stage, but another gig showcased what he's best known for: his freaky voice. Last Halloween, the goth rocker landed a voice role on ABC's "Once Upon a Time," voicing the sinister Shadow, the shadow-ripping crony of evil Peter Pan (Robbie Kay). Executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz told Rolling Stone, "We've always been enormous fans of Marilyn Manson. We wanted to cast someone with the vocal ability to make our skin crawl."
Peter Pan meets Shadow:
It makes sense to sign one of rock's scariest voices for the role, and it's not the first time a rocker with a telltale voice has been tapped for TV.
Back in the 1970s, Alice Cooper welcomed us to his nightmare in the creepy TV special "Alice Cooper: The Nightmare." The shock rocker played Steven, a character who was trapped in a nightmare and trying to get out. Horror icon Vincent Price was even tapped to play the Spirit of the Nightmare in the spooky special. Cooper even that "Nightmare" could be Broadway bound.
Ozzy Osbourne's creepiness cred went down a few notches after we were privy to his at-home hijinks on the MTV reality show "The Osbournes." (Let's face it; it's hard to be scared of a guy who can't even figure out how to use his TV remote.) But since then, the rock star has scared up more TV work, like a voice role on the Disney show "Fish Hooks," where the Prince of Darkness played the Earth Troll in a 2011 episode. (It was nothing like his satanic stage show, but it was definitely a blizzard of odd.) Last year, Ozzy and Black Sabbath appeared on the season finale of "CSI," where the metal pioneers debuted their single "End of the Beginning," and Ozzy seemed confused about the year 1986.
Check out Ozzy on "CSI":
Danish heavy-metal singer Kim Bendix Petersen does more than sing death metal. He's credited by his stage name, King Diamond, on several episodes of the Adult Swim series "Metalocalypse." Hard to imagine King as Fast Food Restaurant Manager or Employee 421, but it's all in there. (His role as Blues Devil makes a little more sense.)
Rob Zombie has one of the most menacing voices in rock 'n' roll, so it's no wonder he was picked to voice the ominous creature Ichthultu in the 2003 "Justice League" episode "The Terror Beyond." That same year, the White Zombie frontman-turned-filmmaker also voiced an evil scientist and his lizard alter ego in MTV's "Spider-Man" animated series.
It's probably not an accident that Zombie's acting credits are mostly voice roles. In an interview with Screencrush, he said, "I find musicians are terrible actors … just because their persona has totally taken their lives to a point where they can't drop it, and they always want to look good and be cool, whereas actors don't care. Actors are fine if they look like idiots -- they don't have that filter. Musicians are so worried about being cool that they look so self-conscious on camera."
Zombie's Ichthultu character:
KISS founding member Gene Simmons has never been one to shy away from the small screen. In addition to starring in the A&E reality show "Gene Simmons Family Jewels," the tongue-wagging rocker has voiced roles on "SpongeBob SquarePants," "King of the Hill," and "The Family Guy," and has appeared on several episodes of "Third Watch" and "Ugly Betty." But an early TV appearance may be his most memorable.
Back in the early days of his glam rock band, Simmons spread his wings on "The Mike Douglas Show." Mike Douglas and guest Totie Fields were completely baffled by the rocker's outrageous makeup and costume for his 1974 appearance on the afternoon talk show, with Fields even saying, "Wouldn't it be funny if under this he was just a nice Jewish boy?"
Check out Gene Simmons on "The Mike Douglas Show":
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