Glenn Quinn
Ireland born Glenn was Mark on Roseanne, and played Doyle on Angel as well as other roles.
Glenn was also the co owner/silent partner of a club called Goldfinger’s which is just a couple of doors down from the PLA BOY liquor store in a particularly grubby area of Hollywood, mentioned in the Ed Wood story. Here is the back view of the bar, which I plan to check out soon.
The good folks at www.celebritycollectables.com
sent me the autopsy report for this story, thus making it available for
us. A fascinating document, and perfect for the death hag on your
Christmas list.
Glenn had a booze and drug problem for quite some time. He lost his last job on
Angel because of it. It appears that he was on a downward
spiral, and according to some sources, he lost the house be bought from his Roseanne
money. He was bought out in his night club venture, because he was
begging for money from customers, getting in to fights and just being an all
around embarrassment. The last straw for Glenn was being kicked out of
rehab (Wavelengths in Malibu), for using drugs. This was a
few days before he died.
Glenn was living the "transient" lifestyle, staying with friends, and
on December 2, 2002, he was staying with his buddy Dwayne in North
Hollywood. The apartment was on
the ground floor, and Glenn
was sleeping on the couch. Glenn and Dwayne spoke around 10pm, when Dwayne
went to bed. At some point, Glenn had shot up heroin. Dwayne woke
the next morning, saw Glenn sleeping there (he thought) and went out to run some
errands. Upon his return around 11am or noon, he took a closer look at
Glenn.
I think that the reporter from The Globe put it best when he wrote, “The Irish born actor was proud of his heritage, sporting the tattoo Erin Go Braugh (Ireland Forever) on his right shoulder and one of an Irish harp on this left. But the hunk was a mess – with a chalky drool oozing from his mouth and mismatched socks on his feet – when his cold corpse was found on a couch of a friend’s North Hollywood apartment.”
Dwayne lived in this apartment building in North Hollywood, just a stone’s throw from the
glamorous Beverly Garland Hotel. In fact, at the end of the street where Glenn died, there was some lovely
flowerage courtesy of The
Bev. On a positive note, the coroner deemed the apartment “clean and furnished.” That
had to make Dwayne’s mum proud, offsetting the fact that a junkie overdosed on
her son's couch.
Cause of death, Morphine Intoxication. An overdose of heroin. Accidental. Just an FYI, heroin shows up as
morphine in autopsies. He was only 32. Autopsy reports are revealing.
Apparently he left behind some financial troubles as well. Michael Fishman, who played
D.J. on Roseanne, put out a plea for people to send donations to help cover the funeral costs.
Sad considering that Glenn probably made more in a year than most
"average" people make in a decade, and he pissed it all away on
drugs. He had serious demons.
He was taken to the Luyben Family Mortuary and embalmed. A funeral was held, and Sara Gilbert and Johnny Galecki (Darlene and David on Roseanne) attended. Glenn is buried in Forest Lawn, Cypress - in Orange County.
My pal Kim from GravesRUs sends us these pictures of Glenn's final resting spot. His original marker was quite modest, but since its been replaced with a more suitable one. Thanks Kim!
Trivia: Glenn gave Gwyneth Paltrow her first on screen kiss in a movie called Shout.
Drugs are bad, mmkay?