Betelgeuse (Beetlejuice)
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Beetlejuice (1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Alec Baldwin as Adam Maitland. Part of the couple who dies at the start of Beetlejuice and returns home to learn they're ghosts, Adam Maitland is an artistic and genial small-town kind of guy, and Alec Baldwin is barely recognizable in this early casting.
- Geena Davis as Barbara Maitland. When cast in Beetlejuice, Geena Davis was coming off a different sort of horror movie, as Jeff Goldblum's love interest in The Fly.
- Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse. The title character of Beetlejuice has a different spelling from the name of the movie, and that's only one of his many eccentricities.
- Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz. Lydia is a brooding but sweet teenage goth girl who can see the Maitlands because of her self-identifying trait of being "strange and unusual."
- Michael Keaton. While Keaton had already stepped onto the Hollywood scene by the time Beetlejuice premiered, his performance as the titular undead menace solidified his spot in the limelight.
- Alec Baldwin. For the 1988 Tim Burton classic, Baldwin took on the role of Adam — a man who, upon his death, haunts the home he once shared with his wife, Barbara, and attempts to get its new residents to leave.
- Geena Davis. As Barbara in the 1988 horror comedy, Davis played Barbara, one-half of the spectral Maitland couple haunting the Connecticut home in which they are trapped.
- Winona Ryder. Though Ryder's first film role came two years prior in 1986's Lucas, Beetlejuice was just her third onscreen credit and would prove to be a launchpad for her career that followed.
- Lou Vanhecke
- Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse. Starring in the film's title role, Michael Keaton’s portrayal of Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice) launched the actor in the direction of leading characters and critical success.
- Alec Baldwin as Adam Maitland. Making his film debut just a year prior to Beetlejuice’s release, Alec Baldwin furthered his name recognition after his portrayal of Adam Maitland, the deceased husband who employs Betelgeuse to scare off the new owners of his home.
- Geena Davis as Barbara Maitland. Before landing the role as deceased wife Barbara Maitland, Geena Davis had portrayed roles in films such as the 1982 comedy Tootsie and the 1985 horror-comedy Transylvania 6-5000.
- Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz. Known as a '90s film icon, Winona Ryder had only one film credit to her name before taking on the role as goth-teen Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice.
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