Sid Haig

Name: Sid Haig
Date of Birth: July 14, 1939
Place of Birth: Fresno, California, USA

Biography: Tall, bald and nearly always bearded, Sid Haig has provided hulking menace to many a low-budget exploitation film and high-priced action film. Sid Haig was born Sidney Eddie Mosesian in Fresno, Califo...( read more

)rnia, on July 14, 1939, a screaming ball of hair. His career was somewhat of an accident. Sid was growing so fast that he had absolutely no coordination. It was decided that he would take dancing lessons, and that's when it all began. At the age of seven, he was dancing for pay in a children's Christmas Show, then a revival of a vaudeville show... and on it went. Sid also showed a musical inclination, particularly for the drums. So, when his parents got tired of him denting all the pots and pans in the house, they bought him a drum set. The music was in him and he took to it immediately, a born natural. First it was swing, then country, then jazz, blues and Rock & Roll. Sid always found it easy to make money with his music, and did very well. One year out of high school and signing a recording contract isn't too bad. Sid went on to record the single "Full House" with the T-Birds in 1958. However, back while he was in high school, he got bitten by the "acting bug"... Sid enrolled in the world famous Pasadena Playhouse, the school that trained such actors as Robert Preston, Robert Young, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. Sid's first acting job was in Jack Hill's student film at UCLA. It was called The Host (1960), which was released in 2004 on DVD as a companion to Switchblade Sisters (1975), another Hill film. That role launched a 40-year acting career during which Haig appeared in over 50 films and 350 television shows. Among his most significant television credits are appearances on such landmark programs as "The A-Team" (1983), "T.J. Hooker" (1982), "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979), "Quincy M.E." (1976), "Hart to Hart" (1979), "Fantasy Island" (1978), "Charlie's Angels" (1976), "Police Woman" (1974), "The Rockford Files" (1974), "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974), "Mannix" (1967), "Mission: Impossible" (1966), "Gunsmoke" (1955), "Get Smart" (1965), "Here's Lucy" (1968), "The Flying Nun" (1967), "Daniel Boone" (1964), "Star Trek" (1966), _"Batman" (1966)_, and "The Untouchables" (1959). In 1992, Sid, fed up with being typecast, retired from acting and quoted, "I'll never play another stupid 'heavy' again, and I don't care if that means that I never work, ever." Then in 2000, Sid came out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of Rob Zombie for a part in Zombie's debut film House of 1000 Corpses (2003). He starred as the fun-loving, but murderous, Captain Spaulding. This role breathed new life into Sid's acting career and earned him an award for Best Supporting Actor in the 13th Annual Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, as well as an induction into the Horror Hall of Fame. Sid's character of Captain Spaulding has since become the icon for the new horror genre. Sid has recently enjoyed success as Captain Spaulding once again in Rob Zombie's follow-up to House of 1000 Corpses (2003), entitled, The Devil's Rejects (2005). For this film, Sid received the award for best Actor in the 15th Annual Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, as well as sharing the award for "Most Vile Villain" at the First Annual Spike TV Scream Awards with Leslie Easterbrook, Sheri Moon Zombie, and Bill Moseley as The Firefly Family. As of this writing at the end of 2007, Sid has several projects in various stages of production, and continues to enjoy his renewed success as an actor.

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