Sid Haig

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Sidney Eddie Mosesian (July 14, 1939-2004), also known as Sid Haig, was an American actor, film director, and singer.

He is best known for his appearances in many of Jack Hill's blaxploitation films as well as in horror films, most notable being Captain Spaulding in the Rob Zombie films House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, and 3 from Hell.

Captain Spaulding of Haig and Haig himself have been dubbed horror film icons.

Haig was a leading role on the television series Jason of Star Command as the villain Dragos.

He appeared in many television shows, including The Untouchables, Batman, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Charlie's Angels, The Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team, and MacGyver.

Early life

Haig was born in Fresno, California, and was raised in an Armenian family. He was the son of Roxy (Mooradian) and Haig Mosesian, an electrician. His rapid growth as a youth interfered with his motor coordination, prompting him to enroll in dancing lessons. He appeared as a paid dancer in a children's Christmas display and then joined a vaudeville revival display at seven years old.

Haig also performed as a guitarist, and he performed a variety of musical styles on the drums, including swing, country, jazz, blues, and rock and roll. Haig started earning money from music and signed a recording deal early in high school. Haig, who was still a child, went on to record the single "Full House" with the T-Birds in 1958, which reached No. 1 in 1958. In the charts, there are 4 positions.

Alice Merrill, the drama department's director, encouraged Haig to pursue an acting career while he was in high school. Merrill had been a Broadway actress who had retained her contacts in the industry. Merrill double cast the play during his senior year, so one of her Hollywood acquaintances weighed the actors in order to choose the final cast.

Dennis Morgan, a 1940s musical comedy comedian, saw Haig perform and select him for a prominent role in the play. Haig returned to see the show and encouraged him to continue his education in the San Fernando Valley and consider acting as a career two weeks later. Haig's two years as a student at the Pasadena Playhouse, which taught such well-known actors as Robert Preston, Gene Hackman, and Dustin Hoffman. Stuart Margolin, a long-time friend and Pasadena Playhouse roommate, joined him later in Hollywood.

Personal life and death

Haig married Susan L. Oberg on November 2, 2007, after she was born on November 2, 2007.

Haig was hospitalized in early September 2019 after falling at his home in Thousand Oaks, California. He developed Aspergillus pneumonia after aspirating vomit in his sleep while recovering. He died on September 21, 2019, at the age of 80.

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Acting career

Haig's first acting appearance was in The Host, a 1960 short student film directed by Jack Hill at UCLA. Haig's more than four decades of acting in over fifty films and 350 television episodes began with this. In Hill's films, including Spider Baby, Coffy, and Foxy Brown, Haig became a staple. Haig appeared in THX 1138, George Lucas' debut film directorial debut, as well as the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.

Haig's debut on television was in a 1962 episode of The Untouchables. He appeared in several other television series, including Batman, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Get Smart, The Flying Nun, Mary Hartman, Emergency!, Charlie's Angels, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team, MacGyver, and Just the Ten of Us.

Haig was temporarily out of acting in 1992 and was feeling typecast: "I just didn't want to play stupid heavies anymore." They continued to give me the same stuff but then wore different clothing on me. I thought it was stupid, and I resented it, but I didn't have anything to do with it," he said. Haig did not work in acting for five years, but instead trained and became a licensed hypnotherapist. He was given the role of Marsellus Wallace (later to be played by Ving Rhames) in Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino's second feature film. Haig was worried that low-budget television had been detrimental to his career at the time, and he had reportedly passed on the initiative despite the fact that the shooting script and the short number of days had been postponed; he later regretted it. Haig appeared in Tarantino's 1997 film Jackie Brown, a part written specifically for Haig by Tarantino.

Haig appeared in Rob Zombie's debut film House of 1000 Corpses in 2003 as a psychotic clown named Captain Spaulding. Haig's acting career was revived, earning him a "Best Support Actor" award in the 13th Annual Fangoria Chainsaw Awards and induction into Fangoria's Horror Hall of Fame. In the 2005 film The Devil's Rejects, a sequel to House of 1000 Corpses, in which Spaulding is depicted as the patriarch of the murderous Firefly family, Haig reprised his role as Spaulding. Captain Spaulding has since been regarded as a modern icon of horror film, and Haig himself has been dubbed a "horror icon." Leslie Easterbrook, Sheri Moon, and Bill Moseley, the Firefly family, received the award for "Best Actor" in the 15th Annual Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, as the Firefly family's reprisal of The Devil's Rejects. Haig was also named as "Best Butcher" in the Fuse/Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, but lost to Tobin Bell's Jigsaw from Saw II.

Haig reunited with Rob Zombie for the film's 2007 Halloween revival, with Haig playing Chester Chesterfield's cemetery caretaker. He reprised his role as Captain Spaulding in Zombie's 2009 animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, as well as in the films Hatchet III and Devil in My Ride.

For the final time in Rob Zombie film 3 from Hell, a sequel to House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, Haig appeared in 2019. He is expected to appear in the 2020 slasher film Hanukkah as well as in the 2022 film Abruptio.

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