The Sid Haig Handbook - Everything you need to know about Sid Haig

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Sid Haig (born July 14, 1939) is an American actor. His roles have included acting in Jack Hill's blaxploitation films of the 1970s as well as his role as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's horror films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. He has appeared in many television programs including Batman, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Fantasy Island, Sledge Hammer!, The A-Team, The Fall Guy and MacGyver.

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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Sid Haig's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Sid Haig, Blood Bath, Brotherhood of Blood, Busting, C.C. and Company, Coffy, Dark Moon Rising, Emperor of the North Pole, Evening in Byzantium, Foxy Brown (film), Galaxy of Terror, Get Smart, House of 1000 Corpses, House of the Dead 2 (film), It's a Bikini World, Jack Hill, Jason of Star Command, Night of the Living Dead 3D, Peter Scheerer, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Savage Sisters, Sheri Moon Zombie, Sledge Hammer!, Spider Baby, THX, The Aftermath (1982 film), The Big Doll House, The Devil's Rejects, The Forbidden Dance, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, The Hell with Heroes, The Lords of Salem (film), The No Mercy Man…and more pages!

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• Date de parution: 12 avril 2013
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• EAN13: 9781486481804
• Langue: English
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Contents

Articles Sid Haig Blood Bath Brotherhood of Blood Busting C.C. and Company Coffy Dark Moon Rising Emperor of the North Pole Evening in Byzantium Foxy Brown (film) Galaxy of Terror Get Smart House of 1000 Corpses House of the Dead 2 (film) It's a Bikini World Jack Hill Jason of Star Command Night of the Living Dead 3D Peter Scheerer Quentin Tarantino Rob Zombie Savage Sisters Sheri Moon Zombie Sledge Hammer! Spider Baby THX 1138 The Aftermath (1982 film) The Big Doll House The Devil's Rejects The Forbidden Dance The Haunted World of El Superbeasto The Hell with Heroes The Lords of Salem (film) The No Mercy Man

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The Woman Hunt

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Sid Haig

Sid Haig

Born

Occupation

Years active

Spouse(s)

Sid Haig

Sid Haig, 2007

Sidney Eddy Mosesian July 14, 1939 Fresno, California, U.S.

Actor

1960–present

Susan L. Oberg (m. 2007)

Website

http://www.sidhaig.com

[1] Sid Haigis an American actor. His roles have included acting in Jack Hill's blaxploitation(born July 14, 1939) films of the 1970s as well as his role as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's horror filmsHouse of 1000 Corpsesand The Devil's Rejects. He has appeared in many television programs includingBatman,Star Trek,Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke,The Rockford Files,Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,Fantasy Island,Sledge Hammer!,The A-Team, [2] The Fall GuyandMacGyver.

Early life [3] [4] Haig was bornSidney Eddy Mosesianin Fresno, California and was raised in an Armenian community. His [5] father, Haig Mosesian, was an electrician. Haig's career began somewhat by accident. As a young man, his rapid [6] growth interfered with his motor coordination, prompting him to take dancing lessons. At the age of seven years, [7] he was a paid dancer in a children’s Christmas show, and later joined a vaudeville revival show.

Haig also displayed musical talent particularly for the drums, prompting his parents to buy him a drum set, on which he mastered a wide range of music styles, including swing, country, jazz, blues and rock and roll. He found it easy to earn money with his music, and signed a recording contract one year out of high school. Haig went on to record the [6][8][9] single "Full House" with the T-Birds in 1958 which shot to #4 on the charts.

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The Pasadena Playhouse When Haig was in high school, the head of the drama department was Alice Merrill, who encouraged him to pursue [6] an acting career. Merrill was a famous Broadway actress who maintained her contacts in the business. During his senior year, a play was produced in which Merrill double cast the show, to have one of her Hollywood friends assess the actors in order to select the final cast. The Hollywood contact who saw Haig perform was Dennis Morgan, a big musical comedy star from the 1940s, who chose Haig for a prominent role in the play. Two weeks later, he returned to see the show and advised Haig to continue his education in the San Fernando Valley and consider acting as a [7] career. Two years later, Haig enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse, the school that trained such noted actors as Robert Preston, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. He later moved to Hollywood with longtime friend and [7] Pasadena Playhouse roommate Stuart Margolin.

Acting career Haig's first acting job was in Jack Hill's student film at UCLA titledThe Host, which launched Haig's more-than-four [6] decade acting career in over fifty films and 350 television episodes. He became a staple in Hill's films, such as Spider Baby,CoffyandFoxy Brown. Haig was also a regular player for producer-director Roger Corman. He appeared in George Lucas'THX 1138and the 1971 James Bond filmDiamonds Are Forever. His television credits include appearances in such programs asBatman,Gunsmoke,Get Smart,Mission: Impossible(at least eight appearances in eight different roles as a villain, most of any guest star),Charlie's Angels,Jason of Star Command, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,The Dukes of Hazzard,Automan,MacGyverandThe A-Team(in which he played a jailed motorcycle gang leader) andEmergency!(again as a motorcycle gang leader). Haig retired in 1992 on account of getting typecast: "I just didn’t want to play stupid heavies anymore. They just kept giving me the same parts but just putting different clothes on me. It was stupid, and I resented it, and I wouldn’t have [6] anything to do with it". Haig did not work in acting for five years, in place training and becoming a certified [6] Hypnotherapist. During this time, he was offered the role of Marsellus Wallace (later to be played by Ving [10] Rhames) inPulp FictionAt the time, Haig was concerned that low budget, Quentin Tarantino's second film. television had been ruining his career and, at seeing the shooting script and the short number of days dedicated for [11] each locale, he passed on the project. He has said that he always regretted this decision. Then, in 1997, Tarantino [6] wrote the part of the judge inJackie Brownspecifically for Haig. In 2000, Haig starred in Rob Zombie's debut filmHouse of 1000 Corpses, as Captain Spaulding. The role revived Haig's acting career, earning him a "Best Supporting Actor" award in the thirteenth Annual Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, and induction into the Horror Hall of Fame. His image as Captain Spaulding has become iconic in today's horror genre. Haig reprised his role as Spaulding in Zombie’s sequel toHouse of 1000 Corpses, entitledThe Devil's Rejects. For this film, he 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 and Bill Moseley as The Firefly [12] Family. He was also nominated as "Best Butcher" in the Fuse/Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, but lost to Tobin Bell's Jigsaw from [13] Saw II.

Sid Haig with his wife, Susan L. Oberg, at the 2007 Scream Awards

Recently, Haig reunited with Rob Zombie once again, albeit briefly, in the director'sHalloweenremake, in the role of cemetery caretaker [14] Chester Chesterfield. Sid Haig also reprised the role of Captain

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1966

1960

The Host

Joseph Sargent

First Penthouse Lobby Guard

C.C. and Company

It's a Bikini World

Point Blank

Blood Bath

Seymour Robbie

1962

1967

1965

Beach Ball

Tattoo Artist

Hays

Malavael

Bald Pirate

[15] Spaulding in Rob Zombie's animated filmThe Haunted World of El Superbeastomost recently starred in. Haig [16] the independent horror filmBlood is Blood, which was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Haig starred in the documentary filmVampira: The Movie, which based on Maila Nurmi's cult character [17] Vampira.

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Diego

Daddy

The Fugitive

Drummer for Righteous Brother

Harry

NCH

Crespin

Antonio

Jack Hill

Hawk Sidney

Crow

Stephanie Rothman

John Boorman

1971

Che!

The Hell with Heroes

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

Richard Fleischer

George Lucas

Jack Hill

THX 1138

1970

1969

The Big Doll House

East Eddie

McNamara's Band

Gregorious

Pill Box

Maurie

Zoltan

Evening in Byzantium

Asied

Short film

Abdul the Arab

Ralph

Role

Jack Hill, Stephanie Rothman

Slumber Inc. Attendant

Jack Hill

Guy Hamilton

Roger Duchowny

TV film

TV film

The Return of the World's Greatest Detective

Vince Cooley

The Woman Hunt

Grease Tail

The Arab

Omar

Silas

Django

Ruben

Peter Hyams

Eddie Romero

Hal Needham

Jerry London

James Goldstone

Joseph Pevney

Diamonds Are Forever

1968

The No Mercy Man

Year

The Firebrand

Film

Pit Stop

Spider Baby

Robert Vincent O'Neill

Notes

The Don Is Dead

Dean Hargrove

Jack Hill

Rizzo's Bouncer

Richard Fleischer

Sid Haig

Foxy Brown

1978

Busting

1977

1974

Robert Aldrich

Jack Hill

Eddie Romero

Filmography

Daniel Vance

Jack Hill

Jack Hill

The Big Bird Cage

1972

1973

Beyond Atlantis

Jack Hill

Maury Dexter

Director

Lennie Weinrib

Swashbuckler

1976

Death Car on the Freeway

1975

1979

Savage Sisters

Wonder Woman

Coffy

Emperor of the North Pole

Black Mama, White Mama

Voice-only

Professor Curien

Andrew Kasch

Gerald Tovar, Jr.

Seymour

Dana Mennie

Goddess of Love

Radio Evangelist

Crazy Louis

Creature

2010

Dr. Gardner

Captain Spaulding

Jay

2011

Colonel Gorda

Judge

Greydon Clark

Kurt Voss

House of 1000 Corpses

Loose Shoes

1981

Underground Aces

Sid Haig

1980

The Aftermath

1982

Galaxy of Terror

TV film

Douglas Schulze

James P. Lay

Brett Donowho

Jesse Dayton

Not yet released

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Fred M. Andrews

Rob Zombie

Edward G. Norris

Matthan Harris

2009

A Dead Calling

Brotherhood of Blood

Thirsty

Night of the Living Dead 3D

2006

Vince

Pre-production

Quuhod

Little Big Top

Lone Stranger

Faoud

Cutter

40 Days of Musa Dagh

1990

The Forbidden Dance

2005

The Devil's Rejects

TV film

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

Dead Man's Hand

2007

House of the Dead 2

Halloween

Zombex

The Sacred

Mimesis

2012

Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer

Rob Zombie

Pashek

Radio Evangelist

Chester Chesterfield

Rob Zombie

Quentin Tarantino

Boris and Natasha

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Jackie Brown

1989

1988

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II

Dark Moon Rising

Commando Squad

1987

The Lords of Salem

Warlords

Go Straight to Hell

The Stranger

The Commander

Dean Magnus

Michael Feifer

Jeff Broadstreet

Charles Band

Michael Hurst

1997

1992

2004

2003

Genuine Risk

The Infliction

The Black Box

Fred Olen Ray

David Lowell Rich

Robert Butler

Ira Miller

The Warlord

Iggy

Donar

Charles B. Griffith

Steve Barkett

Sarky Mouradian

Ward Roberts

Roy 'The Word' Donahue

Sam

Captain Spaulding

George

Chopper

Doctor Phillips

Voice-only

Short film, Voice-only

Quentin Tarantino

Rob Zombie

Rob Zombie

Captain Spaulding/Cutter

Jim Drake

Curly

Turkish general

Bruce D. Clark

Hephaestus

Joa

The Haunted World of El Superbeasto

Razor

Jonathan Lewis, David Sherbrook

Charles Martin Smith

Sid Haig

References

[1] Carle, Chris (2005-07-17). "Comic-Con 2005: IGN Interviews Sid Haig" (http:/ /movies.ign.com/articles/634/634367p1.html). IGN. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [2] "Sid Haig Interview" (http://www.comicmonsters.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=780). ComicMonsters.com. 2005-12-05. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [3] According to the State of California.California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com [4] Murray, Jodi (2004-05-04). "Fresno: Local devil was inspired by zoo's Angel Fresno's Sid Haig" (http:/ /web.archive.org/web/ 20080213010436/http://www.armeniandiaspora.com/archive/4279.html). Armenian Diaspora. Archived from the original (http:/ /www. armeniandiaspora.com/archive/4279.html) on 2008-02-13. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [5]"Former Fresnan Plays The Heavy Bee". The Fresno Bee. 1969-08-01. [6] Anderson, Philip. "KAOS2000 Magazine interview with Sid Haig" (http:/ /www.kaos2000.net/interviews/sidhaig). KAOS2000 Magazine. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [7] Marcotte, John (2004-07-22). "Interview: Sid Haig" (http:/ /www.badmouth.net/interview-sid-haig/). BadMouth. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [8] "Interview with Sid Haig" (http:/ /www.milenko500.com/haiginterview.htm). Milenko500. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [9] "At the HorrorHound Film Fest: the cult favorite, Sid Haig" (http:/ /www.heraldbulletin.com/letters/local_story_185222841.html). The Herald Bulletin. 2007-08-04. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [10] A Conversation with Sid Haig (http:/ /www.fangoria.com/features/4353-a-conversation-with-sid-haig.html) [11] "Sid Haig Interview" (http://www.a3upodcast.com/node/187). . Retrieved 2008-07-20. [12] "Spike TV Announces SCREAM AWARDS 2006 Winners!!!" (http:/ /www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/ www/story/10-08-2006/0004447325). PR Newswire. 2006-10-08. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [13] "1ST fuse FANGO CHAINSAW AWARDS nominees!" (http:/ /web.archive.org/web/20080222050647/http://www.fangoria.com/ news_article.php?id=2568). Fangoria. Archived from the original (http:/ /www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=2568) on 2008-02-22. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [14] Uncle Creepy (2007-07-26). "(Haig, Sid) Halloween: Then and Now" (http:/ /www.dreadcentral.com/node/24805). DreadCentral. . Retrieved 2008-03-10. [15] Uncle Creepy (2008-03-05). "Sid Joins El Superbeasto!" (http:/ /www.dreadcentral.com/node/26364). DreadCentral. . Retrieved 2008-03-05. [16] Miska, Brad (2010-04-30). "New Orleans Creature Feature Introduces 'Lockjaw'" (http:/ /www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20028). DreadCentral. . Retrieved 2010-04-30. [17] "Today (12/11/10) is Vampira's Birthday; Watch an Exclusive Music Video Premiere" (http:/ /www.dreadcentral.com/news/41405/ today-121110-vampiras-birthday-watch-exclusive-music-video-premiere). . Retrieved 2010-12-11.

External links

Official website (http://www.sidhaig.com/) Sid Haig (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm354085/) at the Internet Movie Database Sid Haig (http://www.allrovi.com/name/p29604) at AllRovi Sid Haig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoryalpha:sid_haig) at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki) Interview with Sid Haig 2011 (video) at 8. Weekend Of Horrors (http://www.mypott.de/video/ Interview-mit-Sid-Haig-vom-letzten-Weekend-of-Horrors/a82602077f7b0b986efa13b907400d22) Interview with Sid Haig at HorrorYearbook.com (http://www.horroryearbook.com/2007/05/30/ interview-w-sid-haig-top-secret-clown-business-revealed/) Interview with Sid Haig at phillyBurbs.com (http://www.phillyburbs.com/haig/) Sid Haig (http://www.fearnet.com/movies/b15572_brotherhood_of_blood.html) inBrotherhood of Blood (http://www.fearnet.com/movies/b15572_brotherhood_of_blood.html) at FEARnet

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Blood Bath

Blood Bath

This article is about the 1966 horror film produced by Roger Corman. For the 1971 Italian horror directed by Mario Bava, seeTwitch of the Death Nerve. For the death metal band, see Bloodbath.

Blood Bath American theatrical poster Directed byJack Hill Stephanie Rothman

Produced by

Written by

Starring

Music by

Cinematography

Distributed by

Release date(s)

Running time

Language

Jack Hill Roger Corman (Executive Producer)

Jack Hill Stephanie Rothman

William Campbell

Ronald Stein

Alfred Taylor

American International Pictures

1966

69 min.

English

Blood Bathis a 1966 horror film directed by Jack Hill and Stephanie Rothman. William Campbell stars as an artist with vampiric tendencies who kills beautiful women and dumps their bodies into a vat of boiling wax in his studio. Also appearing in the cast in supporting roles are Linda Saunders, Merissa Mathes, Sid Haig, Jonathan Haze, and Patrick Magee. The film had a convoluted production history, initiating as a 1963 Yugoslavia-made spy thriller co-financed by Roger Corman, who deemed the final product unreleasable. Numerous horror sequences were later shot and edited into the film, first by Hill in 1964, then by Rothman in 1966. Corman approved of Rothman's version and the film was given a brief theatrical release by American International Pictures, with screenplay and directorial credit jointly shared by Hill and Rothman.

Plot In Venice, California, student Daisy (Merissa Mathes) leaves a club alone after having an argument with her beatnik boyfriend Max (Carl Schanzer). Walking through the deserted streets, she stops to admire some gruesome paintings in a gallery window painted by artist Antonio Sordi (Campbell), who coincidentally also comes by to look in on his "lost children." After a friendly conversation, Sordi convinces the young woman to pose nude for him that night. At his bell-tower studio, Sordi is possessed by the spirit of a long-dead ancestor and suddenly transforms into a vampiric monster who hacks the screaming Daisy to death with a cleaver. Afterwards, he lowers her mutilated corpse into a vat of boiling wax. Sordi, in his vampire form, stalks Venice in search of victims; he is able to do so freely at all hours. In the middle of the day, he chases a young woman into the surf at a beach and drowns her. At night, he kills a prostitute in a car while pedestrians stroll by, all of them assuming the pair are lovers sharing an intimate moment. Another victim is approached at a party, chased into a swimming pool, and drowned there after the other guests have moved into the house. The murdered women are carried back to Sordi's studio and painted by the artist, their bodies then covered in wax.

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Max wants to make up with Daisy but cannot find her anywhere. Learning that she has posed for Sordi and become the subject of the latest in the artist's series of "Dead Red Nudes," he visits her sister Donna (Sandra Knight) to ask her forgiveness. Donna tells Max she hasn't seen Daisy for days, and is concerned about the recent rash of disappearances. She reads Max the legend of Sordi's 15th-century ancestor Erno, a painter condemned to be burned at the stake for capturing his subjects' souls on canvas. Unable to convince Max that Antonio Sordi might also be a vampire, she confronts the artist at his studio and asks him if he has seen Daisy. He angrily brushes her off. That night, he later follows her through the streets and murders her as she tries to escape from him on a carousel. The "human" Sordi is in love with Dorian (Linda Saunders), an avant-garde ballerina and Daisy's former roommate. At first he tries to protect her from his vampiric tendencies, warning her his studio is a cheerless place and at one point breaking a date with her to spend time gaining control of his feelings for her. When she turns up at the studio unannounced, he believes she is the reincarnation of Erno Sordi’s long-dead mistress Melizza (also played by Linda Saunders), a witch who had denounced him to the ecclesiastical courts in order to protect herself from prosecution, and traps her in a net. He is about to slash her throat with a razor when Max and his beatnik friends finally realize Sordi is a murderer and successfully free her from the tower. Melizza, seen in a painting that Sordi keeps concealed behind a curtain, brings three of Sordi's victims back to life and they dispatch him by forcing him into the boiling wax.

Production Blood Bathhad possibly the most convoluted production history of any horror movie ever made. In 1963, while on vacation in Europe, Corman made a deal to distribute an unproduced Yugoslavian espionage thriller to be titledOperacija Ticijan/Operation: Titian. Corman bought the rights to the film for $20,000 and insisted on control over the production to ensure it could be adequately“Americanized”. To this end, Corman provided two cast members, William Campbell and Patrick Magee, who had appeared together in Corman’sThe Young Racersand Francis Ford Coppola’s Corman-producedDementia 13. In addition, Coppola was installed as the production’s script supervisor. The completed film was deemed unreleasable by Corman, although a redubbed, slightly re-edited version was eventually released directly to television under the titlePortrait in Terror. In 1964, Corman asked director Jack Hill to salvage the film. Hill filmed additional sequences in Venice, California, in order to match the original movie’s European look, and turned the former spy thriller into a horror movie about a crazed madman who kills his models and makes sculptures out of their dead bodies. Campbell was available for the reshoots and insisted on a sizeable paycheck to appear in the film, reportedly angering Corman, who nonetheless agreed to the actor’s demands. Hill added all of the beatnik-related scenes shot with Sid Haig and Jonathan Haze, and was responsible for what many fans believe is the single most effective sequence in the film, the hatchet murder of Melissa Mathes. Magee’s role was more or less retained intact in this version. However, Hill’s version of the film, retitledBlood Bath, has never been released, as Corman once again was unhappy with the results. In 1966, Corman made another attempt to create a workable film. He hired another director, Stephanie Rothman, to change the story as she saw fit. While retaining much of Hill’s footage, she changed the plot from a story about a deranged, murderous artist to a story about a deranged, murderous artist who is also a vampire. Because Campbell refused to participate in yet another reshoot, Rothman was forced to use a completely different actor for the new murder scenes. This meant Rothman now had to provide the Campbell character with the ability to magically transform his physical shape whenever he turned into a vampire, in order to explain why the vampire-killer looked nothing like Campbell. Almost all of the scenes Rothman added, including those with Sandra Knight, were among the most derivative, and therefore the weakest, in the film. This time around, Magee’s role was almost completely excised. He appears as the jealous husband of a nightclub dancer (played by Anna Pavane) who poses for Sordi but is not murdered. He tracks Sordi to his studio and attempts to kill the artist but is pushed into the boiling wax. For reasons known only to him, it was this version of the film that most pleased Corman, and it was subsequently briefly released to theatres by American International Pictures, retaining Hill'sBlood Bathtitle. Both Hill and Rothman

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