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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 (episodes 41 and 42), Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Get Smart, Fantasy Island, Sledge Hammer!, The A-Team, The Fall Guy and MacGyver.
The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses, Halloween, Spider Baby, Coffy, Bone Tomahawk, Foxy Brown, Jackie Brown, Galaxy of Terror, The Big Doll House, THX 1138, The Big Bird Cage, Black Mama White Mama, Brotherhood of Blood, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Little Big Top, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto...
TV Shows
Jason of Star Command
Star Sign
Cancer
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Trademark
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Deep baritone voice
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Towering height
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Shaved head
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Quote
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[on why he retired 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 anything to do with it.
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We shot the film [Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)] in eleven or twelve days, something crazy like that. And for the first two days, I was almost hiding from him. Not that I was afraid of him but I just didn't know what you say to someone like Lon Chaney Jr.. And at one point, Jack said, "We're ready, where's Chaney? Sid, go get him, okay?" So I went over and I knocked on his trailer door and I said, "Mr. Chaney, they're ready for you." And he said, "No, stop that. I'm not Mr. Chaney, okay? I'm Lon, you're Sid, we're working together. Let's just keep it at that, okay?" And so it kind of put me at ease and made talking to him and hanging around him a little easier to do.
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When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate. We don't educate. So I've taken that onto myself. Now am I a good educator? I don't know. If someone latches onto a concept of mine, then I've taught well; otherwise, I'll have to rethink my stand on things. But in a country where individualism is supreme and synonymous with being an American, it's all vanished - it's all gone now. You go to college, and you know what you learn in college? How to work for somebody else. I teach an acting class for teenagers in the summer - I have for the past fourteen years. I don't encourage them to go to college: you want to be an actor? Be an actor. If you have to starve to do it, starve to do it. But if you're not passionate about what you want to do, you won't be good at it.
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Well, for one reason or another I felt it was necessary to keep making money in the business. I've done over 350 episodics, in either feature or starring roles, and 34 films. I felt at the time I had to do that, because I had a family. I had the choice of falling back on selling cars or whatever -- nothing against car salesmen -- or purposefully taking on the lion. Walking right into the den and saying "Here I am, and you're going to have to deal with me." And that's what I did. Was I a successful father? Maybe not. Was I a successful husband? Probably not. Was I a successful actor? Probably not.
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He is left-handed.
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Was considered for the role of Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Was considered for the role of Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction.
Received both the Universal Eyegore Award for lifetime achievement and the prestigious Premi Maria Honorifica at the Sitges International Film Festival (2010).
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Managed a community theater in Simi Valley, California, called Stage and Video Education Theatre (S.A.V.E.), which operated from 1989 until 2004.
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Formed his own corporation, The Haig Group, with his wife Susan L. Oberg, of which he is Founder and President (2006).
Not exactly fond of the dialogue he was given in Galaxy of Terror (1981), Haig opted to play the character mute for most of the movie. When producer Roger Corman asked him why he was trying to play the role without dialogue, Haig's response was, "Have you read it?".
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As of 2006, Haig donates 10% of his profits from conventions and appearances to charity. He also continues to enjoy a flourishing revival of his career.
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He and Pam Grier appeared in many "blaxploitation" films in the 1970s, Haig usually playing a thug. So when Grier walked onto the courtroom set of Jackie Brown (1997), and saw that Quentin Tarantino had cast him as the judge, she burst out laughing.
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Drummer for the late 1950s band The T-Birds, who released the single "Full House".
$10 Million
