Badmouth » sid haig http://www.badmouth.net Look, Ma! No pants! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Interview: Sid Haig http://www.badmouth.net/interview-sid-haig/ http://www.badmouth.net/interview-sid-haig/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:24:33 +0000 John Marcotte http://www.badmouth.net/wordpress/interview-sid-haig/ Captain SpauldingSid as Captain Spaulding from House of 10,000 CorpsesSid Haig was born, Sidney Eddie Mosesian, on July 14th 1939, in Fresno California.

At a young age Sid developed an affinity for dancing. And by the age of seven he was dancing for pay children�s shows and vaudeville revivals.

A true Renaissance man, Sid complimented his dancing by playing the drums, and later, acting. Sid is a veteran of the Pasadena Playhouse, the school that produced other Hollywood stars, including Robert Young, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman.

After two years of the Playhouse, Sid moved to Hollywood with longtime friend and roommate Stuart Margolin (Angel on The Rockford Files.)

Sid�s first job was in a student film by a young director by the name of Jack Hill at UCLA. This early meeting was the beginning of a decades-long working relationship and friendship.

After taking a leave of absence in 1992 because he was tired of playing "the heavy with the gun," Sid was recruited by Quentin Tarantino to play the judge in who sentences Pam Grier in Jackie Brown.

Other roles soon followed, most notably Captain Spaulding in House of 10,000 Corpses.

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]]> http://www.badmouth.net/interview-sid-haig/feed/ 10 interview: jack hill http://www.badmouth.net/interview-with-jack-hill/ http://www.badmouth.net/interview-with-jack-hill/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:37:56 +0000 John Marcotte http://www.badmouth.net/wordpress/interview-with-jack-hill/ Cult filmmaker Jack Hill is legendary for several reasons. A graduate of the the Roger Corman school of filmmaking, Hill got his start in horror films, working with Lon Chaney, Jr., Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff, among others. He went on to virtually invent the women-in-prison genre and discovered blaxploitation queen Pam Grier in the process. With Grier, he went on to make some of the most influential blaxsploitation films of the seventies, including Coffy and Foxy Brown.

But what made Hill truly legendary among cult directors was that his films were profitable. All of his movies made money, except Switchblade Sisters, and with its successful rerelease, even that minor blot has been erased from his record.

A favorite of Quentin Tarantino's, Hill's films are enjoying a resurgence on video and DVD as well as on the festival circuit.

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