Bill Moseley

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Bill Moseley
Bill Moseley, January 2006
Born	November 11, 1951 (1951-11-11) (age 57) Barrington, Illinois

William "Bill" Moseley (born November 11, 1951) is an American film actor and musician who has starred in a number of cult classic horror films, including Repo! The Genetic Opera and Army of Darkness His first big role was in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 as Chop Top. He has also released records with guitarist Buckethead, in the band Cornbugs.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Career

At the age of 29, Moseley got his first film role in Alan Rudolph's Endangered Species as a cab driver. In 1985's Osa he played a character named "Quilt Face." His third role has become one of his most well known; he appeared as Chop Top in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, after Tobe Hooper saw him in the independent short, The Texas Chainsaw Manicure. The character spawned the famous film quotes, "Dog will hunt!", "Incoming mail!", and "Lick my plate, you dogdick!".

Two years after TCM 2, he played Frank in 1988's Mamba. Also in 1988 he played Dr. Gilsig in the remake of the Steve McQueen film The Blob. He next played Darrell in the film Pink Cadillac starring Clint Eastwood. He then played the lead role of Ricky Caldwell in Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!. Even after his roles in these films, he still failed to achieve the popularity within the horror community that he had enjoyed after TCM 2.

In 1990, Moseley appeared in three films: Crash and Burn, The First Power, and The End of Innocence. That year, he also portrayed Johnnie in Tom Savini's remake of George Romero's 1968 zombie film, Night of the Living Dead. In 1993, he had a small role in the cult hit Army of Darkness as the Deadite leader. A year later, he was featured in the video game Corpse Killer. In 1997 he did voiceover work, for the film, Anders Jacobsson's Evil Ed, but it was not until 2003 that he would have a role that was just as popular as Chop Top.

That year, he starred as the maniacal Otis B. Driftwood (named after Groucho Marx's character from A Night at the Opera) in Rob Zombie's directorial debut House of 1000 Corpses. As Otis, he again became an icon in the horror community. In 2005, he reprised the role of Otis in the sequel The Devil's Rejects. Moseley's performance inspired an independent campaign for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, which failed.

In 2008, Moseley plays the role of Luigi Largo in Repo! The Genetic Opera. In this futuristic, genetic opera, he was able to network with Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy and ohGr and subsequently, appear's on ohGr's new album Devils in my Details. He mainly speaks at the beginnings or endings of the songs in vivid, poetic rants. He appears on Eyecandy, Feelin' Chicken, Psychoreal, Timebomb, Smogharp, and Witness. Additionally, in 2008, Moseley appeared as a telemarketer in the music video for Combichrist's "Sent to Destroy".

[edit] Personal life

Moseley was born in Stamford, Connecticut, grew up in Barrington Hills, Illinois, and is a graduate of Yale University. He has two daughters, Marion Moseley and Jane Moseley. Moseley posts on the Fangoria message boards as "Bill Moseley" and was the lead singer of the Cornbugs, a three-man band he had between 1999 and 2007 with avant-garde rock/metal guitarist Buckethead and Deli Creeps' drummer, Pinchface. He also contributed vocal parts to the songs I Come In Peace and Onions Unleashed from Buckethead's album Giant Robot (1994).

[edit] Filmography

Bill Moseley at the 2007 Scream Awards for his work on Repo! The Genetic Opera

• Endangered Species (1982)
• Osa (1985)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
• Mamba (1988)
• The Blob (1988)
• Pink Cadillac (1989)
• Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)
• Crash and Burn (1990)
• The First Power (1990)
• The End of Innocence (1990)
• Night of the Living Dead (1990 film) (1990)
• White Fang (1991)
• Inside Out 2 (1992)
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
• Army of Darkness (1993)
• Mr. Jones (1993)
• Blood Run (Outside the law) (1994)
• Prehysteria 3! (1995)
• Evil Ed (1997)
• The Convent (2000)
• Essence of Echoes (2002)
• Live From Baghdad (2002)
• House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
• Vicious (2003)
• Homesick (2004)
• Anderson's Cross (2004)
• The Devil's Rejects (2005)
• All American Massacre (2006 but never released to the public)
• Thr3e (2007)
• Grindhouse - segment Werewolf Women of the S.S. (2007)
• Dead Air (2007)
• Halloween (2007)
• House (2008)
• Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
• The Alphabet Killer (2008)
• The Graves (2008)
• The Devil's Tomb (2009)
• Alone in the Dark II (2009)
• Godkiller: Walk Among Us (2009)

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bill Moseley

• Interview with Bill Moseley
• Chop Top's BBQ, Bill Moseley's official site
• Bill Moseley at the Internet Movie Database