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.
Biography
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".
Moseley contributed songs on the 2008 soundtrack of Vampira: The
Movie, which he also starred in, the documentary by
Kevin Sean Michaels on
Maila Nurmi. It was released on Collectables
Records, a division of Alpha Video.
Moseley potrayed Kozlowski in the
Robert Lierbeman Thriller film The
Tortured.
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 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 (as a
news reporter) and
Onions Unleashed (as Onions) from
Buckethead's album
Giant Robot (1994) and
Jowls from Buckethead's album
Monsters and Robots (1999) as
Choptop.
Filmography
References
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