Bill Moseley
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 House of 1000 Corpses, Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Rejects. 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. Moseley was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in Barrington Hills, Illinois. He is the son of Virginia Gillette (Kleitz), a journalist, and S. D. Moseley (Spencer Dumaresq Moseley), who was a member of the Yale Corporation, All-American captain and center of the 1942 Yale football team, and chairman and chief executive of the Railway Express Agency. His grandfather, George Moseley, also played football at Yale and was an All-American. He is a graduate of Yale University. For a period of time, Moseley operated as a journalist, writing for such magazines as Omni, National Lampoon and Psychology Today.
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Credits
- 2024 · They Turned Us into Killers as
- 2022 · Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self
- 2019 · To Your Last Death as Pavel (voice)
- 2019 · To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell as Self
- 2018 · Eli Roth's History of Horror as Self
- 2018 · Death House as Giger
- 2017 · To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story as Self
- 2015 · Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn as Johnny
- 2014 · Z Nation as General McCandles
- 2013 · Uncle Grandpa as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2013 · Texas Chainsaw 3D as Drayton Sawyer
- 2012 · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Bernie (voice)
- 2010 · The Tortured as Kozlowski
- 2010 · Godkiller: Walk Among Us as Dr. West (voice)
- 2009 · Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet as Graveyard Gus
- 2009 · The Haunted World of El Superbeasto as Otis Driftwood (voice)
- 2008 · Repo! The Genetic Opera as Luigi Largo
- 2008 · The Alphabet Killer as Carl Tanner
- 2007 · Halloween as Zach "Z-Man" Garrett
- 2007 · The Return of the Living Dead: The Decade of Darkness as Self
- 2007 · Grindhouse as Dr. Heinrich von Strasser (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS")
- 2003 · Carnivàle as Possum
- 2002 · Essence of Echoes as Dr. Hilcott
- 2000 · The Convent as Officer Ray
- 1998 · All American Massacre as Chop-Top
- 1997 · The Practice as Jake Spooner
- 1994 · ER as Charlie
- 1993 · Fallen Angels as Customer #1
- 1992 · Army of Darkness as Deadite Captain
- 1992 · Honey, I Blew Up the Kid as Federal Marshall
- 1991 · White Fang as Luke
- 1990 · The End of Innocence as Man on the Hill
- 1990 · Night of the Living Dead as Johnnie
- 1990 · Crash and Burn as Quinn
- 1988 · Freddy's Nightmares as Buzz
- 1988 · The Blob as Soldier #2
- 1987 · Tour of Duty as
- Future · The Mangled as Bill Bates
- 1986 · The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 as Chop-Top
- Future · Subscriber as Jim
- 2026 · The Ascent as Erasmus
- 2026 · Scared to Death as Felix
- 2025 · The Fetus as Maddox
- 2024 · The Devil's Disciples as Dread
- 2023 · Hayride to Hell as Farmer Sam
- 2023 · Natty Knocks as Abner Honeywell
- 2022 · In Search of Darkness: Part III as Self
- 2020 · Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi as Self
- 2020 · I Am Fear as Steve Mccreedy
- 2019 · Slayer: The Repentless Killogy as Nazi Dad
- 2019 · Gothic Harvest as Detective Hollis
- 2019 · Exorcism at 60,000 Feet as Garvan
- 2019 · Shed of the Dead as Doc
- 2019 · In Search of Darkness as Self
- 2018 · The Great American Mud Wrestle as Special Guest Judge
- 2018 · Cynthia as Buttercup
- 2018 · Minutes to Midnight as Gimple
- 2018 · Crepitus as Crepitus
- 2016 · The Possession Experiment as Father Mark Campbell
- 2015 · The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company as Capt. Morrison (Voice)
- 2015 · Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini as Self
- 2015 · Silently Within Your Shadow as Hugo
- 2015 · Old 37 as Darryl
- 2014 · Disciples as Dread
- 2012 · Dead Souls as Sheriff Depford
- 2012 · The Devil's Carnival as The Magician
- 2012 · Eldorado as Lemmas
- 2012 · Rogue River as Jon
- 2011 · Exit Humanity as General Williams
- 2011 · Night of the Little Dead as Kickstand
- 2010 · Anderson's Cross as Mr. Daniels
- 2010 · The Graves as Caleb
- 2009 · Dead Air as Logan Burnhardt
- 2008 · A Perfect Place as Eddie
- 2007 · Thr3e as Slater
- 2006 · Vampira: The Movie as Himself
- 2004 · UnConventional as Self
- 2003 · Vicious as Walace
- 2002 · Point of Origin as Task Force Officer
- 2000 · Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth as Self
- 1995 · Evil Ed as Special Voice Appearance
- 1994 · Blood Run as Hank
- 1982 · Endangered Species as Cab Driver
- Future · Manson Girls as Charles Manson
- 2024 · Night Talkers as Ari Hall
- 2024 · Orum as Leonard
- 2024 · Stream as Jimmy
- 2024 · Ice Nine Kills Presents: Welcome to Horrorwood as Captain Harris
- 2024 · Red Night at Skye's as William Boyd
- 2023 · Night of the Missing as The Caller (segment "Nite Flirt")
- 2022 · Nite Flirt as The Devil
- 2022 · Bad Girl Boogey as Radio DJ (voice)
- 2022 · Murders as Sal Bernando
- 2022 · Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow as
- 2022 · Dead by Midnight (Y2Kill) as Jasper
- 2022 · Sin Eater as
- 2021 · Ice Nine Kills: The Silver Stream as Host
- 2021 · The History of Metal and Horror as Self
- 2021 · Prisoners of the Ghostland as Governor
- 2021 · Texas Carlos Massacre as Self
- 2020 · In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self
- 2019 · 3 from Hell as Otis Driftwood
- 2019 · Big Top Evil as Mr. Kharver
- 2019 · Handy Dandy as Richard Crane
- 2018 · Hangover in Death Valley as Lemmas (archive footage)
- 2018 · Mugworth as Bellousinni
- 2018 · American Exorcist as Mr. Snowfeather
- 2018 · The Church as Pastor James
- 2018 · Toy Box as David Parker Ray
- 2018 · Boar as Bruce
- 2017 · Alcoholist as Grey Speckled Man
- 2017 · Fish as Fisherman
- 2016 · Arlo: The Burping Pig as Ernie Dorko
- 2016 · The Horde as Jacob Sutter
- 2016 · Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival as The Magician
- 2016 · Smothered as Soggy Christian
- 2015 · Medieval Times: The Making of Army of Darkness as Self
- 2015 · Almost Mercy as Pastor Johnson
- 2014 · Charlie's Farm as John Wilson
- 2014 · House of the Witchdoctor as Peter Van Hooten
- 2012 · I Heart Monster Movies as Himself
- 2012 · The Inflicted as Mr. O'Hara
- 2012 · Holliston as Crazy Max
- 2011 · Underground Entertainment: The Movie as Bill
- 2010 · 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams as Mayor Buckman
- 2009 · The Devil's Tomb as Prof. Duncan
- 2008 · House as Stewart
- 2008 · Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween as Self
- 2008 · Alone in the Dark 2 as Dexter
- 2007 · Headcheese as Self (as Chop Top)
- 2007 · Fallen Angels as Westin
- 2007 · Babysitter Wanted as Chief Dinelli
- 2007 · Home Sick as Mr. Suitcase
- 2006 · Quackers! as Self (as Chop Top)
- 2006 · A Dead Calling as Chief Murken
- 2006 · Evil Bong as Bong World Patron
- 2006 · It Runs in the Family as Himself
- 2005 · 30 Days in Hell: The Making of 'The Devil's Rejects' as Self
- 2005 · The Devil's Rejects as Otis B. Driftwood
- 2003 · House of 1000 Corpses as Otis B. Driftwood
- 2002 · Live from Baghdad as Rex
- 1995 · Prehysteria! 3 as Director
- 1993 · Mr. Jones as Worker
- 1993 · James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction as Self
- 1992 · Inside Out 2 as Dave (segment "I've Got a Crush on You")
- 1990 · The First Power as Bartender
- 1989 · Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! as Ricky
- 1989 · Pink Cadillac as Darrell
- 1988 · Fair Game as Frank
- 1986 · Osa as Quilt Face
- Future · Spawn of the Living Dead as Dr. Harold Ornsby
- Future · Chastise as Bronco
- Future · Organism 46-B The Unseen as Dr. Lincoln Tucker
- Future · Covet as Sheriff Troy
- Future · Baltigore as The Traveler
- 1986 · Nightmare Angel as Dr. William de Freis
- Future · Blades in the Darkness 2 as Victor