Bill Moseley Biography

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, as well as featuring on the guitarist's solo work. He is also known for his role as "Luigi Largo" in Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Career

For a period of time, Bill Moseley operated as a journalist, writing for such magazines as Omni Magazine, National Lampoon and Psychology Today. 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 appeared as a soldier 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 Johnny in Tom Savini's remake of George A. 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 Captain. 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.

He would not, however, have a role as popular as Chop Top until 2003, when 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 played 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, subsequently appearing on ohGr's new album Devils in my Details. He mainly speaks at the beginning or ending 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 to the 2008 soundtrack of Vampira: The Movie, a documentary by Kevin Sean Michaels on Maila Nurmi, in which he also stars. It was released on Collectables Records, a division of Alpha Video.

He appears as Kozlowski in Robert Lieberman's 2009 thriller film The Tortured.

Moseley plays The Magician in The Devil's Carnival, an upcoming film from Darren Lynn Bousman and Terrance Zdunich of Repo! fame, which began screening on tour beginning in April, 2012.

Moseley has also provided voice-over recordings for the Florida based heavy metal band - Generichrist and also British goth-metal band Sinnergod on their upcoming album.

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 (as Chop Top) was the lead singer of 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), also as Chop Top.

Moseley, along with Rani Sharone, released the album No Way Down, calling themselves Spider Mountain.

Filmography

• 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)
• White Fang (1991)
• Inside Out 2 (1992)
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
• Army of Darkness (1993)
• Mr. Jones (1993)
• The Getaway (1994)
• Blood Run (Outside the law) (1994)
• Prehysteria 3! (1995)
• Evil Ed (1997) (voice)
• The Convent (2000)
• Point of Origin (2002)
• Essence of Echoes (2002)
• Live from Baghdad (2002)
• House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
• Vicious (2003)
• Anderson's Cross (2004)
• The Devil's Rejects (2005)
• Evil Bong (2006)
• Fallen Angels (2006)
• A Dead Calling (2006)
• All American Massacre (2006 but never released to the public)
• Thr3e (2007)
• Grindhouse " segment Werewolf Women of the S.S. (2007)
• Home Sick (2007)
• Halloween (2007)
• House (2008)
• A Perfect Place (2008)
• Babysitter Wanted (2008)
• Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
• The Alphabet Killer (2008)
• Alone in the Dark II (2008)
• The Devil's Tomb (2009)
• The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009) (voice)
• Dead Air (2009)
• Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)
• 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
• The Graves (2010)
• Godkiller: Walk Among Us (2010) (voice)
• The Tortured (2010)
• Eldorado (2010)
• Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D (2010)
• Exit Humanity (2011)
• Manson Girls (2012)
• The Devil's Carnival (2012)
• The Art of Villainy (2012)
• Rogue River (2012)
• Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
• Mugworth (2013)