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