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