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BILL MOSELEY's acting career spans two millennia and includes performances in plays, on television and in movies ranging from Disney's White Fang to Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses.
Moseley graduated with a BA in English from Yale University, where he and partner Gary Lucas ran a midnight horror film series called Things That Go Bump in the Night. He started his professional life as an advertising copywriter in Boston before settling in New York City.
After serving as Editor-in-Chief of the late, great CB Bible, Moseley worked as a freelance writer for such publications as Omni, Rolling Stone, Interview, National Lampoon and Psychology Today. He also worked in SoHo art galleries like Leo Castelli?s and Sperone, Westwater, Fischer and toured the Eastern seaboard for Marvel comics as Spider-Man.
Moseley landed the job as the plate-scratching Chop-Top in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 , after sending Hooper his 5-minute video spoof called The Texas Chainsaw Manicure, wherein he licked a hunk of actual head cheese as the Hitchhiker!
Moseley's film credits include Pink Cadillac with Clint Eastwood, Charles Band's Crash & Burn, Tom Savini's remake of Night of the Living Dead, Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness, Silent Night, Deadly Night 3, directed by Monte Hellman, and the aforementioned Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and House of 1000 Corpses. On television, Moseley plays Possum, the carnival cook, in HBO's offbeat series, Carnivale and can be seen as a CBS newsman in HBO's Live from Baghdad.
Moseley also sings in a band called Cornbugs, featuring former Guns N Roses guitar god, Buckethead.
Credit: cinemareview.com
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