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William Moseley (better known as Bill Moseley, November 11, 1951 in Stanford, Connecticut) is an American horror film actor who has starred in a number of cult classic horror films. His first big role was in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 as Chop Top.

Biography

At the age of 39, 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 is one of his most well known; he appeared as Chop Top in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. 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. The same year, he played Dr. Gilsig in the remake of the Steve McQueen film The Blob. He next played Darrell in the film Pink Cadillac, starring Clint Eastwood. The same year, he played the lead role of Ricky Caldwell in Silent Night, Deadly Night 3 but still did not achieve the same popularity within the horror community as he had with 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 Johnnie in Tom Savini's remake of George 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 leader. 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, but it was not until 2003 that he would have a role that was just as popular as Chop Top.

That year, he starred as the maniacal Otis Driftwood (named after Groucho Marx's character from Animal Crackers) in Rob Zombie's directorial debut House of 1000 Corpses. As Otis, he again became somewhat of an icon in the horror community. In 2005, he reprised the role of Otis again in the sequel to House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, which gained more positive critical opinions (including two thumbs up from Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper).

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Filmography

• Endangered Species (1982)
• Osa (1985)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 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)
• Blood Run (Outside the law) (1994)
• Prehysteria 3! (1995)
• Evil Ed (1997)
• The Convent (2000)
• Essence of Echoes (2002)
• Live From Baghdad (2002)
• House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
• Vicious (2003)
• Homesick (2004)
• Anderson's Cross (2004)
• The Devil's Rejects (2005)

Trivia

• He was chosen to play Chop Top in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 because Tobe Hooper was impressed with him in the 1974 TCM spoof The Texas Chainsaw Manicure.
• Father of actress, Marion Moseley.
• Moseley posts on the Fangoria message boards as "Bill Moseley".
• Moseley is the lead singer of "Cornbugs," a two-man band he has with Buckethead (of Guns N Roses).

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