Sid Haig Net Worth

What was Sid Haig's Net Worth?

Sid Haig was an American actor who had a net worth of $1.5 million at the time of his death. Sid Haig was best known for his roles in exploitation and horror films, particularly as psychotic clown Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's "House of 1000 Corpses," "The Devil's Rejects," and "3 from Hell." Haig also acted on many television shows, including "Gunsmoke," "Batman," "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," "Jason of Star Command," and "The Fall Guy."

Early Life and Education

Sid Haig was born Sidney Mosesian on July 14, 1939 in Fresno, California to Armenian parents Roxy and Haig. Growing up, he danced and played the drums, and right after graduating from high school he signed a recording contract. In 1958, Haig had a hit with the song "Full House," which he recorded with the T-Birds. He soon decided to pursue an acting career, encouraged by actor and singer Dennis Morgan, who saw him perform and cast him in a play. Haig went on to enroll at Pasadena Playhouse.

Film Career in the 1960s and '70s

In 1960, Haig made his film acting debut in the short student film "The Host," made by Jack Hill at UCLA. This inaugurated a longstanding partnership with Hill that continued with the feature films "Blood Bath" (1966), "Spider Baby" (1968), and "Pit Stop" (1969). Also during the decade, Haig appeared in "The Firebrand," "It's a Bikini World," "Point Blank," "The Hell with Heroes," and "Che!" Commencing the 1970s, he was in the biker film "C.C. and Company." Haig subsequently reunited with Hill for the 1971 women-in-prison film "The Big Doll House," and the same year appeared in the James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever" and George Lucas's feature directorial debut "THX 1138." He subsequently appeared in four other Hill films: the women-in-prison pictures "The Big Bird Cage" (1972) and "Black Mama, White Mama" (1973) and the blaxploitation films "Coffy" (1973) and "Foxy Brown" (1974). Haig's other credits during this time included "The Woman Hunt," "The No Mercy Man," "Beyond Atlantis," and "Savage Sisters." In the latter half of the decade, he had small parts in "Swashbuckler" and "Loose Shoes."

Further Film Career

In the 1980s, Haig appeared in such films as "Chu Chu and the Philly Flash," "Galaxy of Terror," "Warlords," and "Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II." After acting in "The Forbidden Dance" and "Genuine Risk" in the early 1990s, he retired from acting due to feeling typecast. Haig went on to work as a certified hypnotherapist for five years before he returned to the big screen in 1997 as a judge in Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown," which reunited him with his "Coffy" and "Foxy Brown" co-star Pam Grier.

After another long break from acting, Haig returned in 2003 to play the psychotic clown Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's debut film "House of 1000 Corpses." He reprised this popular role in the sequels "The Devil's Rejects" (2005) and "3 from Hell" (2019), as well as in the 2009 adult animated superhero comedy "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto." Haig also appeared in two other films by Zombie, "Halloween" (2007) and "The Lords of Salem" (2012).

Haig was in a number of other horror films in the '00s, including "House of the Dead 2," "Night of the Living Dead 3D," "Brotherhood of Blood," and "Dark Moon Rising." He also had a role in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" and in the comedy "Little Big Top." In the 2010s, Haig acted in such horror films as "Creature," "Hatchet III," "Bone Tomahawk," and "Death House." His final three films were released posthumously between 2020 and 2023: the slasher "Hanukkah," the horror comedy "Suicide for Beginners," and the puppet horror film "Abruptio."

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Television Career

In the 1960s, Haig had guest roles on various shows, including "The Untouchables," "Batman," "Gunsmoke," "Mission: Impossible," and "Star Trek." He had his two biggest roles on television in the latter half of the 1970s, as Texas on the soap opera satire "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and as the villainous Dragos on the space adventure series "Jason of Star Command." Also during the decade, Haig was in the television film "The Return of the World's Greatest Detective" and in the miniseries "Evening in Byzantium." His credits in the 1980s included episodes of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century," "The Fall Guy," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "The A-Team," and "MacGyver," as well as the television film "Goddess of Love." Haig didn't appear much on television after that, although he was in the 1992 television film "Boris and Natasha: The Movie," and much later, in 2018, lent his voice to an episode of the adult animated series "Tigtone."

Personal Life and Death

In late 2007, Haig married Susan L. Oberg. They remained together until Haig's death on September 21, 2019 from pneumonia.

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