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Charles Haid

{{Short description|American actor and director (born 1943)}}

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| birth_name = Charles Maurice Haid III

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|06|2}}

| birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.

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| occupation = Actor, director

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| children = 2

| years_active = 1973–present

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Charles Maurice Haid III (born June 2, 1943) is an American actor and television director, with notable work in both movies and television.{{cite book |last=Willis |first=John |author-link=John A. Willis |date=1973 |title=Theatre World 1971-1972 Season |volume=28 |publisher=Crown Publishers |page=238 |isbn=0-517-500965}} He is best known for his portrayal of Officer Andy Renko in Hill Street Blues.

Formative years

Haid was born in San Francisco, the son of Grace Marian (née Folger) and Charles Maurice Haid Jr. He is of Dutch (original last name Van Heidt) and Irish descent.{{cite web | url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19821112.2.125&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- | title=Desert Sun 12 November 1982 — California Digital Newspaper Collection }} He attended Palo Alto High School, then Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he met Steven Bochco. He was associate producer of the original stage production of Godspell in 1971, which was developed at CMU.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

Career

Haid's acting credits include the 1976/1977 series Delvecchio as Sgt. Paul Schonski, the 1980s series Hill Street Blues as Officer Andy Renko, and the 1980 movie Altered States as Dr. Mason Parrish. In 1984, Haid was cast as "The Fatman" (or just "Fats")[http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=10043 The House of God] at the Literature, Arts and Medicine Database of NYU. in the never released movie The House of God.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

In 2004–05, he played C.T. Finney, a corrupt New York police captain on the sixth season of the NBC show Third Watch. Haid provided the voice of the one-legged rabbit "Lucky Jack" in the 2004 Disney animated film Home on the Range. Twenty years earlier, Haid had voiced main character "Montgomery Moose" in the pilot episode of The Get Along Gang, produced by Nelvana. He was replaced by Sparky Marcus for the subsequent series.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

His directing credits include an episode of ER that earned him a Directors Guild Award and nominations for the TV movie Buffalo Soldiers and an episode of NYPD Blue. He was a regular director on the FX series Nip/Tuck. He also directed for the FX series Sons of Anarchy and AMC's Breaking Bad. He was a regular director for the CBS series Criminal Minds, for which he also portrayed serial killer Randall Garner (a.k.a. "The Fisher King").{{cn|date=July 2022}}

Selected filmography

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  • {{IBDB name|83301}}
  • {{iobdb name|9994}}

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Category:1943 births

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:American television directors

Category:American people of Dutch descent

Category:American people of Irish descent

Category:Living people

Category:Palo Alto High School alumni

Category:Male actors from San Francisco

Category:Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni

Category:Directors Guild of America Award winners