Terry Haig
Early life
Haig was born in Montreal and grew up in Georgeville, Quebec and suburban New York City. His father was American, but Haig renounced his American citizenship during the Vietnam War. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University and was a sportswriter for the school newspaper.{{cite news |last1=Haig |first1=Terry |title=Bishops Sluggishly Beat Denison, Pioneers |url=https://ohio5.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15963coll9/id/111121/ |access-date=21 October 2024 |work=The Ohio Wesleyan Transcript |date=February 12, 1964}} He also worked as a reporter for The Gazette during his summer breaks. After earning his BA in English, he moved to Ibiza and worked on a novel. After a year, he decided to return to New York to study acting under Lee Strasberg. He then returned to Montreal, where he worked as a bouncer and took part in the National Film Board of Canada's actor's workshop program.
Acting
Haig had a small role in Fortune and Men's Eyes. He then played a Department of National Revenue investigator in a NFB film called The Sloane Affair. He also had a role in George Kaczender's U-Turn. In 1973, Haig had a featured role in The Pyx, a thriller starring Karen Black and Christopher Plummer.{{cite news |last1=Kapica |first1=Jack |title=Montreal actor finds the top close to home |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gn4xAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA85 |access-date=21 October 2024 |work=The Gazette |date=October 20, 1972}} In the 1974 Canadian federal election, Haig was the New Democratic Party candidate in Shefford. He finished a distant fourth place with 2.42% of the vote.{{cite web |title=1974 Federal Election |url=https://canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/index.php?p=0&type=election&ID=606#page_1=quebec&page_2=constituency_2408 |website=Canadian Elections Database |access-date=21 October 2024}} During the late 1970s, he appeared in advertisements for the Office québécois de la langue française.{{cite news |last1=Blackman |first1=Ted |title=Terry Haig takes off for fame in Toronto |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v2UxAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3 |access-date=21 October 2024 |work=The Gazette |date=November 14, 1979}}
In 2004, Haig appeared as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector in The Terminal, as a Mayo Clinic doctor in Bittersweet Memories, and as a United States Senator in The Aviator.{{cite news |last1=Gilbey |first1=Ryan |date=September 2004 |title=The Terminal |work=Sight and Sound}}{{cite news |last1=Griffin |first1=John |date=December 17, 2004 |title=A performer at the pinnacle |work=The Gazette}}{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Brendan |date=January 8, 2005 |title=Aviator may help local actors' careers take off |work=The Gazette}} The following year, he had a role in the miniseries Human Trafficking.{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Brendan |date=May 25, 2005 |title=Why Sutherland loves our city |work=The Gazette}} He also had a supporting role in I'm Not There.{{cite news |last1=Hays |first1=Matthew |date=September 30, 2006 |title=What's that blowin' in the wind? |work=The Globe and Mail}}
Radio
A lack of full-time acting work led Haig to return to journalism. He covered the Montreal Expos for the short-lived Montreal Daily News.{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=Mike |title=No world issue is beyond Journal host's rasp |work=The Gazette |date=February 20, 1991}} From 1991 to 1993, he was a baseball reporter for CJAD. He then moved to CIQC, where he hosted the Expos postgame show and was the news anchor on Mitch Melnick's drive time program.{{cite news |title=Haig follows Melnick to CIQC |work=The Gazette |date=February 23, 1993}} He later received his own afternoon talk show. In 1994, his talk show was canceled due to low ratings and he was replaced on the post-game show due to pressure from team management. Haig left CIQC later that year to replace CBMT sports reporter Tom Harrington.{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=Mike |title=CIQC's new afternoon show designed to attract more women |work=The Gazette |date=February 22, 1994}} In 1996, Haig returned to radio as the host of The Right Call, a sports call-in show on CKGM that ran from 5 to 7 p.m. weekdays.{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=Mike |title=Talk station launched with fighting words |work=The Gazette |date=January 13, 1996}} The program was canceled later that year and replaced with syndicated programing.{{cite news |last1=Chodan |first1=Lucinda |title=CKGM cans 2 local hosts: Syndicated shows get preference over Albert Nerenberg, Terry Haig |work=The Gazette |date=August 31, 1995}} He returned to CIQC as Mitch Melnick's sidekick.{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=Mike |title=A Show With No Name: Mitch Melnick behind the wheel of CIQC's quirky, no-rules, drive-home radio show |work=The Gazette |date=June 15, 1997}} He also wrote for the alternative weekly newspapers Hour and the Montreal Mirror.{{cite news |title=Verbatim: Words from the week |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=September 27, 1997}}{{cite news |last1=Todd |first1=Jack |title=Winning the Big One |work=The Gazette |date=December 31, 1999}} He was the colour analyst for the Montreal Expos radio broadcasts during the 2001 and 2002 seasons.{{cite news |last1=Hickey |first1=Mike |title=Haig to analyze Montreal Expos on Team 990 |work=The Record |date=May 7, 2001}}
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