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Charles Haid

 
Director: Charles Haid
 
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  • Born: Jun 02, 1943 in San Francisco, California
  • Occupation: Director, Actor
  • Active: '70s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama
  • Career Highlights: Altered States, Cop, The Third Miracle
  • First Major Screen Credit: The House of God (1979)

Biography

After a goodly number of stage appearances, Charles Haid made his TV-movie bow in 1974's The Execution of Private Slovik. A year later, he was cast in his first weekly-series role, playing the priest/attorney brother of lawyer Anne Meara in Kate McShane; he followed this with a one-year hitch on the detective series Delvecchio. In 1977, he made his big-screen entree in The Choirboys. In 1981, Haid played good-ole-boy police officer Andy Renko in the TV series Hill Street Blues, a role he essayed until the series' cancellation in 1987 (Renko was shot down and presumed killed in the opening episode, but audience reaction to Haid was so positive that he was resurrected in episode #2). Having directed several Hill Street episodes, Haid was well prepared for his feature-length directorial debut, the cable-TV production Cooperstown; Haid has since directed Iron Will (1994), a seriocomedy about dogsledding, for the big screen. Charles Haid is married to actress Deborah Richter. Charles Haid is the cousin of talk-show host Merv Griffin. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Charles Haid
Born Charles Maurice Haid III
June 2, 1943 (1943-06-02) (age 66)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Spouse(s) Elisabeth Harmon-Haid (1992-2002)
Deborah Richter (1985-1988)
Penelope Windust (19??-1983)

Charles Maurice Haid III (born June 2, 1943) is an American actor and director, with notable work in both movies and television.

Haid was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Grace Marian (née Folger) and Charles Maurice Haid, Jr.[1] He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he met Steven Bochco. He was associate producer of the original production of Godspell in 1971, which was developed at CMU.

Haid's acting credits include the 1980s police drama series Hill Street Blues, as Officer Andy Renko, and as Dr. Mason Parrish in the 1980 movie Altered States. His directing credits include an episode of ER which earned him a Directors Guild Award, and DGA nominations for the TV-movie Buffalo Soldiers and an episode of NYPD Blue. He is also a regular director on the current FX series, Nip/Tuck, and the CBS series Criminal Minds (on which he also portrayed serial killer Randall Garner, AKA "The Fisher King").

During a visit to New Zealand in the 1980s, Haid was interviewed for a television news program, and surprised many viewers when he discussed his Shakespearean background, and love of live stage work.

In 2004-2005 Charles Haid played C. T. Finney, a corrupt New York Police Captain on the sixth season of the NBC show Third Watch. Veronica Hamel also guest-starred as the mother of New York firefighter Alex Taylor as part of the NBC 75th Anniversary programming in May 2002, along with Marinaro and Weitz.

Haid is a cousin of late television talk show host Merv Griffin.

References

  1. ^ Charles Haid Biography (1943-)

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