William "Bill" Moseley (born November 11, 1951) is an American film actor and musician who has starred in a number of cult classic horror films, including House of 1000 Corpses, Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Rejects. His first big role was in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 as Chop Top. He has also released records with guitarist Buckethead, in the band Cornbugs. Moseley was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in Barrington Hills, Illinois. He is the son of Virginia Gillette (Kleitz), a journalist, and S. D. Moseley (Spencer Dumaresq Moseley), who was a member of the Yale Corporation, All-American captain and center of the 1942 Yale football team, and chairman and chief executive of the Railway Express Agency. His grandfather, George Moseley, also played football at Yale and was an All-American. He is a graduate of Yale University. For a period of time, Moseley operated as a journalist, writing for such magazines as Omni, National Lampoon and Psychology Today.

Filmography

• 2026Blades in the Darkness 2 — Victor
• 2026Scared to Death — Felix
• 2025The Fetus — Maddox
• 2024Ice Nine Kills Presents: Welcome to Horrorwood — Captain Harris
• 2024Night Talkers — Ari Hall
• 2024Orum — Leonard
• 2024Red Night at Skye's — William Boyd
• 2024Stream — Jimmy
• 2024The Devil's Disciples — Dread
• 2024They Turned Us into Killers
• 2023Hayride to Hell — Farmer Sam
• 2023Natty Knocks — Abner Honeywell
• 2023Night of the Missing — The Caller (segment "Nite Flirt")
• 2022Bad Girl Boogey — Radio DJ (voice)
• Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
• 2022Dead by Midnight (Y2Kill) — Jasper
• 2022Murders — Sal Bernando
• 2022Nite Flirt — The Devil
• 2022Sin Eater
• 2021Ice Nine Kills: The Silver Stream — Host
• 2021Prisoners of the Ghostland — Governor
• 2020Dark Roads 79 — Caretaker Joseph Willams
• 2020I Am Fear — Steve Mccreedy
• 20193 from Hell — Otis Driftwood
• 2019Big Top Evil — Mr. Kharver
• 2019Exorcism at 60,000 Feet — Garvan
• 2019Gothic Harvest — Detective Hollis
• 2019Handy Dandy — Richard Crane
• 2019Shed of the Dead — Doc
• 2019Slayer: The Repentless Killogy — Nazi Dad
• 2019To Your Last Death — Pavel (voice)
• 2018American Exorcist — Mr. Snowfeather, Producer
• 2018Boar — Bruce
• 2018Crepitus — Crepitus
• 2018Cynthia — Buttercup
• 2018Death House — Giger
• 2018Hangover in Death Valley — Lemmas (archive footage)
• 2018Minutes to Midnight — Gimple
• 2018Mugworth — Bellousinni
• 2018The Church — Pastor James
• 2018The Great American Mud Wrestle — Special Guest Judge
• 2018Toy Box — David Parker Ray
• 2017Alcoholist — Grey Speckled Man
• 2017Fish — Fisherman
• 2016Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival — The Magician
• 2016Arlo: The Burping Pig — Ernie Dorko
• 2016Smothered — Soggy Christian
• 2016The Horde — Jacob Sutter
• 2016The Possession Experiment — Father Mark Campbell
• 2015Almost Mercy — Pastor Johnson
• 2015Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn — Johnny
• 2015Old 37 — Darryl
• 2015Silently Within Your Shadow — Hugo
• 2015The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company — Capt. Morrison (Voice)
• 2014Charlie's Farm — John Wilson
• 2014Disciples — Dread
• 2014House of the Witchdoctor — Peter Van Hooten
• Z Nation — General McCandles
• 2013Texas Chainsaw 3D — Drayton Sawyer
• Uncle Grandpa — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2012Dead Souls — Sheriff Depford
• 2012Eldorado — Lemmas
• Holliston — Crazy Max
• 2012Rogue River — Jon
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Bernie (voice)
• 2012The Devil's Carnival — The Magician
• 2012The Inflicted — Mr. O'Hara
• 2011Exit Humanity — General Williams
• 2011Night of the Little Dead — Kickstand
• 2011Underground Entertainment: The Movie — Bill
• 20102001 Maniacs: Field of Screams — Mayor Buckman
• 2010Anderson's Cross — Mr. Daniels
• 2010Godkiller: Walk Among Us — Dr. West (voice)
• 2010The Graves — Caleb
• 2010The Tortured — Kozlowski
• 2009Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet — Graveyard Gus, Associate Producer
• 2009Dead Air — Logan Burnhardt
• 2009The Devil's Tomb — Prof. Duncan
• 2009The Green Monster — Thanks
• 2009The Haunted World of El Superbeasto — Otis Driftwood (voice)
• 2008A Perfect Place — Eddie
• 2008Alone in the Dark 2 — Dexter
• 2008House — Stewart
• 2008Repo! The Genetic Opera — Luigi Largo
• 2008The Alphabet Killer — Carl Tanner
• 2007Babysitter Wanted — Chief Dinelli
• 2007Fallen Angels — Westin
• 2007Grindhouse — Dr. Heinrich von Strasser (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS")
• 2007Halloween — Zach "Z-Man" Garrett
• 2007Home Sick — Mr. Suitcase
• 2007Thr3e — Slater
• 2006A Dead Calling — Chief Murken
• 2006Charles Band's Evil Bong — Bong World Patron
• 2005The Devil's Rejects — Otis B. Driftwood
• Carnivàle — Possum
• 2003House of 1000 Corpses — Otis B. Driftwood
• 2003Vicious — Walace
• 2002Essence of Echoes — Dr. Hilcott
• 2002Live from Baghdad — Rex
• 2002Point of Origin — Task Force Officer
• 2000The Convent — Officer Ray
• 1998All American Massacre — Chop-Top
• The Practice — Jake Spooner
• 1995Evil Ed — Special Voice Appearance
• 1995Prehysteria! 3 — Director
• 1994Blood Run — Hank
• ER — Charlie
• Fallen Angels — Customer #1
• 1993Mr. Jones — Worker
• 1992Army of Darkness — Deadite Captain
• 1992Honey, I Blew Up the Kid — Federal Marshall
• 1992Inside Out 2 — Dave (segment "I've Got a Crush on You")
• 1991White Fang — Luke
• 1990Crash and Burn — Quinn
• 1990Night of the Living Dead — Johnnie
• 1990The End of Innocence — Man on the Hill
• 1990The First Power — Bartender
• 1989Pink Cadillac — Darrell
• 1989Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! — Ricky
• 1988Fair Game — Frank
• Freddy's Nightmares — Buzz
• 1988The Blob — Soldier #2
• 1987Nightmare Angel — Dr. William de Freis
• Tour of Duty
• 1986Osa — Quilt Face
• 1986The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 — Chop-Top
• 1982Endangered Species — Cab Driver
• Baltigore — The Traveler
• Chastise — Bronco
• Covet — Sheriff Troy
• Manson Girls — Charles Manson
• Organism 46-B The Unseen — Dr. Lincoln Tucker
• Spawn of the Living Dead — Dr. Harold Ornsby
• Subscriber — Jim
• The Ascent — Erasmus
• The Mangled — Bill Bates

Appearances as themselves (25)

• 2026Scum of the Earth — Self
• 2022Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story — Self
• 2022In Search of Darkness: Part III — Self
• 2021Texas Carlos Massacre — Self
• 2021The History of Metal and Horror — Self
• 2020In Search of Darkness: Part II — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi — Self
• 2019In Search of Darkness — Self
• 2019To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell — Self
• Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self
• 2017To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story — Self
• 2015Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness" — Self
• 2015Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini — Self
• 2012I Heart Monster Movies — Self
• 2011FEARnet's Movies with More Brains — Self
• 2008Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween — Self
• 2007Headcheese — Self (as Chop Top)
• 2007The Return of the Living Dead: The Decade of Darkness — Self
• 2006It Runs in the Family — Self
• 2006Quackers! — Self (as Chop Top)
• 2006Vampira: The Movie — Himself
• 200530 Days in Hell: The Making of 'The Devil's Rejects' — Self
• 2004UnConventional — Self
• 2000Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth — Self
• 1993James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction — Self