# Goodbye Captain Spaulding (RIP Sid Haig) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [September 23, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706 "2019-09-23T15:41:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/1 "2019-09-23T15:41:17Z")
[Sid Haig](https://ew.com/movies/2019/09/23/sid-haig-dies-house-of-1000-corpses/), who played the clown Captain Spaulding in the movies _House of 1000 Corpses_ and _The Devil’s Rejects_ has died. His family has been quiet about the details, but his health has been poor for a while. I consider those movies to be classic late night low-budget horror goodness. I am sad he has left us and am sad there will be no more movies. A third movie was just released (_Three from Hell_) with Sid in a reduced role. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/2 "2019-09-23T15:46:15Z")
This is a little bit of a gut punch. The last I read, he was improving. I may have to pull out my _Spider Baby_ DVD in memoriam. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/3 "2019-09-23T15:49:03Z")
He definitely played a compelling bad guy, he will be missed in future Rob Zombie productions. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/4 "2019-09-23T16:47:53Z")
He was in an ep of “The A-Team” as a jailbird, along with Hannibal Smith (not Lecter). Hannibal kept calling him various names, like ‘Lizard Breath’ and “The 200-pound cockroach.” For all his B-movies, I mostly remember him as the bad guy from one of those Saturday Morning Sci-Fi programs (the name of which escapes me currently, and I don’t feel like looking it up). ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/5 "2019-09-23T17:14:46Z")
He was also in one of my favorite episodes of Sledge Hammer!, as one of Dench’s thugs (the one that Hammeroid mentally regressed to a toddler, the episode also guest starred Richard Moll and Armin Shimmerman) Didn't he also play a lot of the baddies in the old Sid and Marty Krofft "specials"? Sorry to hear of his passing, he seemed to relish the cheesy roles and had a great sense of humor ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/6 "2019-09-23T17:37:19Z")
Diamonds are Forever Slumber Inc. Attendant: The stiff, ehm, the deceased back there… Your brother, Mr. Franks? James Bond: Yes, it was. Slumber Inc. Attendant (Al Haig): I got a brudder. James Bond: Small world. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/7 "2019-09-23T17:44:28Z")
A largely unappreciated actor. Obligatory IMDb [link](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354085/). A quite impressive resume. Not just horror films: 3 episodes each of _Get Smart_ and of _Fantasy Island_. A lot of _Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman_. Some _Hill Street Blues_, _McGyver_, etc. Tarantino gave him a cameo in _Kill Bill, Vol. 2_ as Jay the strip club bartender. The guy worked. And from what I understand a nice, fun guy in real life. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/8 "2019-09-23T18:15:52Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > For all his B-movies, I mostly remember him as the bad guy from one of those Saturday Morning Sci-Fi programs (the name of which escapes me currently, and I don’t feel like looking it up). Dragos, in _Jason of Star Command_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/9 "2019-09-23T19:06:11Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > 3 episodes each of _Get Smart_… I’ll have to look them up on IMDb (unless you want to post them). I have the _Get Smart_ boxed set on DVD. (Of course I do.) ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/10 "2019-09-23T19:10:14Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > And from what I understand a nice, fun guy in real life. Yes, we met him at a Horror Movie convention in 2017. He was very funny and approachable. I have a picture I took with him on my Facebook page today. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/11 "2019-09-23T19:13:48Z")
I remember him mainly for two roles - the first one I saw him in, as a villain of some sort on _Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman_, and the one time I remember him not playing a villain, on _Fantasy Island_. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/12 "2019-09-23T19:18:04Z")
Bah! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-captain-spaulding-rip-sid-haig/840706/13 "2019-09-23T19:43:57Z")
Antonio in Che! NCH in THX 1138 Omar in Coffy Hays in Foxy Brown the Judge in Jackie Brown The Genie in Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (the TV show) Quuhod in Galaxy of Terror of course Captain Spaulding There’s more roles he played in dozens of TV shows and movies I’ve seen, but I remember those best. He was instantly recognizable and a ddamned fine actor. RIP Mr. Haig; you done good. Thank you.