RIP Sid Haig
 

Actor Sid Haig, best known as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's movies, has died at the age of 80

https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/act...ig-dead-at-80/

I hope that he'll be able to rest easy.

Shesus, that was sudden. I'd just read that he was only able to do a smaller-than-hoped-for part in "Three From Hell" because of health, but that he was doing enormously better now.

I met him at a convention at Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles outside of Chicago sometime back (maybe '05).

He stuck to his "barnyard riff" pretty tightly, but it was clear he was playing his part. I had a nice interaction with him that went beyond that though, and you could tell that he was a really nice guy, just doing his thing.