Charles Haid


Charles Maurice Haid III is an American actor and television director, with notable work in both movies and television. He is best known for his portrayal of Officer Andy Renko in Hill Street Blues.

Formative years

Haid was born in San Francisco, the son of Grace Marian and Charles Maurice Haid Jr. He is of Dutch and Irish descent. He attended Palo Alto High School, then Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he met Steven Bochco. He was associate producer of the original stage production of Godspell in 1971, which was developed at CMU.

Career

Haid's acting credits include the 1970s television series Delvecchio as Sgt. Paul Schonski, the 1980s series Hill Street Blues as Officer Andy Renko and the 1980 movie Altered States as Dr. Mason Parrish. In 1984, Haid was cast as Fats, a physician, in the United Artists film The House of God about medical interns in a busy city hospital. In 1988, Haid starred in the television film Weekend War with Stephen Collins.
In 2004–05, he played C.T. Finney, a corrupt New York police captain on the sixth season of the NBC show Third Watch. Haid provided the voice of the one-legged rabbit "Lucky Jack" in the 2004 Disney animated film Home on the Range. Twenty years earlier, Haid had voiced main character "Montgomery Moose" in the pilot episode of The Get Along Gang, produced by Nelvana. He was replaced by Sparky Marcus for the subsequent series.
His directing credits include an episode of ER that earned him a Directors Guild Award and nominations for the television film Buffalo Soldiers and an episode of NYPD Blue. He was a regular director on the FX series Nip/Tuck. He also directed for the FX series Sons of Anarchy and AMC's Breaking Bad. He was a regular director for the CBS series Criminal Minds, for which he also portrayed serial killer Randall Garner.

Selected filmography

  • Gunsmoke - "Like Old Times" as Hargis
  • Harry O - "The Admiral's Lady" as Sgt. Garvey
  • The Execution of Private Slovik as Brockmeyer
  • Alex & the Gypsy as Second Goon
  • The Choirboys as Nick Yanov
  • A Death in Canaan as Sgt. Case
  • The Bastard as George Lumden
  • Who'll Stop the Rain as Eddie Peace
  • Deathmoon as Earl Wheelie
  • Oliver's Story as Stephen Simpson
  • The New Adventures of Wonder Woman - "The Girl with a Gift for Disaster" as Bob Baker
  • Altered States as Mason Parrish
  • Pray TV as Buck Sunday
  • Twirl as Matt Jordan
  • Hill Street Blues as Officer Andy Renko
  • Divorce Wars: A Love Story as Fred Bemous
  • The House of God as Fats
  • Six Against the Rock as Sam Shockley
  • Weekend War as Sgt. Kupjack
  • Cop - Delbert 'Whitey' Haines
  • The Rescue as Cmdr. Howard
  • The Great Escape II: The Untold Story as Sgt. MacKenzie
  • The Revenge of Al Capone as Alex Connors
  • Fire and Rain
  • Nightbreed as Captain Eigerman
  • The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story as Al Badham / Cowardly Lion
  • Storyville as Abe Choate
  • For Their Own Good as Hank
  • Iron Will
  • Riders of the Purple Sage
  • NYPD Blue - "Good Time Charlie" as Charli
  • Home on the Range as Lucky Jack
  • Sensitivity Training as Glenn