In this case I’m not referring to Alonzo Mosely, the ever-frustrated lawman from the film Midnight Run, but rather the real Mosely. That is, Bill Mosely. Now I mean no offense to Mr. Mosely (the real one) when I say that sometimes celebrities show up so often at autograph shows that I end up getting them just to get them crossed off the list of potentials. And sometimes their names starts to become so familiar because they appear at so many shows, when I really don’t know much of their work after all. This applies, on both counts, to this actor.
His claim to fame at the horror conventions is that he starred in a lead role in the two Rob Zombie films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects. When Mosely first started coming to the conventions, I hadn’t even seen the films. I have now, which made his encounter a little more enticing at least.
Interestingly he’s been in the industry for quite some time, but scanning his filmography yielded none of my must-get sitcoms, nor must-get films, although he did star in some of which I am familiar: Clint Eastwood’s Pink Cadillac, Honey I Blew Up the Kid, Army of Darkness, Grindhouse, and the TV series Carnivale, ER, and Father Dowling’s Mysteries.
But what it really boiled down to was that I had seen him so often at shows, that I didn’t want to one day have the regret “I saw him so many times; now it’s too late.” And price. It sometimes comes down to price. $20 got you a signed photo and a photo op, and he generously allowed Carolyn one for free as well. So at the Days of the Dead event in Indianapolis, I finally crossed Bill Mosely off my list.
Besides, his character name in the Zombie films was Otis Driftwood. Any Marx Brothers fan has to appreciate that…
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