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Charles Haid
Charlie Haid Haid is the director and actor of Third Watch
Personal Information
Gender: Male
Nickname: Charlie
Born: June 2, 1943
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States
Occupation/
Career: 		Motion picture actor and director
Years Active: 1973–present
Notable roles: ER
Hill Street Blues
Criminal Minds
Roles: Actor (Captain Cathel Finney)
Director
Crew information
Appeared on: Third Watch
First episode: Jimmy's Mountain
Last episode: The L Word
Episodes appeared in: 12


Charles Haid (born June 2, 1943, in San Francisco, California, USA) is a motion picture actor and director. He is an episodic director for Third Watch and helmed four episodes across the series six season run. He debuted with the first season episode "Jimmy's Mountain" in 2000 and final time to direct and acting the episode "The L Word" for the show's sixth and final season in 2005. He has also worked on the Constant c Productions series ER as a director and a recurring cast member. He is best known for his starring role as Officer Andrew Renko in Hill Street Blues. He also portrays as Captain Cathel Finney.

Biography

Early life

Haid was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Grace Marian (née Folger) and Charles Maurice Haid, Jr. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), 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 1976/1977 police drama series Delvecchio as Sgt. Paul Schonski, the 1980s police drama series Hill Street Blues as Officer Andy Renko, and the 1980 movie Altered States as Dr. Mason Parrish. In 2004-2005 Haid 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 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 DGA nominations for the TV-movie Buffalo Soldiers and an episode of NYPD Blue. He is a regular director on the FX series Nip/Tuck. He has also directed for the FX series Sons of Anarchy and AMC's Breaking Bad. He is a regular director for the CBS series Criminal Minds, for which he also portrayed serial killer Randall Garner (aka "The Fisher King").

Credits

Director

Acting

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