Terry Haig

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Terry Haig is a Canadian actor, radio host, and journalist. He had a featured role in the 1973 film, The Pyx and hosted sports radio programs in Montreal during the 1990s.

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Early life

Haig was born in Montreal and grew up in Georgeville, Quebec and suburban New York City. [1] His father was American, but Haig renounced his American citizenship during the Vietnam War. [2] He attended Ohio Wesleyan University and was a sportswriter for the school newspaper. [3] He also worked as a reporter for The Gazette during his summer breaks. After earning his BA in English, he moved to Ibiza and worked on a novel. After a year, he decided to return to New York to study acting under Lee Strasberg. He then returned to Montreal, where he worked as a bouncer and took part in the National Film Board of Canada's actor's workshop program. [2]

Acting

Haig had a small role in Fortune and Men's Eyes . He then played a Department of National Revenue investigator in a NFB film called The Sloane Affair . He also had a role in George Kaczender's U-Turn . In 1973, Haig had a featured role in The Pyx , a thriller starring Karen Black and Christopher Plummer. [2] In the 1974 Canadian federal election, Haig was the New Democratic Party candidate in Shefford. He finished a distant fourth place with 2.42% of the vote. [4] During the late 1970s, he appeared in advertisements for the Office québécois de la langue française. [5]

Radio

A lack of full-time acting work led Haig to return to journalism. [1] He covered the Montreal Expos for the short-lived Montreal Daily News . [6] From 1991 to 1993, he was a baseball reporter for CJAD. He then moved to CIQC, where he hosted the Expos postgame show and was the news anchor on Mitch Melnick's drive time program. [7] He later received his own afternoon talk show. In 1994, his talk show was canceled due to low ratings and he was replaced on the post-game show due to pressure from team management. Haig left CIQC later that year to replace CBMT sports reporter Tom Harrington. [8] In 1996, Haig returned to radio as the host of The Right Call, a sports call-in show on CKGM that ran from 5 to 7 p.m. weekdays. [9] The program was canceled later that year and replaced with syndicated programing. [10] He returned to CIQC as Mitch Melnick's sidekick. [11] He also wrote for the alternative weekly newspapers Hour and the Montreal Mirror . [12] [13] He was the colour analyst for the Montreal Expos radio broadcasts during the 2001 and 2002 seasons. [1]

Return to acting

In 2004, Haig appeared as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector in The Terminal , as a Mayo Clinic doctor in Bittersweet Memories , and as a United States Senator in The Aviator . [14] [15] [16] The following year, he had a role in the miniseries Human Trafficking . [17] He also had a supporting role in I'm Not There . [18]

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  16. ↑ Kelly, Brendan (January 8, 2005). "Aviator may help local actors' careers take off". The Gazette.
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