Terry Haig

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]

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]

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.^[6][7][8] The following year, he had a role in the miniseries Human Trafficking.^[9] He also had a supporting role in I'm Not There.^[10]

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.^[11] 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.^[12] 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.^[13] 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.^[14] The program was canceled later that year and replaced with syndicated programing.^[15] He returned to CIQC as Mitch Melnick's sidekick.^[16] He also wrote for the alternative weekly newspapers Hour and the Montreal Mirror.^[17][18] He was the colour analyst for the Montreal Expos radio broadcasts during the 2001 and 2002 seasons.^[1]