Best known for his hot-under-the-collar cop, Officer Andy Renko,
on the hit '80s series Hill Street Blues (1981), he later concentrated on TV directing
and producing, winning the Director's Guild Award for his work on
another hit series, ER (1994).
Attended the Woodstock (NY) music festival in 1969.
Son of Charles Maurice Haid Jr. and Grace Marian Folger, children:
Arcadia Elizabeth, Brittany Catherine.
Has two daughters, Arcadia Elizabeth Haid and Brittany Catherine Haid, with Penelope Windust.