Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Nov 9, 2015 8:41:20 GMT -6
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Gunnar Hansen, Original Leatherface Of Tobe Hooper’s ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Dies At 68
Gunnar Hansen, the actor who first stretched cinema’s most unsettling mask over his head and delivered the iconic Leatherface to our nightmares, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer in Maine. The star of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 drive-in classic Texas Chain Saw Massacre was 68.
“May you spin with your chainsaw at magic hour forever more,” tweeted Edgar Wright, director of Shaun of the Dead. Wright, of course, was referring to the indelible image of Hansen’s psycho Leatherface handling his killer chainsaw like a demented baton-twirling cheerleader. On Facebook, John Dugan, the actor who played Leatherface’s grandfather, wrote “So long Gunn, my old friend……You’ll forever be alive in my heart.”
A native of Iceland who grew up in Maine, Hansen embraced the genre that brought him notoriety, often appearing at fan gatherings and filling his resume with B-movie features like Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers and Freakshow. His book Chain Saw Confidential was published in 2013, and he reportedly was developing a prison-horror movie called Death House at the time of his death, which was confirmed to the Associated Press earlier today by his agent Mike Eisenstadt.
Tweeted Stephen King, a friend and fellow Mainer:
Stephen King ✔ @stephenking
RIP Gunnar Hansen. Scared the excrement out of me as Leatherface; in person, you never met a kinder man.
11:39 AM - 8 Nov 2015
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Gunnar Hansen, Original Leatherface Of Tobe Hooper’s ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Dies At 68
Gunnar Hansen, the actor who first stretched cinema’s most unsettling mask over his head and delivered the iconic Leatherface to our nightmares, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer in Maine. The star of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 drive-in classic Texas Chain Saw Massacre was 68.
“May you spin with your chainsaw at magic hour forever more,” tweeted Edgar Wright, director of Shaun of the Dead. Wright, of course, was referring to the indelible image of Hansen’s psycho Leatherface handling his killer chainsaw like a demented baton-twirling cheerleader. On Facebook, John Dugan, the actor who played Leatherface’s grandfather, wrote “So long Gunn, my old friend……You’ll forever be alive in my heart.”
A native of Iceland who grew up in Maine, Hansen embraced the genre that brought him notoriety, often appearing at fan gatherings and filling his resume with B-movie features like Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers and Freakshow. His book Chain Saw Confidential was published in 2013, and he reportedly was developing a prison-horror movie called Death House at the time of his death, which was confirmed to the Associated Press earlier today by his agent Mike Eisenstadt.
Tweeted Stephen King, a friend and fellow Mainer:
Stephen King ✔ @stephenking
RIP Gunnar Hansen. Scared the excrement out of me as Leatherface; in person, you never met a kinder man.
11:39 AM - 8 Nov 2015
1,858 1,858 Retweets 3,355 3,355 likes