Actors who played Leatherface in films
Alter ego: Thomas Hewitt / “Junior” Sawyer / Jedidiah “Jed” Sawyer / Jackson Sawyer
A mentally disabled member of a Sawyer family of deranged cannibals, featuring his now iconic face masks and chainsaw.
Created by screenwriters Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper in 1974 horror film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
A mentally disabled member of a Sawyer family of deranged cannibals, featuring his now iconic face masks and chainsaw.
Created by screenwriters Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper in 1974 horror film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
List activity
1 view
• 1 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
9 people
- He was born in Reykjavik, Iceland and moved to the United States at the age of 5. Gunnar lived in Maine till he was 11, his family then moving to Texas, where he went to high school before attending the University of Texas. At the university, he did some theater work and majored in English and mathematics before going on to graduate in English and Scandinavian Studies. Despite graduating in the aforementioned fields, his first job out of high school was as a computer operator.
In the summer of 1973, he heard that Tobe Hooper and others were in town to work on a movie and decided to try out for a part. After interviewing with Tobe Hooper and the writer of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Kim Henkel, he was cast in the role of the disturbed, mentally handicapped killer, Leatherface.
After Chainsaw, Hansen went on to work as a freelance writer for magazines for several years before going on to write books, one later being set in Iceland about purported serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas. He has gone on to write multiple screenplays - one co-written with his partner Gary Jones, director of Mosquito (1994)).
Gunnar also directed a documentary on Greenland and had a stint designing web pages for GTE.The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - Actor
- Music Department
- Composer
Bill Johnson was born on 16 December 1951 in Texas, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), D.O.A. (1988) and Ultima VII: The Black Gate (1992).The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)- Actor
- Producer
- Stunts
R.A. Mihailoff was born on 31 July 1956 in Townville, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for License to Drive (1988), Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) and Slasher.com (2017).Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
Kane Hodder was born on April 8, 1955 in Auburn, California. He is best known for his role as horror icon Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988), Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), Jason Goes to Hell (1993), and Jason X (2001). He is also known for his role as the deformed serial killer Victor Crowley in Hatchet (2006), Hatchet II (2010), and Hatchet III (2013).Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) (as stunts)- Actor
- Composer
- Stunts
Robert Jacks was born on 9 August 1959 in Monterey, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), A Troll's Bridge (2002) and Scary Movie (1991). He died on 8 August 2001 in Austin, Texas, USA.Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995)- Actor
- Producer
Andrew Bryniarski was born on February 13, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 6' 5" actor is a former bodybuilder. He came to Hollywood for a short summer vacation to visit a friend, was spotted by a talent scout who set up a screen test for Joel Silver, and all of a sudden he was acting alongside Bruce Willis and James Coburn in Hudson Hawk (1991). Since then, Andrew has worked with Al Pacino, James Woods, Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry, and Cuba Gooding Jr. to mention just a few, as well as Hong Kong's best including Hark Tsui and Woo-Ping Yuen. His film work includes Pearl Harbor (2001), Tim Burton's Batman Returns (1992), Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday (1999), Rollerball (2002), Scooby-Doo (2002), Street Fighter (1994), The Program (1993), and John Singleton's Higher Learning (1995).
He also appeared on TV in FX's 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003), which received enormous ratings and broke several records. His other guest appearances on TV shows has included in L.A. Law (1986), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993), Firefly (2002), Without a Trace (2002), and Burn Notice (2007). Andrew was included by Entertainment Weekly in 2003's "It List" of the top 100 creative people in Hollywood. He also starred in New Line's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), playing the killer known as 'Leatherface". He reprised the role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006).
He is involved in all outdoor activities from mountain climbing to horseback riding, and lives a healthy lifestyle, working out at the gym and practicing yoga.1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Dan Yeager is known for Texas Chainsaw (2013), The Once and Future Smash (2022) and Zombie Bear Attack.Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)- Actor
- Soundtrack
Sam Strike was born on 18 January 1994 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Mindhunter (2017), Chernobyl (2019) and The Boys in the Boat (2023).Leatherface (2017) as Jeddiah Sawyer / Jackson- Actor
- Producer
MARK BURNHAM is an actor and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. After college, Mark began training at the MET Theatre, where he was a founding member of the MET Theatre Workshop under the tutelage of, and studying along side Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize winners. Through the 1990's, Mark could be seen on television in MAG7, Buffy, 3rd Rock, Action, Sunset Beach, USA High, and Warden Of Red Rock. In 2012, Mark met Quentin Dupieux and spent the next two years working with the auteur director and DJ on four films; WRONG from DraftHouse, WRONG COPS ep1, WRONG COPS (feat), and REALITE' from IFC Midnight. In 2014 Mark Co-Produced the English language film HIDDEN IN THE WOODS from Chilean director Patricio Valladares and Sony Releasing. In 2018 Mark was seen in student Academy Award winner Ryan Prows first feature LOWLIFE playing Teddy Haynes from IFC Midnight. Before the pandemic shutdown in 2020, Mark was cast in the Legendary Entertainment and Netflix film THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE as Leatherface.Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)