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A scene from "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," directed by Tobe Hooper. Gunnar Hansen, who played the villain, Leatherface, died in 2015.
Bryanston Distributing, via Photofest; thumbnail, Nocturna International Fantastic Film Festival, 2014
Tobe Hooper
Died on August 26, 2017 at age 74
Mr. Hooper used the insight of just how terrifying a chain saw in the wrong hands could be to make one of the most influential horror movies of the last century, “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.”
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.