Gunnar Hansen
Gunnar Hansen was born in Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland on March 4th, 1947 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 68, Gunnar Hansen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Gunnar Milton Hansen (March 4, 1947 – November 7, 2015) was an Icelandic-born American actor and writer best known for his appearance in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
Early life
Hansen was born in Reykjavk, Iceland, to Icelander Skli Hansen, a dentist, and Norwegian Sigrid Hansen. He and his mother and brother were moved to the United States when he was five years old. He lived in Maine until age 11, when his family moved to Austin, Texas, where he attended Austin High School and the University of Texas at Austin. As an undergraduate, he majored in English and mathematics and then went to graduate school in Scandinavian Studies and English.
Career
Before beginning to college, his first job out of high school was as a computer operator. He was also a football player in high school and a bar bouncer for a while. Hansen heard that the Texas Chain Saw Massacre was being shot in Austin right after graduating from high school and decided to audition. He appeared in Leatherface, the film's masked killer.
Hansen returned to acting in 1988 after writing (and occasionally editing) for magazines and writing books, appearing in the horror spoof Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. Since being an actor in 20 films, including Texas Chainsaw 3D as one of the Sawyers, he appeared in 20 films. He viewed his later activities as a side job and continued to write books. He also wrote and directed documentary films, as well as film scripts.
Hansen was also a writer; his nonfiction travel book Islands at the Edge of Time; A Journey to America's Barrier Islands was released in 1993. He wrote the nonfiction book Chain Saw Confidential about the development and reception of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 2013. In addition, he taught college as an adjunct professor.