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Birth Name: Thomas Brown Hewitt

Relationship Status: Single

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Description: "Leatherface's" real name is Thomas Hewitt, and his mother Sloane died giving birth to him on August 7, 1939 at the Blair Meat Co., a slaughterhouse where she worked, and her uncaring boss leaves the infant to die in a dumpster. Luda May Hewitt finds him and takes him home to raise him. The Hewitts worked at the Blair Meat Co., but after losing their jobs they switched to kidnapping people, murdering them (often by chainsaw or shotgun) and butchering their flesh, as family member Charlie claims that he got the idea from eating human flesh in the Korean War after he became a prisoner. He also ate a woman because he had ... (more)

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Kyle Ellis posted a comment 1 year, 9 months ago

“Played by: Gunnar Hansen

Film(s): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

The poster child of Tobe Hooper's horrifying original (and all the unfortunate sequels, remakes and remake prequels that followed), Leatherface is the sort of guy who gives DIY enthusiasts a bad name. A maniac of a manchild who, in the original at least, has a mask for every occasion (made out of the skin of former victims, a trait nicked from the real-life killer Ed Gein), Leatherface is the attack dog of the Sawyer family, looming out of the darkness to kill people with one blow of a hammer, hang others on hooks, and wave a chainsaw around in a manner that would frankly infuriate Tim The Toolman Taylor. Played with genuine menace by Gunnar Hansen, Leatherface was divested of much of his scarin”