Actor Gunnar Hansen, best known for his playing the in-bred cannibal, Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has died at age 68.
The Icelandic born American actor died on Saturday after suffering from pancreatic cancer.
According to his agent, Mike Eisenstadt, Hansen died at his home in Maine, where he lived for 40 years.
Hansen had moved to Maine from Reykjavik at the age of five with his family. They then re-located to Texas, where he attended high-school and university where he studied English and Scandinavian Studies.
He secured the part of Leatherface just after finishing graduate school, after he heard it was being filmed in Austin. Hansen leaves behind him, his partner of 13 years Betty Tower. bye.
