Gunnar Hansen

ACTOR, WRITER

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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. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Sujit R. Varma (edited by James Hubble)

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Gunnar Hansen’s flixes, followed by Microsoft Store compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Gunnar Hansen on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1976 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Gunnar Hansen movies released per year from 1999 till 2021.

Top Genres

Gunnar Hansen works mostly in Horror Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 43% of Gunnar Hansen movies are Horror Genre movies. See Top Genres that Gunnar Hansen worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Gunnar Hansen has worked on is 4.9.

4.9 / 10

Gunnar Hansen's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Comedy
Brutal Massacre: A Comedy (2007)

Harry Penderecki, a once heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood. He hasn't had a hit film in years, and most in the industry, including his close ...

5.8/1094 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Comedy,Horror
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)

A detective embarks on a mission to track down a woman in L.A.'s seedy nightclubs, only to come face-to-face with a blood-thirsty cult of lethally beautiful prostitutes. Is he the next victim of Hollywood's demented Chainsaw Hookers?

5.3/1075 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Horror,Sci-Fi
Mosquito (1994)

A violent massacre caused by human-sized mosquitoes forces the lone survivors to band together in a fight for survival as the mosquitoes continue their onslaught.

4.7/1092 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Horror
The Deepening (2006)

THE DEEPENING follows a troubled N.Y. fireman suffering from PTSD after working the events of 9-11. Seeking a fresh start, he relocates to a small town. His nightmares, however, do not subside as the population of the town decreases.

4.4/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Horror,Thriller
Hellblock 13 (1999)

In a haunted death row cellblock, a deranged female serial killer reads a trio of twisted tales to her executioner.

4.1/1090 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Horror
The Demon Lover (1976)

A group of teenagers hanging around a cemetery get involved with a satanic priest who calls up a demon from hell.

3.3/1083 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Horror
Death House (2017)

Two guards fighting through a power breakdown inside the secret 'Death House' prison must fight to survive ruthless inmates and even supernatural horrors.

2.9/1095 min

Available in 8 platform(s).