John Luessenhop graduated from University of Virginia, Georgetown University Law Center, and film schools at UCLA and NYU. ^[1]

He is the director of Takers,^[2] starring Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, Michael Ealy, T.I., Chris Brown and Hayden Christensen.

He also directed the 2000 film Lockdown.

His next film is the upcoming horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D.

References[link]

External links[link]

• John Luessenhop at the Internet Movie Database

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Bill Moseley
Bill Moseley, January 2006
Born	William Moseley (1951-11-11) November 11, 1951 (age 60) Barrington, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1982–present

William "Bill" Moseley (born November 11, 1951) is an American film actor and musician who has starred in a number of cult classic horror films, including House of 1000 Corpses, Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Rejects. His first big role was in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 as Chop Top. He has also released records with guitarist Buckethead in the band Cornbugs, as well as featuring on the guitarist's solo work. He is also known for his role as "Luigi Largo" in Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Career[link]

At the age of 29, Moseley got his first film role in Alan Rudolph's Endangered Species as a cab driver. In 1985's Osa he played a character named "Quilt Face." His third role has become one of his most well known; he appeared as Chop Top in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, after Tobe Hooper saw him in the independent short, The Texas Chainsaw Manicure. The character spawned the famous film quotes, "Dog will hunt!", "Incoming mail!", and "Lick my plate, you dogdick!".

Two years after TCM 2, he played Frank in 1988's Mamba. Also in 1988 appeared as a soldier in the remake of the Steve McQueen film The Blob. He next played Darrell in the film Pink Cadillac starring Clint Eastwood. He then played the lead role of Ricky Caldwell in Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!. Even after his roles in these films, he still failed to achieve the popularity within the horror community that he had enjoyed after TCM 2.

In 1990, Moseley appeared in three films: Crash and Burn, The First Power, and The End of Innocence. That year, he also portrayed Johnnie in Tom Savini's remake of George A. Romero's 1968 zombie film, Night of the Living Dead. In 1993, he had a small role in the cult hit Army of Darkness as the Deadite Captain. A year later, he was featured in the video game Corpse Killer. In 1997 he did voiceover work, for the film, Anders Jacobsson's Evil Ed.

He would not, however, have a role as popular as Chop Top until 2003, when he starred as the maniacal Otis B. Driftwood (named after Groucho Marx's character from A Night at the Opera) in Rob Zombie's directorial debut House of 1000 Corpses. As Otis, he again became an icon in the horror community. In 2005, he reprised the role of Otis in the sequel The Devil's Rejects. Moseley's performance inspired an independent campaign for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, which failed.

In 2008, Moseley played the role of Luigi Largo in Repo! The Genetic Opera. In this futuristic, genetic opera, he was able to network with Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy and ohGr, subsequently appearing on ohGr's new album Devils in my Details. He mainly speaks at the beginning or ending of the songs in vivid, poetic rants. He appears on Eyecandy, Feelin' Chicken, Psychoreal, Timebomb, Smogharp, and Witness. Additionally, in 2008, Moseley appeared as a telemarketer in the music video for Combichrist's "Sent to Destroy".

Moseley contributed songs to the 2008 soundtrack of Vampira: The Movie, a documentary by Kevin Sean Michaels on Maila Nurmi, in which he also stars. It was released on Collectables Records, a division of Alpha Video.

He appears as Kozlowski in Robert Lieberman's 2009 thriller film The Tortured.^[1]

Moseley plays The Magician ^[2] in The Devil's Carnival, an upcoming film from Darren Lynn Bousman and Terrance Zdunich of Repo! fame to be screened on tour beginning in April, 2012. ^[3]

Personal life[link]

Moseley was born in Stamford, Connecticut, grew up in Barrington Hills, Illinois,^{[citation needed]} and is a graduate of Yale University. He has two daughters, Marion Moseley and Jane Moseley.

Moseley (as Chop Top) was the lead singer of Cornbugs, a three-man band he had between 1999 and 2007 with avant-garde rock/metal guitarist Buckethead and Deli Creeps' drummer, Pinchface. He also contributed vocal parts to the songs I Come In Peace (as a news reporter) and Onions Unleashed (as Onions) from Buckethead's album Giant Robot (1994) and Jowls from Buckethead's album Monsters and Robots (1999), also as Chop Top.

Moseley, along with Rani Sharone, released the album No Way Down, calling themselves Spider Mountain.^[4]

Filmography[link]

Moseley at the 2007 Scream Awards for his work on Repo! The Genetic Opera

• Endangered Species (1982)
• Osa (1985)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
• Mamba (1988)
• The Blob (1988)
• Pink Cadillac (1989)
• Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)
• Crash and Burn (1990)
• The First Power (1990)
• The End of Innocence (1990)
• Night of the Living Dead (1990)
• White Fang (1991)
• Inside Out 2 (1992)
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
• Army of Darkness (1993)
• Mr. Jones (1993)
• The Getaway (1994)
• Blood Run (Outside the law) (1994)
• Prehysteria 3! (1995)
• Evil Ed (1997) (voice)
• The Convent (2000)
• Point of Origin (2002)
• Essence of Echoes (2002)
• Live from Baghdad (2002)
• House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
• Vicious (2003)
• Anderson's Cross (2004)
• The Devil's Rejects (2005)
• Evil Bong (2006)
• Fallen Angels (2006)
• A Dead Calling (2006)
• All American Massacre (2006 but never released to the public)
• Thr3e (2007)
• Grindhouse – segment Werewolf Women of the S.S. (2007)
• Home Sick (2007)
• Halloween (2007)
• House (2008)
• A Perfect Place (2008)
• Babysitter Wanted (2008)
• Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
• The Alphabet Killer (2008)
• Alone in the Dark II (2008)
• The Devil's Tomb (2009)
• The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009) (voice)
• Dead Air (2009)
• Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)
• 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
• The Graves (2010)
• Godkiller: Walk Among Us (2010) (voice)
• The Tortured (2010)
• Eldorado (2010)
• Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D (2010)
• Exit Humanity (2011)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D (2012)
• Manson Girls (2012)
• The Devil's Carnival (2012)
• The Art of Villainy (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bill Moseley

• Interview with Bill Moseley
• Chop Top's BBQ, Bill Moseley's official site
• Vampira: The Movie soundtrack featuring Bill Moseley
• Bill Moseley at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Bill Moseley 2011 (video) at 9. Weekend Of Horrors
• Interview with Bill Moseley at Eye for Film

Gunnar Hansen
Hansen At Cinema Wasteland in Cleveland, OH, April 4, 2009
Born	(1947-03-04) March 4, 1947 (age 65) Reykjavík, Iceland
Occupation	Actor

Gunnar Milton Hansen (born March 4, 1947) is an Icelandic-born actor and author best known for playing the mentally impaired cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

Early life[link]

Hansen was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and moved to the United States when he was five. He lived in Maine until age eleven, when his family moved to Texas, where he attended both Austin High School and the University of Texas at Austin. He majored in English and mathematics as an undergraduate, and then went to graduate school in Scandinavian Studies and English.

Career[link]

His first job out of high school was as a computer operator, before he began theater work during college. He was also a football player during high school, and for a while a bar bouncer. In 1973, just after finishing graduate school, Hansen heard that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was being filmed in Austin and decided to try out. He got the part of Leatherface, the masked killer in the movie. Hansen apparently visited and studied special needs kids in order to determine mannerisms for Leatherface.

After the success of the movie, Hansen co-starred in Demon Lover, but after the experience he decided not to continue acting, instead pursuing a writing career. In 1975, after one extra year of graduate school, Hansen moved back to Maine and started writing. During this time he rejected a part he was offered in the cult horror film The Hills Have Eyes.

After writing (and occasionally editing) for magazines and writing books, Hansen returned to acting in 1988, appearing in the horror spoof Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, and has appeared in 20 films since. He considers his recent acting as a side project and has continued to write books. He has also written film scripts, and writes and directs documentary films.

Hansen is also an author; his nonfiction travel memoir, Islands at the Edge of Time, A journey to America's Barrier Islands, was published in 1993. In addition, he has taught college as an adjunct instructor.

Filmography[link]

• Knight of the Living Dead (2005) (special thanks)

Self - filmography[link]

• Terror in the Aisles (1984) - archival footage
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait (1988)
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (2000)
• Leatherface Speaks: An Informal Interview with Gunnar Hansen (2001)
• Behind the Attic Door: The Making of "Rachel's Attic" (2002)
• UnConventional (2004)
• Flesh Wounds: Seven Stories of the Saw (2006)

See also[link]

• The White Bird

References[link]

• Heins, Catherine (July 29, 1998). "White Bird's trail fading - Many convinced trans-Atlantic flier made it to Maine". Bangor Daily News. 

External links[link]

• Gunnar Hansen official web site
• Gunnar Hansen at the Internet Movie Database