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Birth Name: Gunnar Milton Hansen
Date of Birth: 4 March, 1947
Place of Birth: Reykjavík, Iceland
Date of Death: November 7, 2015
Place of Death: Northeast Harbor, Maine, U.S.
Ethnicity: * father – Icelandic * mother – Norwegian
Gunnar Hansen was an American actor, and author. He starred as Leatherface in the film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). He also appeared in Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers , Campfire Tales , Mosquito , Murder-Set-Pieces , Swarm of the Snakehead , Reykjavík Whale Watching Massacre , and Death House (2017), the latter of which he also co-wrote.
He was born in Reykjavík, the son of Sigrid Eva Saetersmoen and Skúli Eggert Hansen, a dentist. He moved to the U.S. with his mother when he was five, living in Maine, and then in Austin, Texas.
Source: Obituary of Gunnar Hansen – https://www.mdislander.com