Tobe Hooper

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1943 age 0

   Born

2. 1974 age 31

   CreditThe Texas Chain Saw Massacredirector

   CreditThe Texas Chain Saw Massacreproducer

   CreditThe Texas Chain Saw Massacrecomposer

   CreditThe Texas Chain Saw Massacrescreenwriter

3. 1982 age 39

   CreditPoltergeistdirector

4. 1986 age 43

   CreditThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2director

   CreditThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2composer

   CreditThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2screenwriter

5. 2003 age 60

   CreditThe Texas Chainsaw Massacreproducer

6. 2006 age 63

   CreditThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginningproducer

7. 2017 age 74

   Died

• JLJohn Larroquette3 titles
• KHKim Henkel3 titles
• RER. Lee Ermey2 titles
• KLKathy Lamkin2 titles
• SJSteve Jablonsky2 titles
• MBMichael Bay2 titles
• ABAndrew Bryniarski2 titles
• JSJim Siedow2 titles
• WVWilliam Vail2 titles
• DPDaniel Pearl2 titles

• I wanted to be an actor or be a director since I was a very small child. I mean, my mother went into labor at a movie theater. There were, like, four movie theaters around us when I was growing up in Austin. Movies became my babysitter. I think I saw more films than I saw reality. Then I noticed something when I was in my late teens that really made my thinking shift in what I wanted to do with film. When I was watching a film as a young man, there would be a second or two when I drifted outside of myself. I noticed how for a moment, in the image and music and train of information, I was traveling through the film, leaving myself. And I knew that was something I wanted to do. I wanted to see how long I could make that feeling go on—if I could take someone outside themselves, outside their body for a minute, five minutes, maybe even 80 minutes, 90 minutes.

  Tobe Hooper, CC BY-SA 4.0