Known for Acting
He is best known for his role in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) andTexas Chainsaw 3D (2013) as Grandpa Sawyer. He also did a cameo as a police man at the end of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation(1994). John took time off away from the public and the cameras until the 2000s, when he started making appearances and acting in independent films again.[1]John has most recently been seen in The Hospital opposite actor/stuntman Jim O'Rear. 2015 starred in Tony Moran's biopic Horror Icon: Inside Michael’s Mask with Tony Moran.
Born
January 1, 1940 (age 86)
Birthplace
Brazil, Indiana, USA
Filmography
31 films


Skate to Hell
2026 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A group of teenagers steal a supernatural skateboard owned by Satan's son. Now the devil wants it back.


Lookout Weekend: Cruel Summer IV
2025 · 1h 45m
country: Unknown
When a severed human hand is found at a weekend film festival, the actual cast and crew of the CRUEL SUMMER trilogy suddenly find themselves thrown into the middle of a real-life sequel engineered by an unhinged psychopath.


Dinner with Leatherface
2024 · 1h 46m
country: Unknown
A look at poet, author, filmmaker, actor, and horror icon Gunnar Hansen—the original Leatherface in the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Including perspectives from friends, colleagues, filmmakers, actors, and anyone else who knew one of the nicest people affiliated with the horror genre.


Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
2024 · 1h 43m
country: Unknown
Set in a bleak future in which the world suffocates under the iron fist of a tyrannical regime. Driven by unyielding determination, Ken Shiro sets out on a perilous mission to find the gate to Hell and save his daughter from the Inferno.


Cruel Summer III: Pray for Fall
2024 · 1h 49m
country: Unknown
Survivors of the bloody "theatre massacre" years earlier must fight for their lives as members of their psychiatric hospital's therapy support group begin falling prey to an unseen psychopath. Deep secrets are uncovered and old friendships are tested as they realize the killer may actually be much closer to them than they ever thought possible.


Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors
2023 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Take a front row seat as we sit down to chat with some of the creators and stars of the best and most beloved exploitation and grindhouse films of the 1970s and 80s. Featuring interviews with John Dugan (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Craig Reed (The Re-Animator), John Russo (Night of the Living Dead), Lynn Lowry (The Crazies), Carl Crew (Blood Diner), and many more independent horror veterans.


Harlow's Haunt
2022 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An ancient evil stalks and claims the souls of anyone who awakens its presence. Children playing with a Ouija board, as adults are confronted with the consequences of dabbling in the occult and must face the true essence of evil at Halloween. Set in the backwoods and swamps of Central Florida, Harlow's Haunt leads you through a maze of treachery and deceit spanning decades on this emotional and harrowing journey to the end - or is it?


The Once and Future Smash
2022 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
In 1970, Mikey and William both portrayed football cannibal Smash-Mouth in the influential cult hit, End Zone 2. Now, 50 years later, only one can wear the mask.


The Macabre
2022 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
Shy girl Molly is having a party. She is inviting her school bullies and has planned one hell of a night. After a party trick goes horribly wrong, each guest is forced into a macabre game of life and death by an ancient demon who forces them to tell horrifying stories.


Attack of the Killer Chickens: The Movie
2022 · 1h 3m
country: United States
It's the dawn of a new age...a chicken age! Humans have been the dominant species for far too long! The chickens have come to roost and they're not clucking around! An invasion of catastrophic proportions has taken place and the weak humans of earth do everything they can to survive in this crazy chicken world!


Holy Shit Man!
2021 · 1h 27m
country: Unknown
A young woman is haunted by the monstrous spirit of the devil's plumber who seeks revenge on those who summon him to reality by calling his name.


Rondo and Bob
2020 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
Robert A. Burns, art director on the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, was obsessed with actor Rondo Hatton aka the Creeper. Burns was average looking but brimming with odd creativity. Hatton, who suffered from acromegaly, had a strangely unique appearance, but was a regular guy. In Rondo and Bob their two stories intersect.


Harp Brothers
2020 · 21m
country: United States
A film about America’s first serial killers. These brothers terrorized Kentucky and went across the state on a killing spree. The film is loosely based on the true story of the brothers. Filmed in historically accurate locations.


Rock, Paper, Scissors
2019 · 1h 24m
country: United States
After being released, a reformed serial killer moves into his family's ancestral estate and is haunted by his past -- both the living and the dead.


Deviant Behavior
2018 · 1h 15m
country: Unknown
A masked self made transgender, on a twisted mission to become the most beautiful woman in town, is interrupted by Charlie Reese, a sleazy private detective who has discovered her world of torture and depravity.


Belly Timber
2016 · 1h 9m
country: United States
For John McCormick's life on the Indiana frontier held nothing but promise. His settlement along the White River would soon become the crossroads of America. Friends and family from back in Ohio and other points east were all making plans to see what all the fuss was about in the newly-formed city of Indianapolis. Yes, things were good. John had his general store and his friend George Pogue had his blacksmith business. Claims were being staked and the relations with the native Indians were amicable. The town was growing and nothing could be better ...or so he thought. In Ohio, an evil was brewing.


The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company
2015 · 1h 10m
country: Unknown
A company of Marines deep behind enemy lines on a top secret mission are out manned and out gunned as they fight their way to hell and back leaving a path of death and destruction in their wake.


Bite School
2015 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Playboy millionaire, Tony Canoni, is caught between a satanic vampire cult and the Yakuza, but taking on undead blood suckers and the Japanese mafia isn't as hard as studying for his GED test at Night School. Based on a true story. Except the mafia part. We all know that there are no such things as the "Japanese".


Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran
2015
country: Unknown
Documentary from Tony Moran


The Boogeyman
2014 · 45m
country: Unknown
Lester Billings is a man tormented by an unseen entity destroying his family one by one, until he is forced to confront the evil taking over his soul. With the help of Dr.Harper, Lester relives his horrific past in a desperate attempt to save his own life.


All Sinner's Night
2014 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Lana Williams's brother Daniel has been been missing for a year, and is considered dead.Halloween marks the one year anniversary of his disappearance.She contacts Dave Shipman, a local investigative reporter whose wife committed suicide the same night suspects a cult is responsible for her death. Beliving there is a link connecting the mysterious events surrounding their deaths,they travel to Taylorsville, Indiana on Halloween night in search of the truth that may lead them to Daniel... or something else more evil than ever imagined.


Butcher Boys
2013 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring Sissy, her brother, Mikey, and friends, Kenny and Barbie, face to face with the macabre world of the Boneboys. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh - dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world.


The Hospital
2013 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Old St. Leopold's Hospital has many urban legends surrounding it, but the residents of Bridgeport all agree on one thing: tortured souls roam its abandoned halls. The mystery proves too much for a pretty young student who decides to investigate for her senior class project. Unfortunately, she does not find ghosts. She, instead, finds Stanley... serial rapist, murderer, and psychopath. As the young girl becomes Stanley's new pet, a team of young investigators descend on the hospital to "hunt some ghosts." Stanley sees nothing but fun and games in his future. But, what Stanley does not know is that the hospital truly is haunted and the restless spirits there are not happy with what he has been doing.


Texas Chainsaw 3D
2013 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars.


Hell-ephone
2008 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Hell-ephone tells the story of a prank gone horribly wrong. A group of college students, led by The Circuit Maker, a Svengali-like professor, make prank calls to funeral homes. After intently researching the obituaries, they try and convince whoever answers the call that they are the deceased calling from the great beyond.
Shudder
Shudder
2007 · 1h 40m
country: United States


The American Nightmare
2000 · 1h 13m
country: United States
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.


The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1995 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A group of teenagers get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths.


The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait
1988 · 1h
country: United States
A documentary about the classic 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' film, including interviews with Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal, John Dugan and Jim Siedow.
Double Exposure
Double Exposure
1980 · 21m
country: Unknown
Punk rock short film


The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.