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  1. Tobe Hooper. Director: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Honored with many awards for his films and achievement in the horror genre, Tobe Hooper is truly one of the Masters of Horror (2005). Tobe Hooper was born in Austin, Texas, to Lois Belle (Crosby) and Norman William Ray Hooper, who owned a theater in San Angelo. He spent the 1960s as a college professor and documentary cameraman. In 1974, he ...

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    Tobe Hooper nel 2014. William Tobe Hooper ( Austin, 25 gennaio 1943 – Los Angeles, 26 agosto 2017 [1]) è stato un regista e sceneggiatore statunitense, specializzato nel genere horror, del quale fu uno dei più influenti autori [2] .

  3. Tobe Hooper. William Tobe Hooper (* 25. Januar 1943 in Austin, Texas; † 26. August 2017 in Sherman Oaks, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur, Produzent und Drehbuchautor, der vornehmlich im Genre des Horrorfilms arbeitete. Seine bekanntesten Filme sind Blutgericht in Texas (1974) und Poltergeist (1982).

  4. Aug 27, 2017 · Tobe Hooper was born in Austin, Texas on January 25, 1943 and by the age of 9, he was already making movies at home with his father’s 8mm camera. In the 1960s, he began making commercials and industrial shorts. From there, he made the 1964 short “The Heisters,” a 1968 documentary for PBS about folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and his ...

  5. Aug 27, 2017 · Tobe Hooper, the horror movie pioneer whose low-budget sensation The Texas Chain Saw Massacre took a buzz saw to audiences with its brutally frightful vision, has died. He was 74. The Los Angeles ...

  6. Aug 27, 2017 · Tobe Hooper, who shaped the face of modern horror with Texas Chainsaw Massacre and exploited bad TV signal feed in Poltergeist, has passed away at 74. Hooper broke into the industry working on documentaries in the ’60s after upbringing and education in Austin, Texas. Cinema verite filmmaking was in style during the ’70s after William ...

  7. Aug 27, 2017 · The director Tobe Hooper, who died Saturday at 74, will always be remembered for one spectacularly terrifying low-budget horror film, and that’s because it happens to be one of the most uncanny ...