Gunnar Hansen Autographs
Gunnar Milton Hansen (March 4, 1947 – November 7, 2015) was an American actor and author best known for playing the mentally impaired cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
Hansen was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, to Icelander Skúli Hansen, a dentist, and Norwegian Sigrid Hansen. He moved to the United States with his mother and brother when he was five years old. He lived in Maine until age eleven, when his family moved to Austin, Texas, where he attended 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.
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 audition. He got the part of Leatherface, the masked killer in the movie.
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Traded items with a signature of Gunnar Hansen
The most expensive item with a signature of Gunnar Hansen (Signed Gunnar Hansen Kane Hodder Dick Warlock Envelope PSA Rare) was sold in May 2025 for $2,417.89 while the cheapest item (gunnar hansen signed picture) found a new owner for $0.99 in May 2017. The month with the most items sold (4) was November 2013 with an average selling price of $9.24 for an autographed item of Gunnar Hansen. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2025 with $1,900.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was June 2010. In average, an autographed item from Gunnar Hansen is worth $49.99.
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