Edwin Neal Biography

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Edwin Neal (b. July 12, 1945) is an American actor, best known for his role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).

Born in Houston, Texas, Neal, after high school, studied at Lon Morris college in Jacksonville, Texas, before moving on to acting and directing studies at the University of Texas at Austin. While there, Neal auditioned for the role of the Hitchhiker in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and got it. He has said that when auditioning he acted as an eccentric relative of his. The movie went on to become a cult classic and Neal's career was launched.

Neal never received a role as big as of his debut role, but he still continues to act. His most notable roles since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were playing the Mercer interrogator in Oliver Stone's JFK, and Big Chuck's Henchman in the 1993 movie My Boyfriend's Back. He has also done some voice work, for computer games and cartoons. Neal also annually tours worldwide making many public appearances as "The Hitchhiker" at science fiction conventions and related gatherings.

Neal was inducted into the "Hollywood Horror Hall of Fame" in 1993, and owns one of the world's largest movie poster collections, from 1900 to the present day. He also owns Leatherface's apron, worn in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He received a Bronze Star for Valor during his service in Vietnam in 1969.

Neal currently lives in Austin, Texas and has six children: Kirsche, David, Heidi, Morna, Preston, and Marlee.

Voice Acting Roles

Doctor Eggman and The President in Sonic The Hedgehog

Tanuki in Happy Lesson

External link

Edwin Neal

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• 1. Sally: [to The Cook] You're crazy! Please, you've got to make them stop.
  2. Hitchhiker: [laughing and mocking Sally] He can't stop it. He's just a cook!
  3. Old Man: [to the Hitchhiker] Shut up, you bitch hog!
  4. Hitchhiker: Isn't that right? Me and Leatherface do all the work. You're just the cook.
  5. Old Man: Shut your mouth! I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it.
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Gavin S (9 months ago)

• 1. Old Man: (yelling at the hitchhiker and Leatherface, as they taunt Sally) You don't need to torture the girl!
  2. Hitchhiker: You just shut, remember you're just a cook! - (points to Leatherface. And me and him will handle this!
  3. Old Man: Well get on with it. I won't have this.
  4. Hitchhiker: (looks and smiles at Sally) We ain't in no hurry, cause you ain't going no place, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Sally: (tied up on a chair, crying for the Old Man) You're crazy. You got to make them stop. Please.
  2. Hitchhiker: He's nothing. He's just a cook.
  3. Old Man: (mad at the hitchhiker) Shut up you bitch hog!
  4. Hitchhiker: Me and Leaterface do all the work. He don't like it, ain't that right, You're just a cook!
  5. Old Man: (yells) Shut your mouse! (sits down) You don't understand.
  6. Hitchhiker: I understand you ain't nothing. (points to Leatherface). Me and him do all the work!
  7. Old Man: Well I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There is, just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it.
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Hitchhiker: (up in Sally's face, smiling, taunting her) You like this face?
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Sally: (tied up on a chair, crying) Please. You can make them stop!
  2. Hitchhiker: (in a mocking voice) No he can't.
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Hitchhiker: (after removing a sack from Sally's head) Oh, Oh, Ooooh! I thought you were in a hurry?!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Hitchhiker: (explaining to Franklin) See they make headcheese. They...they take the head...and they boil it. Except for the tongue...and they scrape all the flesh away from the bone. They use everything. They don't throw nothing away. They, they use the jaws, the muscles, and the eyes, and the ligaments and everything!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Hitchhiker: You could have dinner with us. You like head cheese. My brother makes it real good. You'll like it.
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Hitchhiker: (when asked a good way to slaughter a cow) The old way, with the sledge. He, he, he. See that was better. They died better that way!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)