Jim Siedow Biography

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Jim Siedow (June 12, 1920 - November 20, 2003) was an American actor, best known for his role in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Siedow was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He began acting in his high school drama class, and later on, moved to New York City, New York, where he started appearing in theatre productions. During World War II, Siedow served with the Army Air Corps, and after the war, Siedow moved to Chicago, Illinois and started doing radio work. In September 1946, he met and married an actress named Ruth, his wife up to his death. They had three children.

They moved to Houston, Texas soon after their marriage where Siedow continued acting, creating one of Houston's original local community theatres. He directed Houston's first production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. In 1971, Siedow appeared in his first movie, an obscure one titled The Windsplitter, playing a character named Mr Smith. He followed this with his most famous role as Drayton Sawyer (Old Man) in the cult film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974.

His other movie roles were as Howard Ives in the TV movie Red Alert in 1977, an unnamed role in the 1980 movie Hotwire, and as Drayton Sawyer, again, in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, the sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Siedow died in Houston from emphysema complications.

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• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: I thought you took care of her already.
  2. Chop-Top: Yeah well, Leatherface killed her once already, but LOOK! She's Red-faced. Oh, Bubba's been playing with her, Bubba likes her. Bubba's got a girlfriend!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Rocky F (2 months ago)

• 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. Old Man: Where are the children? Did they get away?
  2. Leatherface: Uh-uh. Uh-uh.
  3. Old Man: (yells) Are you sure?
  4. Leatherface: Uh huh, uh huh.
  5. Old Man: (calms down, but then thinks for a second) You, you damn fool. You ruined the door!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Old Man: (after seeing chainsaw marks on the door) Look what your brother did to the door!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Old Man: (laughs while poking Sally in his truck with a stick) I hope you're not too uncomfortable down there.
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: Small businessman that always, always, always gets it in the ass! Sure took care of my hems. Saved a trip to the hospital!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: Let's make a deal right here. Real cash money, you and me, huh? (Shouts) - I don't care who sent you!
  2. Lt. "Lefty" Enright: I'm the Lord of the Harvest!
  3. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: What's that...some new health food bunch?
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: You coonshits, you fudge packers, you'll be the death of me yet! Ha, ha, ha, ha!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: Damn property taxes f**k up everything.
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: Some kind of crazy booger just skipped through here.
  2. Chop-Top: No, a booger? How big? - (mimicking his corpse puppet's voice) A big crazy booger. Let's haul butt, bro.
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: (looking for a grenade on a corpse) Where's that old 'f**k you' Charlie?
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: Who's this? I get it. Are you the saboteur that's fucking up our house?
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: You have one choice, boy: sex or the saw. Sex is, well, nobody knows. But the saw, the saw is family.
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: There's no secret. It's the meat. Don't skimp on the meat. I got a real good eye for prime meat. It runs in the family... I gotta say - I love this town. This town loves prime meat!
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Drayton Sawyer the Cook: You're the first girl Bubba's brought home to dinner.
  From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)