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.

KNOWN FOR

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974
Texas Chainsaw 3D
2013
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1995
The American Nightmare
2000
Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
2024
Deviant Behavior
2018
Lookout Weekend: Cruel Summer IV
2025
The Once and Future Smash
2022
Rock, Paper, Scissors
2019
Shudder
2007
Rondo and Bob
2020
Skate to Hell
2026

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
33
2026
Skate to Hell
as Pauly
2025
Lookout Weekend: Cruel Summer IV
as John
2024
Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
as Grandpa Higgins
2024
Cruel Summer III: Pray for Fall
as Saxon
2024
Dinner with Leatherface
as Self
2023
Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors
as Self
2022
The Macabre
as Mr. Macabre
2022
The Once and Future Smash
as John Dugan
2022
Attack of the Killer Chickens: The Movie
as Prime Minister Dugan
2022
Harlow's Haunt
as Harlow Greer
2021
Holy Shit Man!
as Actor (voice)
2020
Harp Brothers
as Major William Love
2020
Rondo and Bob
as Self
2019
Rock, Paper, Scissors
as Uncle Charles
2018
Deviant Behavior
as Murphy
2016
Belly Timber
as Grandpa McCormick
2015
The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company
as Col. Talaska (Voice)
2015
Bite School
as Henry
2015
Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran
as Self
2014
All Sinner's Night
as Vietnam Veteran
2014
The Boogeyman
as Dr. Harper
2013
Texas Chainsaw 3D
as Grandfather
2013
Butcher Boys
as Clerk
2013
The Hospital
as Officer Chapman
2008
Hell-ephone
as Captain of the Guard
2007
Shudder
as Wilkes
2000
The American Nightmare
as Self
1995
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
as Cop at Hospital
1988
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait
as Himself
1980
Double Exposure
as Neil
1974
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
as Grandfather
Great White Throne Judgment
as God
The Mangled
as Uncle Bates