Tobe Hooper

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  • Birth Name: William Tobe Hooper
  • Birth Place: Austin, TX
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 01/25/1943, Aquarius
  • Profession: Director; writer; producer; composer
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Tobe Hooper Fast Facts:
  • Worked as a professor and film-program assistant director at the University of Texas, as well as a documentary cameraman, before moving into directing.
  • Debut feature was the 1974 cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which carried a budget of under $85,000, but made more than $30 million.
  • Has directed episodes of the sci-fi/horror anthology series Tales from the Crypt, Night Visions and Masters of Horror.
  • Received the New York City Horror Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Philadelphia Film Festival's Phantasmagoria Award, both in 2004.
  • In 2011, published the novel Midnight Movie, written with Alan Goldsher, about a character named Tobe Hooper whose long-lost student film, Destiny Express, turns its audience into zombies.
  • Tobe Hooper Relationships:
  • Tony Hooper - Son
  • Norman W.R. Hooper - Father
  • Lois (Crosby) Hooper - Mother
  • Marcia Zwilling-Hooper - Wife
  • William Hooper - Son
  • College:
  • Attended University of Texas, Austin, TX
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