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Tobe Hooper: Biography

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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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