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7 unusual facts about Telly "Leatherface" Blackwood


...To Be Loved

Telly "Leatherface" Blackwood known actor, producer, wrestler from MTV's Viva La Bam.

Chain Saw Confidential

Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie is a 2013 non-fiction book by actor Gunnar Hansen, who is best known for portraying Leatherface in the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Frolic through the Park

The song "Bored" was used in a scene in the 1990 movie Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.

Homelite Corporation

In addition, the XL-12 achieved infamous notoriety among horror film aficionados as being one of the chainsaws used by "Leatherface" in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series.

Jimmy Manzie

Manzie has composed for soundtracks or scores including original music for the films The FJ Holden (1977), The Offspring (1987), Stepfather II (1989), Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990, with Pat Regan), Eddie Presley (1992), Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1994) and Fear of a Black Hat (1994, with Larry Robinson).

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

The band Utter Lunacy was a one-off project made of musicians Ron Armstrong, C.C. DeVille, Marq Torien, Doane Perry, Ron Keel, Tony Palamucci, Claude Schnell, Robert Sarzo, Leah Aldridge, Tommy Bolan and Steve Ishman.

Tom Hewitt

Leatherface's real name in the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 movie and the 2006 prequel


Andrew Bryniarski

Andrew Bryniarski (born February 13, 1969) is an American actor and former bodybuilder, best known for portraying Leatherface in the remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Zangief in Street Fighter, and Steve Lattimer in The Program.

Candle in the Wind

English punk band Leatherface recorded a cover version for their second album Fill Your Boots in 1990

Fill Your Boots

Fill Your Boots is the second full-length album by English punk band Leatherface.

Frankie Stubbs

In addition to his work with Leatherface, Jesse, Pope and his solo work, he has also produced records for almost 40 other (mostly) UK bands including China Drum, Four Letter Word, Drive, Hooton 3 Car, Midway Still, Monkhouse, Snuff and Wat Tyler.

Jeff Burr

Burr attended the University of Southern California (USC) with R. A. Mihailoff who played Leatherface in Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.

Joe Unger

He is best known for his role in the 1984 horror hit film A Nightmare on Elm Street as Sgt. Garcia, and as one of Leatherface's brothers, the hook handed Tinker, who appears in Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990).

Kate Hodge

At the end of one early episode, when Randi and Professor Matheson (Neil Dickson) are pulling away in a car, she asks him if they can stop to rent Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, an in-joke and reference to Hodge's earlier movie role.

Midway Still

The album was produced by Don Fleming, and was followed by Life's Too Long in 1993 (produced by Leatherface's Frankie Stubbs).

Songs of Muerto County Revisted

The two CD version of Muerto County's 'lost' soundtrack to the classic cult horror flick The Texas Chain Saw Massacre originally a limited edition release to coincide with their tour of US Colleges and theatres with the original 'Leatherface'.

Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing

Another line "The most famous person to come out of here was the guy that played Leatherface in all of those chainsaw massacres." refers to Andrew Bryniarski, a graduate of North Penn High School in Lansdale.

The Sainte Catherines

Over the years, the band shared the stage with many established acts such as Subhumans, Leatherface, NOFX, as well as peers Anonymus, Grimskunk, Fifth Hour Hero, Inepsy, and many more.


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Aitchison College

The college was formally inaugurated by the Viceroy, the Earl of Dufferin and Ava on 3 November 1886.

Andrus, Blackwood and Company

While not songwriters themselves, Andrus and Blackwood were good judges of what CCM radio wanted, developing relationships with Bruce Hibbard, Hadley Hockensmith, Phil Johnson and Tim Sheppard among others.

Boyd Estus

An Academy Award winner, Boyd Estus has received numerous awards including the CINE Golden Eagle (Where the Galaxies Are, Arthur Fiedler--Just Call Me Maestro, Flight of the Gossamer Condor), Melbourne International Film Festival Kino Award (So Many Galaxies...So Little Time), the Peabody Award (NOVA, Tender Places), the Cindy, Emmy, Telly, Hugo Award, and many others.

Brian Lindstrom

He was awarded a Telly for work on The Visionaries, a PBS documentary series hosted by Sam Waterston.

Castle of Blood

A journalist challenges Edgar Allan Poe on the authenticity of his stories, which leads to him accepting a bet from Lord Blackwood to spend the night in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve.

Dalbergia melanoxylon

African Blackwood is no longer regarded as ebony, a name now reserved for a limited number of timbers yielded by the genus Diospyros; these are more of a matte appearance and are more brittle.

Small growers in Naples, Florida have been successful in growing African blackwood there.

Frederick Hamilton

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1875–1930), British soldier and Senator of the Northern Ireland Parliament

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

He served with the 9th Lancers during the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1901 and was present at the engagements at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River, Magersfonstein, the relief of Kimberley, the advance to Bloemfontein and Pretoria and the subsequent fighting in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, where he was badly wounded on Christmas Eve 1900.

Lord Dufferin was the fourth son of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.

Islwyn Borough Transport

Prior to its sale in 2010, Islwyn operated 18 local bus routes centred on Caerphilly and Blackwood, taking in Cardiff and Bargoed.

A depot in Blackwood High Street was used from 1926 to 1984, when a new depot in Pontllanfraith was opened.

James Wills

From 1822 to 1838 he lived in Dublin and wrote in the Dublin University Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals.

Jan Kochanowski

In 1574, following the decampment of Poland's recently elected King Henry of Valois (whose candidacy to the Polish throne Kochanowski had supported), Kochanowski settled on a family estate at Czarnolas ("Blackwood") to lead the life of a country squire.

Janet Elaine Paul

Booksellers and publishers Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. had, by the mid 1960s, overtaken Caxton as New Zealand’s leading publishers of poetry, and in 1968 Janet had published Glover’s Sharp Edge Up: Verses and Satires.

Jeffrey Yong

Jeffrey Yong (born November 29, 1958) is a Malaysian Luthier best known for his use of local Malaysian wood, such as Monkeypod, Rengas and Malaysian Blackwood.

Koroit

The vegetation of Tower Hill was originally a diverse collection of Manna Gum, Blackwood, Black Wattle, Swamp Gum and Drooping Sheoak.

Letters from High Latitudes

Letters From High Latitudes is a travel book written by Lord Dufferin in 1856, recounting the young lord's journey to Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen in the schooner Foam.

Luke Prokopec

Kenneth Luke Prokopec (born February 23, 1978 in Blackwood, South Australia) is an Australian-born, right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays.

Miners' institute

Slowly returning prosperity to former mining communities has witnessed a revival of some of the institutes, such as those at Blackwood, Llanhilleth and Newbridge, which have rebranded themselves as entertainment or arts centres.

Mount Worth State Park

The wet, mountain rainforest of Mountain Ash (with at least one specimen 90 metres tall, 7 metres wide and approaching 300 years old), Blackwood and Mountain Grey Gum supports a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the tree ferns, wombat, possum, platypus, Crimson Rosella, lyrebird and many others.

Mynydd y Grug

The hill is crossed by a number of public footpaths, one of which is a restricted byway linking two cul-de-sac minor roads approaching from Machen to the east and Blackwood to the north.

Nicola Blackwood

Prior to running for office, Blackwood worked with the Conservative Party Human Rights Group which was set up to find ways for the UK to combat human rights abuses in places like Burma and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and as an adviser to the then Shadow International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell.

Nina Blackwood

Blackwood has said that the 1984 John Waite hit single ""Missing You" was written about her, and that Waite has confirmed this fact.

Sarah Blackwood

The band released three albums with Blackwood on vocals: Disgraceful (1995), Goodbye (1997) and Make It Better (2000).

The Blackwood Brothers

The Blackwood Brothers can be heard singing on the radio towards the beginning of the movie Walk the Line (2005)—when Johnny Cash (played by Joaquin Phoenix) was in Memphis.

Tim Vine

Again, Vine came second, beaten by Stewart Francis in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012 with the joke "Last night me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back. Luckily I was the one facing the telly."

William Blackwood

The last member of the Blackwood family to run the company was Douglas Blackwood.

During World War II Blackwood was a fighter pilot and at the height of the Battle of Britain recalled looking down from 25,000 feet to see the firm's London office in Paternoster Row ablaze.

Zoe Gardner

In 2010 Zoe performed in Hoult's second solo show Enemy of the World and her own show An Hour of Telly Live alongside Margaret Cabourn-Smith both at the Edinburgh Festival.