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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2024Dinner with Leatherface — Self
• 2023Stale Popcorn & Sticky Floors — Self
• 2020Rondo and Bob — Self
• 2015Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran — Self
• 2000The American Nightmare — Self
• 1988The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait — Himself