No. The moviemakers got the idea for the Leatherface character from the real-life serial killer Ed Gein. Ed Gein lived in Wisconsin.
Ed Gein's birth name is Edward Theodore Gein.
There was no actual Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A very small part of the plot may be based on the crimes of Ed Gein in Wisconsin. If Ed was Leatherface, he died in 1984.
Google Ed Gein.
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Ed Gein was born on August 27, 1906.
Ed Gein was born on August 27, 1906.
No, but it is based on a real serial killer named Ed Gein.
The Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein stood at 5' 7".
It's a made up character, but Leatherface was based on REAL killers Ted Bundy and Jeff Dahlmer
I included the Ed Gein wikipedia article on the related links box below.
The movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre is only loosely based on Ed Gein. The main villiain, "Leatherface" wears a mask made from human skin (as did Buffalo Bill in "Silence of the Lambs"), which is one of the items discovered in Ed's Wisconsin farmhouse when he was arrested. Along with several face masks, Ed also made leggings, chest pieces, and had an assortment of female vulvas all from the flesh of corpses and victims. Ed did not use a chainsaw to dismember his victims, just large knives and chains.