Edwin Neal

Edwin Neal
Marilyn Burns, Teri McMinn, William Vail, Ed Neal, John Dugan, Ed Guinn, Allen Danziger from the TCM panel at Days of the Dead Indianapolis 2012.
Born	(1945-07-12) July 12, 1945 (age 71) Houston, Texas
Residence	Austin, Texas
Occupation	Actor
Children	6

Edwin Neal (born July 12, 1945) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Nubbins Sawyer (the Hitchhiker) in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. He has been a top voice talent and actor for years appearing on screen and off in such diverse projects as The Lord of the Rings game providing four voices including the Villains. Three voices in Wii's Metroid Prime 3 and many more. He has worked with Oliver Stone on JFK and is Doctor Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie. He set a record doing 26 different voices in the only completely unedited version of all 103 episodes of Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets), which included the lead villain Berg Katse. Neal also provides three voices in the Batman DC Universe Online game; those of Two-Face, Killer Croc, and Harvey Bullock.

Born in Houston, Texas, Neal, after high school, studied at Lon Morris college in Jacksonville, Texas, before moving on to acting and directing studies at the University of Texas at Austin. While there, Neal auditioned for the role of the Hitchhiker in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and got it. He has said that when auditioning he acted as an eccentric relative of his. The movie went on to become a cult classic.