Jim Siedow

James Nash Jim Siedow Born June 12 1920 November 20 2003 was an American actor best known for his role of Drayton The Cook Sawyer in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its sequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Siedow was born in Cheyenne Wyoming He began acting in his high school drama class and later on moved to New York City New York where he started appearing in theatre productions During World War II Siedow served with the Army Air Corps and after the war Siedow moved to Chicago Illinois and started doing radio work In September 1946 he met and married an actress named Ruth his wife up to his death They had three children They moved to Houston Texas soon after their marriage where Siedow continued acting creating one of Houstons original local community theatres He directed Houstons first production of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee In 1971 Siedow appeared in his first movie an obscure one titled The Windsplitter playing a character named Mr Smith He followed this with his most famous role as Drayton Sawyer in the cult film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974 His other movie roles were as Howard Ives in the TV movie Red Alert in 1977 an unnamed role in the 1980 movie Hotwire and as Drayton Sawyer again in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 the sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre