Joseph Unger (born May 25, 1949) is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television. He is best known for his role in Wes Craven's 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).
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Early life
Unger was born and raised in Lake County, Tennessee in the United States of America.
Career
His first feature movie was in the 1978 movie Go Tell the Spartans. His other films include Escape from New York (1981), Mask (1985), Barfly (1987), Road House (1989), he did a voice in the 1990 hit science fiction Total Recall.
Unger has made many guest appearances on TV shows, some of those appearances range from The A-Team, Alice, Airwolf, Cagney & Lacey, The Pretender, and Carnivàle.
Unger provided the voice of "Joe the Vampire Hunter" on the Adult Swim series Mary Shelley's Frankenhole.
Filmography
1978 Go Tell the Spartans as Lieutenant Raymound Hamilton
1979 Fast Charlie... The Moonbeam Rider as The Bank Teller
1981 Escape from New York as Bill Taylor (scenes deleted)
1984 National Lampoon's Joy of Sex as Mr. Ranada
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street as Sergeant Garcia
1985 Mask as 1st Boyfriend
1985 UFOria as Gas Station Attendant
1986 The Deliberate Stranger (Direct-to-Television Film) as Unknown
1986 Stagecoach (Direct-to-Television Film) as Captain Sickels
1987 Barfly as Ben
1987 Carly's Web (Direct-to-Television Film) as Unknown
1988 Lucky Stiff as Kirby
1989 Checking Out as Joe
1989 Road House as Karpis
1990 Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III as Tinker "Tink" Sawyer
1990 Total Recall as Additional Voices (voice)
1992 The Bodyguard as Journalist
1992 Love Field as The Announcer
1994 Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (Direct-to-Video Film) as Ernst
1995 Night of the Scarecrow as Deputy #2
1997 Drive as Waterfront Bartender
1997 The Bad Pack as Fight Promoter
1997 American Hero as Kipper
1998 Spoiler as Clemets
1998 Together & Alone as Roscoe
1999 Natural Selection as Detective Harry Richards
1999 Black and White as Charlie Sanders
2000 South of Heaven, West of Hell as Nogales Sanches
2000 Stranger than Fiction as Bubba
2004 Death and Texas as Prison Guard
2005 The Circle as The Motel Owner
2006 The Visitation as Matt Kiley
2006 Altered as Mr. Towne
2007 Cold Ones as Hud
2007 Broke Sky as Earl
2007 Moving McAllister as Lanky
2008 South of Heaven as "Rooster"
2009 Sutures as Sheriff Baxter
2010 Closed for the Season as The Carny
2014 In Your Eyes as Wayne