Editing Tobe Hooper (section)

==Early life==
Hooper was born January 25, 1943, in [[Austin, Texas]],<ref>{{cite book|title=501 Movie Directors|editor-first=Steven Jay|editor-last=Schneider|publisher=Cassell Illustrated|location=London|year=2007|page=466|isbn=9781844035731|oclc=1347156402}}</ref> to Lois Belle (''née'' Crosby) and Norman William Ray Hooper, who owned a theater in [[San Angelo, Texas|San Angelo]]. The film ''[[The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]'' explores [[Stereotypes of white Americans|hicksploitation]] themes related to his childhood.<ref name=guardianobit>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/28/tobe-hooper-obituary|title=Tobe Hooper obituary|last=Gilbey|first=Ryan|date=August 28, 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418145029/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/28/tobe-hooper-obituary|archive-date=April 18, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> He first became interested in filmmaking when he used his father's [[8 mm film|8&nbsp;mm]] camera at the age of nine. He went to college at the University of Texas, Austin. He was present at the college on August 1, 1966, when [[Charles Whitman]] opened fire on random people from the University's clock tower, fatally shooting a police officer that was close by Hooper.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zwilling |first1=Marcia |title=Tobe Hooper's Austin youth shaped 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2017/08/29/commentary-tobe-hooper-s-austin/6720832007/ |work=Austin-American Statesman |date=August 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205084030/https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2017/08/29/commentary-tobe-hooper-s-austin/6720832007/ |archive-date=December 5, 2022}}</ref>