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name: "Joe Unger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-unger"
roles: []
born: "25 May 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-18T07:51:40.737953+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Joe Unger

Actor. Born 25 May 1949 in Lake County, Tennessee, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 25 May 1949, Lake County, Tennessee, USA
- **Active:** 1984–1990
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 83 (1), 1990s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6212760, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0881161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13661

## Biography

Joe Unger is an American actor. He was born on 25 May 1949 in Lake County, Tennessee.

His first feature film role was as Lieutenant Raymond Hamilton in *Go Tell the Spartans* (1978). He played Sergeant Garcia in *A Nightmare on Elm Street* (1984) and Tinker in *Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III* (1990). Other film credits include *Escape from New York* (1981), *Road House* (1989) and additional voices in *Total Recall* (1990). He has also appeared in television series such as *The A-Team* (1983) and *Criminal Minds* (2008).

Unger provided the voice of Joe the Vampire Hunter in the Adult Swim series *Mary Shelley's Frankenhole* (2010–2012).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Total Recall* (1990), Fi1m 84, as Additional Voices (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/total-recall.md)
- *A Nightmare on Elm Street* (1984), Fi1m 83, as Sergeant Garcia — [page](https://film.one/film/a-nightmare-on-elm-street.md)

## Also known for

- *Escape from New York* (1981), Taylor
- *The Bodyguard* (1992), Journalist
- *Road House* (1989), Karpis
- *The A-Team* (1983), Sheriff Deputy
- *Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III* (1990), Tinker
- *Walker, Texas Ranger* (1993), Murphy
- *Mask* (1985), 1st Boyfriend
- *Airwolf* (1984), Mickey

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