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Played by Jim Siedow, Drayton Sawyer is the eldest brother of the Sawyer clan in the first two Texas Chainsaw Massacre films. Drayton was originally a gas station owner, but the intense police investigation following Sally Hardesty's escape forced him to abandon that job. After he and his family moved to an abandoned amusement park near Dallas, he expanded his culinary skills and eventually became an award-winning chili and barbecue cook. Unbeknownst to his customers, however, the meats he sells are made of the people his brother Leatherface kills, skins, and cuts up. In order to keep this truth from being known, he dismisses the teeth and bone fragments occasionally found in his meat as hard-shelled peppercorns.

Drayton adopts a folksy persona while in public but in reality is a severely unstable person who berates his brothers non-stop, rants at great length about money and the plight of the small businessman, and occasionally brings people "home for dinner". However, he has said he takes no pleasure in killing (though he seems to enjoy beating people), which is why he leaves that duty to his demented siblings.

Apparently, the police crackdown hardened him somewhat. In the original film, Drayton was the most "normal" of the family and was slightly troubled by the murders his brothers committed, switching between telling them to get it over with quickly and cheering them on; however, in the second one he fully supports them and is a full-bore lunatic.

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