Anyone who’s ever seen the movie The Program is well aware of who Andrew Bryniarski is. He’s the jacked guy that played the ‘roided up Lattimer. For later generations of movie goers Bryniarski also played Leatherface in the 2006 Texas Chainsaw massacre remake. Andrew Bryniarski is known particularly for playing imposing “muscular” roles which makes perfect sense given he’s 6’ 5″ and a former bodybuilder. He came to Hollywood for a short summer vacation to visit a friend, was spotted by a talent scout who set up a screen test for Joel Silver, and all of a sudden he was acting alongside Bruce Willis and James Coburn in Hudson Hawk (1991).
Since then, Andrew has worked with Al Pacino, James Woods, Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry, and Cuba Gooding Jr. to mention just a few, as well as Hong Kong’s best including Hark Tsui and Woo-Ping Yuen. His film work includes Pearl Harbor (2001), Tim Burton’s Batman Returns (1992), Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday (1999), Rollerball (2002), Scooby-Doo (2002), Street Fighter (1994), The Program (1993), and John Singleton’s Higher Learning (1995).
While he’ll always go down as Lattimer to me and all my fellow late 30s dudes out there, we’ll always remember him as Knocko from Higher Learning, Zangief in Street Fighter and even that funny cowboy football player in Necessary Roughness. Bryniarski is still shooting movies and at the age of 48, is still a huge dude. Anyway, in case you were wondering what Lattimer’s real name was, there you go. And of course we have a clip of him as Lattimer:
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