Unknown Faces in Sleepy Hollow (1999)

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There are many severed heads belonging to unknown victims shown in behind the scenes features and even in the film itself. I've already focused on the head I believe belongs to the Widow Winship (see Mysterious Woman). Here I can unfortunately do little more than picture my finds.

In the Behind the Legend Featurette included on the Sleepy Hollow DVD the severed head of an unknown man is shown.


He is also seen on one of the Inkworks Trading Cards:


My sister has remarked that the head above reminds her of the actor who played the High Constable, Alun Armstrong.


 The heads pictured below were found in an interview with Kevin Yagher.

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I am assuming the one is Jonathan Masbath, yet there is another sculpt for Masbath's head (the one used in the film as he's beheaded) beside the one in this display area (as seen below).


Most interesting is the head pictured beneath this text, which possibly could be Notary Hardenbrook, given his one white eye. Unless the sculpt was a test of some sort, it seems to indicate that at one time there was another actor in the role.


02/19/19 Edit: The head in the photo above belongs to the body Ichabod found in the Hudson river at the beginning of the film.

The video of Kevin Yagher's interview in which the heads pictured above appear can be found here:




The heads above, within the Tree of the Dead, are also from the Behind the Legend Featurette. Among them we can see the same heads as those from Kevin Yagher's interview, the possible Masbath. Pictured also is the stranger addressed at the start of this page.

Of a different chain but similar link is the following photo of young Thomas Killian as seen on the Inkworks trading cards. If he is the same actor (Sean Stephens) he does at least have a different hairstyle.




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