Friday the 13th Actors Who Have Passed Away
by Lebowskidoo | created - 10 Jul 2020 | updated - 01 Apr 2023 | Public
1. Betsy Palmer
Actress | Friday the 13th
Betsy Palmer was probably best known for playing Jason Voorhees' mother in the horror film Friday the 13th (1980), but her career as an actress began many years before.
Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Indiana, to Marie (née Love), who launched the Chicago Business College, and...
Natural Causes
2. Willie Adams
Actor | Friday the 13th
Willie Adams was born on September 4, 1954. He was an actor, known for Friday the 13th (1980). He died on May 21, 1993 in California, USA.
Car Accident
3. Laurie Bartram
Actress | Friday the 13th
Laurie Bartram was born on May 16, 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Friday the 13th (1980), Emergency! (1972) and Another World (1964). She was married to Gregory McCauley. She died on May 25, 2007 in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA.
Cancer
4. Dominick Brascia
Actor | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Dominick Brascia was born on April 6, 1957 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985), Evil Laugh (1986) and Hard Rock Nightmare (1988). He died on November 26, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA.
Natural Causes
5. Richard Brooker
Actor | Friday the 13th Part III
Discovered by a casting magazine "Dramalogue" for the role of mindless killer Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982), Richard Brooker also gained the supporting role of the warrior Oghris in "Deathstalker" (1983). It was the only acting experience of Brooker, who later started creating ...
Heart Attack
6. John Carl Buechler
Special_effects | Hatchet
When he ran the make-up effects department at New World Pictures, Roger Corman called John Carl Buechler "...the best in the business..." An actor, writer, producer, director, special effects artist, he was always in love with filmmaking, and was the first person in history to make his way into the...
Cancer
7. Gloria Charles
Actress | Friday the 13th Part III
Gloria Charles was born on March 3, 1955 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982), Brewster's Millions (1985) and National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985). She died on December 8, 2016 in Marina Del Ray, California, USA(undisclosed).
Heart Attack
8. Steve Dash
Stunts | Nine 1/2 Weeks
Steve Dash was born on March 14, 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for 9½ Weeks (1986), Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and Equalizer 2000 (1987). He was married to Loretta Fountain. He died on December 18, 2018 in Florida, USA.
Diabetes
9. Travis Davis
Actor | 12 Rounds
Davis is enjoying his 9th year in L.A. as a full-time actor, doing everything from film, TV, theater, & commercials, to stand-up comedy, to hosting, and even voice-overs through the William Morris Agency in Los Angeles. It's in the accumulation of this work that Davis finds himself in that odd but ...
Cancer
10. Rex Everhart
Actor | Friday the 13th
Rex Everhart was born on June 13, 1920 in Watseka, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Friday the 13th (1980), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Superman (1978). He was married to Claire Richard. He died on March 13, 2000 in Branford, Connecticut, USA.
Cancer
11. Sally Anne Golden
Actress | Friday the 13th
Sally Anne Golden was born on July 31, 1910. She was an actress, known for Friday the 13th (1980), Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) and The Wanderers (1979). She died on January 29, 1982 in New York City, New York, USA.
Undisclosed
12. Walt Gorney
Actor | Friday the 13th
Character actor Walt Gorney was born on April 12, 1912 in Vienna, Austria. He came to the United States when he was ten years old and lived with his family in Massachusetts. He had at least three younger sisters. In 1946, Gorney moved to an apartment in Greenwich Village in New York City. Walt ...
Natural Causes
13. Alex Green
Stunts | Shanghai Noon
Alex Green was born on January 19, 1942 in Australia. He was an actor, known for Shanghai Noon (2000), Paycheck (2003) and The Mask of Zorro (1998). He died on July 20, 2010 in British Columbia, Canada.
Cancer
14. James Isaac
Director | Pig Hunt
James Isaac was born on June 5, 1960 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a director, known for Pig Hunt (2008), Jason X (2001) and eXistenZ (1999). He was married to Harriet Isaac. He died on May 6, 2012 in Sausalito, California, USA.
Multiple Myeloma
15. Leslie Jordan
Actor | The Help
For such a diminutive (4' 11") frame, character actor Leslie (Allen) Jordan had a tall talent for scene-stealing. Hailing from the South, as his dead-giveaway drawl quickly exposed, he was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 29, 1955, and raised in a highly conservative, deeply religious ...
Heart Disease
16. Irwin Keyes
Actor | The Flintstones
Large (6'1"), affable, and commanding character actor Irwin Keyes was born on March 16, 1952 in New York City. Keyes grew up in Amityville, New York and graduated from Amityville Memorial High School in 1970. He acted in his first play "The Lower Depths" by Maxim Grody while attending college. ...
Acromegaly
17. Paul Lukather
Actor | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
A distinguished actor, with a highly-respectable veteran status for his vast array of work across the acting stage, television and quite notably in voice-over work, Paul Lukather did it all. After his training in drama school, Paul began his career touring with the Barter Theatre as MacBeth. Across...
Undisclosed
18. Tom McBride
Actor | Friday the 13th Part 2
Tom McBride was born on October 7, 1952 in Charleston, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) and As the World Turns (1956). He died on September 24, 1995 in New York City, New York, USA.
AIDS
19. Ron Palillo
Actor | Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI
At 14, Ron Palillo (born Ronald Gabriel Paolillo) started his own summer theater in Cheshire, Connecticut. His parents, Gabriel and Carmel Paolillo, were surprised when the summer theater actually made money. After graduating from high school, Ron went to the University of Connecticut at Storrs, ...
Heart Attack
20. Robert Perault
Actor | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Robert Perault was born on July 31, 1946 in Vailsburg, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), All My Children (1970) and The Hidden (1987). He died on January 2, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Undisclosed
21. Antony Ponzini
Actor | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Antony Ponzini was born on June 1, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Hardbodies (1984) and Remington Steele (1982). He died on December 30, 2002 in Moosup, Connecticut, USA.
Undisclosed
22. Steve Susskind
Actor | Monsters, Inc.
Steve Susskind was born on October 3, 1942 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Monsters, Inc. (2001), Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982) and House (1985). He was married to Ann Patricia Walker. He died on January 21, 2005 in Tujunga, California, USA.
Car Accident
23. Mark Venturini
Actor | The Return of the Living Dead
Mark Venturini was born on January 10, 1961 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) and Knight Rider (1982). He died on February 14, 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Leukemia
24. Perla Walter
Actress | Friday the 13th Part III
Perla Walter was born on January 24, 1933 in Nueva Gerona, Isla de Pinos, Cuba. She was an actress, known for Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982), The Man with Two Brains (1983) and Savage Streets (1984). She died on May 19, 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Undisclosed
25. Mika Ward
Actress | Jason X
Mika Ward was born on October 31, 1973. She was an actress, known for Jason X (2001), Mimic (1997) and Lexx (1996). She died on April 30, 2012.
Undisclosed
26. Vernon Washington
Actor | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Samuel "Vernon" Washington was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the 8th child of Benjamin and Olive Evans of Dinwiddie County, Virginia and Fredrick, Maryland, respectively. On checking a perpetual Calendar, we learned that Vernon was born on Friday, and according to the nursery rhyme, Friday's child...
Undisclosed
27. Ted White
Actor | Starman
Ted White was born on January 25, 1926 in Krebs, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Starman (1984), Romancing the Stone (1984) and Escape from New York (1981). He was married to Jerilyn White. He died on October 14, 2022 in California, USA.
Natural Causes
28. Rosemary Knower
Actress | Friday the 13th
Rosemary Knower was born on July 1, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for Friday the 13th (2009), Live Free or Die Hard (2007) and Serial Mom (1994). She died on March 27, 2019 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, USA.
Undisclosed
29. Ric Mancini
Actor | Ghostbusters
Ric Mancini was born on April 16, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) and Ed Wood (1994). He was married to Marilyn Chris. He died on May 26, 2006 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
Undisclosed
30. Abigail Shelton
Actress | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Abigail Shelton was born on May 3, 1932 in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) and Zig Zag (1970). She was married to William S. Baker, John T. Kelley, Brandon Carroll and Hubert Allen Clarke Jr.. She ...
Undisclosed
31. David Wiley
Actor | Friday the 13th Part III
David Wiley was born on July 26, 1929 in Portsmouth, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982), Jagged Edge (1985) and Society (1989). He died on February 5, 2007 in Northridge, California, USA.
Cancer
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